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JOEL MCHALE
Saturday Night Joel McHale is best known for his role on the comedy series, Community, where he played fast-talking lawyer Jeff Winger who was forced to return to college when his law degree was revoked. While in college, he became the reluctant leader of a group of misfits. The show aired on NBC for five seasons and one season on Yahoo. McHale can currently be found on Netflix playing former Community co-star Chevy Chase. He has also appeared opposite Will Forte in A Futile and Stupid Gesture. He is currently starring in a weekly Netflix show, The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale. |
RICH LITTLE
Friday Night Rich Little is described as a master mimic of more than 200 voices. He has perfected the voices of U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. He enjoyed skewering political figures and was liked and appreciated by many. “You do me better than I do,” President Reagan told him several times. |
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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