Well a comedian sometimes like to stir things up a bit so is he Geoff James Nugent AKA Jim Jefferies
watsea said
09:45 PM Mar 11, 2022
Good answer Sandy. The clues must have been handy, because the photo did not point to Jim Jeffries.
A bio:
Jefferies was born Geoff James Nugent in February 1977 in Sydney, Australia.[2][3][4] His father was a cabinet maker and maintenance worker from Roma, Queensland,[5] and his mother was a substitute teacher.[6] Jefferies grew up in Sydney before moving to Perth to study musical theatre and classical music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.[7][8] He began his stand-up comedy career once he left the Academy, several months before completing his degree,[5] relocating initially to Sydney and then to the UK.[6]
He has two older brothers: Scott, an investment banker,[9] and Daniel, an inspector in the New South Wales Police Force's Public Order and Riot Squad.[10]
Jefferies initially took the stage name "Jim Jeffries" but amended the last name to "Jefferies" to avoid confusion with a similarly-named American performer. He initially began stand-up with one-liner jokes. He changed to anecdotal humour when he began doing hour-long sets.[11] Jefferies first achieved international attention in 2007, when he was attacked onstage while performing at the Manchester Comedy Store.[12][13] Footage of the incident was incorporated into his act and can be seen on his 2008 DVD, Contraband. He became famous in the United States in 2009, after his debut HBO special, I Swear to God.[14]
Jefferies has performed at numerous festivals, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Just for Laughs Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Reading and Leeds Festivals and the Glastonbury Festival.[citation needed] Jefferies has also performed routines on The World Stands Up, Comedy Blue and Edinburgh and Beyond for Comedy Central.[citation needed]
Following the release of his Netflix special, Freedumb, in July 2016, Jefferies has been performing The Unusual Punishment Tour with all-new material,[15] and filmed his comedy special "This Is Me Now," at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, in January 2018.[16] On 17 December 2018 he completed his Night Talker tour with the final performance in Melbourne, Australia.
Jefferies's comedy series Legit premiered on 17 January 2013 on FX. A second season premiered on 26 February 2014, having been moved to FXX.[17] The series received positive attention among the disabled community for its portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities.[18] The series was cancelled after two seasons.[19]
On 3 March 2017, Comedy Central announced The Jim Jefferies Show, a new ten-episode weekly series,[20] that premiered on 6 June 2017.[21] Jefferies, hosting the show, takes a look on culture and politics behind his desk, and travels around the world to tackle the weeks top stories and most controversial issues. On 25 July 2017, the first season was extended with ten additional episodes,[22] that completed airing on 21 November 2017. On 15 January 2018, Comedy Central renewed the series for a twenty-episode second season,[23] which premiered on 27 March 2018.[24] The network renewed the show for a third season in January 2019, which premiered on 19 March 2019. The series concluded on 19 November 2019, after the end of its third season.[25]
Sandy, your turn again
From November 2010 to November 2012, Jefferies co-hosted the podcast Jim and Eddie Talkin' **** with his fellow comedian and former roommate, Eddie Ifft. Jefferies had to quit because of his busy work schedule.[26][27]
Jefferies appeared on comedy panel shows such as Never Mind the Buzz****s, Have I Got News for You, The Heaven and Earth Show and 8 Out of 10 Cats, the US comedy panel show The Green Room with Paul Provenza and Comedy Central's @midnight. He has also been featured on various radio programmes, including BBC Radio 5 Live's Saturday morning sports show, Opie and Anthony, and Fighting Talk.[28]
In 2015, he starred in Australian film Me and My Mates vs the Zombie Apocalypse with comedians Greg Fleet and Alex Williamson.[29] It premiered on 25 July and was released on DVD and Vimeo in Australia and New Zealand in late 2015,[30] and in the UK, Ireland, and the US in 2016.[citation needed]
In 2019, Jefferies and Suzanne Martin developed the sitcom Jefferies for NBC, in which Jefferies will star as a fictionalized version of himself.[31]
sandman55 said
09:37 PM Mar 12, 2022
Thanks watsea. Yes it was the clues. I thought perhaps a comedian would be a stirrer and then I Googled all sorts of things but it was "An Australian comedian in the US" that did it.
