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Blake Anderson is an American actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter, and fashion designer. Starting in 2006, he helped create and join the sketch-comedy troupe Mail Order Comedy, which produced online videos and sketches, along with co-members Anders Holm, Adam DeVine, and Kyle Newacheck.

Pablo Francisco is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He started his career doing improv in Tempe, Arizona. In the 1990s, Pablo appeared on MADtv as a featured player.

David Blaine is an American illusionist, endurance artist, and extreme performer. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance and has set and broken several world records.

Jim Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, and artist. Known for his energetic slapstick performances, he first gained recognition in 1990, after landing a role in the American sketch comedy television series In Living Color.

Ben Elton is an English comedian, actor, author, playwright, lyricist, and director. He served as part of London’s alternative comedy movement of the 1980s. Later, Ben became a writer on the sitcoms The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television.

Kate McKinnon is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She became known for her character work and celebrity impressions on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022.

Katherine Parkinson is an English actress. She appeared in Channel 4’s The IT Crowd comedy series as Jen Barber. Katherine received a British Comedy Best TV Actress Award in 2009 and 2014 and was nominated twice for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, winning in 2014.

John C Reilly is an American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and writer. After his film debut in Casualties of War in 1989, he gained exposure through his supporting roles in Days of Thunder, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, and The River Wild.

Matt Berry is an English actor, comedian, musician, and writer. He is best known for his roles in comedy series such as The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, and Toast of London, the last of which he also co-created.

Jamie Demetriou is an English comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Bus Rodent in Fleabag and for creating, co-writing, and starring in Stath Lets Flats. For the latter, Jamie won Best Male Actor in a Comedy, Best Writer of a Comedy, and Best Scripted Comedy at the 2020 BAFTA Awards.