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PAUL REISER
Saturday Night Reiser has been voted one of the Comedy Club’s Top 100 Comedians of all time. He co-created and starred in the critically-acclaimed NBC comedy, Mad About You, which garnered him multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, American Comedy Award, and Screen Actors Guild nominations. More recently, he earned acclaim for his supporting role in the 2015 Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-winning film, Whiplash. He co-created and produced the seven-episode, There’s.…Johnny! on Hulu. The series intertwines authentic footage from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson with the story of a 19-year-old Andy from Nebraska who stumbles into a job at the iconic show. Decider, an entertainment and pop culture site about streaming entertainment, described There’s.…Johnny! as an “antidote to 2017 cynicism.” |
DAVE COULIER
Friday Night Coulier’s Full House aired for 192 episodes from 1987-1995. It can now be seen on Nick at Nite. Additionally, the show runs worldwide, syndicated in over 100 countries. Coulier followed this success by hosting his second prime-time hit series, America's Funniest People, which ran on ABC for four seasons. He is also co-starring in Fuller House, which began on Netflix in 2016. He has performed his clean stand-up on The Tonight Show, HBO's Detroit Comedy Jam and HBO's Comic Relief at Radio City Music Hall. He continues to sell out shows at colleges, corporate events, casinos, nightclubs, and theaters. He lives in Los Angeles. |
A tribute to the legacy of norfolk's favorite son, johnny carson
The Great American Comedy Festival was created in 2008 to pay tribute to the legacy of Norfolk’s favorite native son, Johnny Carson.
That same vision continues to hold true today.
Honoring his legacy as one of America’s greatest comedians ever, paying tribute to his status as a TV icon and remembering with gratitude the fondness Carson had for the community he called home – that’s the foundation of the Great American Comedy Festival.
He was born Oct. 23, 1925, in Corning, Iowa, to Homer “Kit” and Ruth Carson. But in 1933, the family moved to Norfolk. Six years later, Carson began his life as an entertainer, and he never stopped. He graduated from Norfolk High School in 1943, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1949. By 1962, he took over as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show and continued entertaining television audiences for 30 years.
In 1981, he returned to Norfolk to tape Johnny Goes Home, a documentary on his life. In 1992, he retired from The Tonight Show. He died on Jan. 23, 2005.
That same vision continues to hold true today.
Honoring his legacy as one of America’s greatest comedians ever, paying tribute to his status as a TV icon and remembering with gratitude the fondness Carson had for the community he called home – that’s the foundation of the Great American Comedy Festival.
He was born Oct. 23, 1925, in Corning, Iowa, to Homer “Kit” and Ruth Carson. But in 1933, the family moved to Norfolk. Six years later, Carson began his life as an entertainer, and he never stopped. He graduated from Norfolk High School in 1943, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1949. By 1962, he took over as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show and continued entertaining television audiences for 30 years.
In 1981, he returned to Norfolk to tape Johnny Goes Home, a documentary on his life. In 1992, he retired from The Tonight Show. He died on Jan. 23, 2005.
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