Standups Comedy Central Want
by kurtmulgrove | created - 24 Jun 2022 | updated - 24 Jun 2022 | PublicComedy Central are guaranteed to find themselves in tough competition with Netflix for in demand talents. Here are 25 of them.
1. Jerrod Carmichael
Producer | On the Count of Three
Jerrod Carmichael was born on April 6, 1987 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for On the Count of Three (2021), 8 (2017) and The Carmichael Show (2015).
2. Jo Koy
Actor | Haunted Mansion
As one of today's premiere stand-up comics Jo Koy has come a long way from his modest beginnings performing at a Las Vegas coffee house. The comedian, who pulls inspiration from his family, specifically his son, sells-out arenas and theaters across the world.
In 2017, Koy broke a record for the most...
3. Amy Schumer
Writer | Trainwreck
Amy Beth Schumer is an American comedian, writer and actress from Manhattan who is known for Trainwreck, Last Comic Standing, Snatched, Expecting Amy, Price Check, I Feel Pretty, The Humans and Inside Amy Schumer. She is married to chef Chris Fischer and had a son. Slated to appear as the iconic ...
4. Charlie Clark
Actor | Worst Date, Best Date
Stand-up comedian and actor, Charlie Clark, was born and raised in the historic naval city of Portsmouth, England. He is a Stella Adler Academy of Acting alumnus and popular fixture on the Los Angeles comedy scene. Before entering the world of entertainment, Charlie made his living working as a ...
5. Jessica Kirson
Actress | The King of Staten Island
Jessica Kirson is known for The King of Staten Island (2020), School Dance (2014) and The Comedian (2016).
6. Kevin James
Actor | Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Kevin James was born Kevin George Knipfing on April 26, 1965, in Mineola, Long Island, New York, to Janet (Klein), an office worker, and Joseph Valentine Knipfing, Jr., an insurance agency owner. He was raised in Stony Brook, and attended SUNY Cortland, where he played fullback on the football team...
7. Ali Wong
Producer | Ali Wong: Baby Cobra
Ali Wong was born on April 19, 1982 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (2016), Always Be My Maybe (2019) and Beef (2023). She has been married to Justin Hakuta since November 27, 2014. They have two children.
8. Chelsea Handler
Actress | This Means War
Chelsea Handler was born in Livingston, New Jersey, to a Mormon mother, Rita (Stoecker), who was born in Germany, and an American-born Jewish father, Seymour Handler. She was the youngest of six children. In 2002, Chelsea was one of the stars of Oxygen's Girls Behaving Badly (2002). Chelsea got her...
9. Tiffany Haddish
Actress | Girls Trip
Tiffany Sara Cornilia Haddish is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2018, and The Hollywood Reporter listed her among the 100 most powerful people in entertainment in both 2018 and 2019.
After ...
10. Dax Shepard
Self | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Dax Randall Shepard was born in 1975 in Milford, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, to Laura (LaBo), who worked at GM, and Dave Robert Shepard, Sr., a car salesman. His mother is of French-Canadian and Belgian descent. With both his parents working in the automotive industry, Dax's first love was cars.
...
11. Ronny Chieng
Actor | M3GAN
Ronny Chieng is a Chinese comedian and actor born in Malaysia and raised in New Hampshire and Singapore. He started performing stand-up in 2009 after graduating with a dual degree in Law and Commerce from The University of Melbourne, Australia. His act caught the attention of the esteemed Montreal ...
12. Iliza Shlesinger
Actress | Spenser Confidential
Iliza Vie Shlesinger is an American comedian, actress and television host. She was the 2008 winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing and went on to host the syndicated dating show Excused and the TBS game show Separation Anxiety. In 2017, Shlesinger hosted her own late-night talk show called Truth & ...
13. Bobby Lee
Actor | A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
Bobby Lee was born on September 17, 1972 in San Diego, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011), Mad TV (1995) and Paul (2011).
14. Shane Gillis
Actor | Gilly and Keeves
Shane Gillis is a stand-up comic based out of New York City, recently named an "Up-Next" Comic at Comedy Central's 2019 Clusterfest in San Francisco and a "New Face" at Just For Laughs in Montreal. Winner of Philly's Funniest at Helium Comedy Club in 2016, Shane is a regular guest on Sirius XM and ...
15. Rick Glassman
Actor | Undateable
Rick Glassman was born on July 23, 1984 in Orange, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Undateable (2014), A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) and The Sixth Lead (2015).
16. Stavros Halkias
Actor | Exit Statement
Stavros Halkias is known for Exit Statement, Inspector Ike (2020) and Dance Freak. He has been married to Adam Frieldand since April 20, 2020.
17. Kumail Nanjiani
Actor | The Big Sick
Kumail Nanjiani was born on May 2, 1978 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He is an actor and writer, known for The Big Sick (2017), Life as We Know It (2010) and Stuber (2019). He has been married to Emily V. Gordon since July 14, 2007.
18. Sarah Silverman
Actress | Wreck-It Ralph
Sarah Silverman was most recently the host of the two-time Emmy-nominated weekly topical series, I Love You America, which streamed on Hulu and also received a Writers Guild Awards nomination.
Silverman is currently working on a musical adaptation of her 2010 memoir and New York Times Bestseller ...
19. Ali Macofsky
Actor | Dag and Badam
Ali Macofsky was born on September 8, 1995 in Torrance, California, USA. She is known for her work on Dag and Badam (2018), The Jim Jefferies Show (2017) and Straight Up, Stand Up (2018). At a young age, Ali guest-starred on KIIS FM alongside Ryan Seacrest where she prank called listeners as her ...
20. Rachel Sennott
Actress | Shiva Baby
She graduated from Simsbury High School in 2014 after high school; she continued her study with acting at NYU Tisch. She graduated from college in 2017. She became interested in comedy as a freshman in college and started to perform comedy at open mic nights, as well as acting in student films.
21. Andrew Santino
Actor | Ricky Stanicky
Andrew Santino was born on October 16, 1983 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Ricky Stanicky (2024), Game Over, Man! (2018) and The Disaster Artist (2017).
22. Aziz Ansari
Actor | Parks and Recreation
Aziz Ansari was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Fatima, a medical office worker, and Shoukath, a gastroenterologist. His family is from Tamil Nadu, India. He graduated from NYU as a business major in 2004. He graduated from the South Carolina Governor's School for Math and Science in ...
23. Trevor Noah
Producer | The Daily Show
Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, television host, actor, and political commentator. He is the host of The Daily Show, an American satirical news program on Comedy Central.
Born in Johannesburg, Noah began his career in South Africa in 2002. He had several hosting roles with the South African...
24. Mark Normand
Actor | Horace and Pete
Mark Normand is known for his "relentlessly punchy writing and expert delivery" (The Laugh Button) that has made him an internationally known touring comedian. 2016 has included multiple appearances on Louis CK's "Horace and Pete", an appearance on Seeso's "What's Your F@%king Deal?!", a stand-up ...
25. Randall Park
Actor | WandaVision
Randall Park is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Korean parents, and graduated from the Humanities Magnet Program at Hamilton High School. Park went on to receive a Bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing and a Master's degree ...
Tell Your Friends