Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 236. Chapters: Woody Allen, Rosie O'Donnell, Jack Benny, Jon Stewart, Kathy Griffin, Roseanne Barr, Robin Williams, George Carlin, Johnny Carson, Steve Martin, Drew Carey, Jim Carrey, Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Bill Maher, Milton Berle, George Burns, Sarah Silverman, Richard Pryor, Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Dunham, Jamie Foxx, Andy Kaufman, Jerry Seinfeld, Margaret Cho, Donald Glover, Dennis Miller, Lenny Bruce, Denis Leary, Bob Newhart, Bo Burnham, Jay Leno, Paul F. Tompkins, Chris Rock, Dick Cavett, Bill Hicks, Craig Ferguson, Dee Bradley Baker, Judd Apatow, Joan Rivers, Janeane Garofalo, Artie Lange, Tom Kenny, Soupy Sales, Greg Giraldo, David Cross, Phyllis Diller. Excerpt: Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician whose career spans over half a century. He began as a comedy writer in the 1950s, penning jokes and scripts for television and also publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Allen started performing as a stand-up comic, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes. As a comic, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he insists is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics, while a UK survey ranked Allen as the third greatest comedian. By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into more dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the 1970s. He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late '70s. Allen often stars in his own films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. Some of the best-known of his...