Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Loretta Mary Aiken (March 19, 1897 [1] – May 23, 1975), [2] known by her stage name Jackie "Moms" Mabley, was an American stand-up comedian and actress. Mabley began her career on the theater stage in the 1920s and became a veteran entertainer of the Chitlin' Circuit of black vaudeville.
Suzanne Westenhoefer (born March 31, 1961, in Columbia, Pennsylvania) is an American out lesbian stand-up comedian. [1] She starred as a panelist on GSN's 2006 remake of I've Got a Secret, which featured a panel of gay celebrities who had to guess the various guests' 'secrets' through a series of timed questions.
Stand-up comedy has roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century, including vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, concert saloons, freak shows, variety shows, medicine shows, American burlesque, English music halls, circus clown antics, Chautauqua, and humorist monologues like those delivered by Mark Twain in his first (1866 ...
Every Black actor and actress, director and comedian stands on the shoulders of those who paved the way for future generations. In honor of Black History Month, ET is celebrating some of the ...
This page was last edited on 24 September 2024, at 18:37 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.
Cameron Anne Young Anastasia Esposito (born October 17, 1981) is an American actress, comedian, and podcaster known for her [a] show Take My Wife, as well as her stand-up comedy and her podcast, Queery.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American stand-up comedians. It includes stand-up comedians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to African American stand-up comedians .