#comedianne

[craigfernandez]

[doculicious]

Who is Emmy winner Quinta Brunson ... besides the woman who had to step over Kimmel?

Brunson had already made history when she was nominated for three Emmys for Abbott Elementary

Congratulations Quinta Brunson.  I love her show Abbot Elementary.

[rhyme-without-reason]

[cinemasentries]

Amy Schumer

[starsberrisnunicorns]

She wild 🤣 🤣 🤣 Happy Birthday Issa Rae! 🎂💜

[haitianculture509]

[janieunknownwriter]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJS670okmZc)The Magnificent Mae West 

[20th-century-personalities]

Mitzi McCall in 1955

The comedy team of Mitzi McCall and her husband, Charles Brill, had a successful career. They performed in nightclubs and on television.

But one single appearance television appearance remained an indelible memory for the couple: It was the night the Beatles made their American TV debut, February 9 1964.

After the Beatles’ first set, the mix of entertainers was as varied as it always was on the Sullivan show: Fred Kaps, a Dutch magician; the cast of the Broadway musical “Oliver!” (which included a then-unknown Davy Jones, soon to be a member of the Monkees); the impressionist Frank Gorshin; the music-hall singer and actress Tessie O’Shea; and, finally, McCall & Brill.

Their three-and-a-half minutes in the national spotlight came moments before the Beatles returned for their second set - and that is all the audience of teenage girls cared about.

Their comedy sketch fell bombed - in front of 73 million viewers.

When Mr. Sullivan didn’t call them over after their performance to congratulate them, they knew they had failed, swallowed up in early Beatlemania.

Their agent did not call them for six months. But their career eventually recovered.