Now who is this fella, he is much older now and yet he has a huge amount of responsibility.
Peter Lorre was a Hungarian-American actor. Lorre began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Lorre caused an international sensation in the Weimar Republic-era film M, directed by Fritz Lang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls.
Jonathan James English was an English-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He emigrated from England to Australia with his parents in 1961. Wikipedia
Correct Sheba. It was Phil Silvers, pre his hair loss. Turn over to you.
Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah". His career as a professional entertainer spanned nearly sixty years. Silvers achieved major popularity when he starred in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post in which he played Master Sergeant Ernest (Ernie) Bilko. He also starred in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). He was a winner of two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on The Phil Silvers Show and two Tony Awards for his performances in Top Banana and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
-- Edited by watsea on Wednesday 16th of March 2022 12:57:06 AM
Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935)[a] is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books featuring short stories and wrote humor pieces for The New Yorker. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers. There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes) and the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish.[2] He released three comedy albums during the mid to late 1960s, earning a Grammy Award nomination for his 1964 comedy album entitled simply, Woody Allen.[3] In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians,[4][5] while a UK survey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian.
Sheba said
10:34 PM Mar 16, 2022
Thanks Ted. Try this one. [Easy.]
Sheba said
12:46 AM Mar 17, 2022
dorian wrote:
watsea wrote:
Hi Dorian, are you posting a bio for Woody?
Sorry, I didn't know that was required protocol.
That's why we all do it Dorian.
dorian said
02:42 PM Mar 17, 2022
Sean Connery?
Sheba said
11:54 PM Mar 17, 2022
Over to you Dorian. Who do we look for now ?
Sir Sean Connery (born Thomas Connery; 25 August 1930 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bondon film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.[1][2][3] Originating the role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions' entries and made his final appearance in Never Say Never Again.
In 2004, a poll in the UK Sunday Herald recognized Connery as "The Greatest Living Scot"[5] and a 2011 EuroMillions survey named him "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure".[6] He was voted by People magazine as the "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century" in 1999.[7]
I didn't have to be Albert Einstein to figure this one out.
Albert Einstein, it is. I think I am right.
Sheba said
09:04 PM Mar 18, 2022
I'm sure you are too Ted, but we'll have to wait for Dorian.
watsea said
09:54 PM Mar 18, 2022
Of course.
dorian said
04:07 AM Mar 19, 2022
watsea wrote:
I didn't have to be Albert Einstein to figure this one out.
Albert Einstein, it is. I think I am right.
Yes, that's him. Over to you.
Albert Einstein; 14 March 1879 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist,[7] widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. Relativity and quantum mechanics are together the two pillars of modern physics.[3][8] His massenergy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from relativity theory, has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation".[9] His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.[10][11] He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect",[12] a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. His intellectual achievements and originality resulted in "Einstein" becoming synonymous with "genius".[13]
Well a comedian sometimes like to stir things up a bit so is he Geoff James Nugent AKA Jim Jefferies
A bio:
Jefferies was born Geoff James Nugent in February 1977 in Sydney, Australia.[2][3][4] His father was a cabinet maker and maintenance worker from Roma, Queensland,[5] and his mother was a substitute teacher.[6] Jefferies grew up in Sydney before moving to Perth to study musical theatre and classical music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.[7][8] He began his stand-up comedy career once he left the Academy, several months before completing his degree,[5] relocating initially to Sydney and then to the UK.[6]
He has two older brothers: Scott, an investment banker,[9] and Daniel, an inspector in the New South Wales Police Force's Public Order and Riot Squad.[10]
Jefferies initially took the stage name "Jim Jeffries" but amended the last name to "Jefferies" to avoid confusion with a similarly-named American performer. He initially began stand-up with one-liner jokes. He changed to anecdotal humour when he began doing hour-long sets.[11] Jefferies first achieved international attention in 2007, when he was attacked onstage while performing at the Manchester Comedy Store.[12][13] Footage of the incident was incorporated into his act and can be seen on his 2008 DVD, Contraband. He became famous in the United States in 2009, after his debut HBO special, I Swear to God.[14]
Jefferies has performed at numerous festivals, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Just for Laughs Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Reading and Leeds Festivals and the Glastonbury Festival.[citation needed] Jefferies has also performed routines on The World Stands Up, Comedy Blue and Edinburgh and Beyond for Comedy Central.[citation needed]
Following the release of his Netflix special, Freedumb, in July 2016, Jefferies has been performing The Unusual Punishment Tour with all-new material,[15] and filmed his comedy special "This Is Me Now," at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, in January 2018.[16] On 17 December 2018 he completed his Night Talker tour with the final performance in Melbourne, Australia.
Jefferies's comedy series Legit premiered on 17 January 2013 on FX. A second season premiered on 26 February 2014, having been moved to FXX.[17] The series received positive attention among the disabled community for its portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities.[18] The series was cancelled after two seasons.[19]
On 3 March 2017, Comedy Central announced The Jim Jefferies Show, a new ten-episode weekly series,[20] that premiered on 6 June 2017.[21] Jefferies, hosting the show, takes a look on culture and politics behind his desk, and travels around the world to tackle the weeks top stories and most controversial issues. On 25 July 2017, the first season was extended with ten additional episodes,[22] that completed airing on 21 November 2017. On 15 January 2018, Comedy Central renewed the series for a twenty-episode second season,[23] which premiered on 27 March 2018.[24] The network renewed the show for a third season in January 2019, which premiered on 19 March 2019. The series concluded on 19 November 2019, after the end of its third season.[25]
Sandy, your turn again
From November 2010 to November 2012, Jefferies co-hosted the podcast Jim and Eddie Talkin' **** with his fellow comedian and former roommate, Eddie Ifft. Jefferies had to quit because of his busy work schedule.[26][27]
Jefferies appeared on comedy panel shows such as Never Mind the Buzz****s, Have I Got News for You, The Heaven and Earth Show and 8 Out of 10 Cats, the US comedy panel show The Green Room with Paul Provenza and Comedy Central's @midnight. He has also been featured on various radio programmes, including BBC Radio 5 Live's Saturday morning sports show, Opie and Anthony, and Fighting Talk.[28]
In 2015, he starred in Australian film Me and My Mates vs the Zombie Apocalypse with comedians Greg Fleet and Alex Williamson.[29] It premiered on 25 July and was released on DVD and Vimeo in Australia and New Zealand in late 2015,[30] and in the UK, Ireland, and the US in 2016.[citation needed]
In 2019, Jefferies and Suzanne Martin developed the sitcom Jefferies for NBC, in which Jefferies will star as a fictionalized version of himself.[31]
Thanks watsea. Yes it was the clues. I thought perhaps a comedian would be a stirrer and then I Googled all sorts of things but it was "An Australian comedian in the US" that did it.
Now who is this fella, he is much older now and yet he has a huge amount of responsibility.
Why didn't you name him Ted ? Joe Biden.
You have him Sheba over to you.
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (/badn/ BY-dn; born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
Biden was born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, moving with his family to New Castle County, Delaware, in 1953 when he was ten. He studied at the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University in 1968. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history after he was elected to the United States Senate from Delaware in 1972, at age 29. Biden was the chair or ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12 years and was influential in foreign affairs during Obama's presidency. He also chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties issues; led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act; and oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008. Biden was reelected to the Senate six times and was the fourth-most senior sitting senator at the time when he became Obama's vice president after they won the 2008 presidential election, defeating John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin. Obama and Biden were reelected in 2012, defeating Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan.
During eight years as vice president, Biden leaned on his Senate experience and frequently represented the administration in negotiations with congressional Republicans, including on the Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved a debt ceiling crisis, and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the impending "fiscal cliff". He also oversaw infrastructure spending in 2009 to counteract the Great Recession. On foreign policy, Biden was a close counselor to the president and took a leading role in designing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011. In 2017, Obama awarded Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction.
Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris defeated incumbent president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence in the 2020 presidential election. He is the oldest president and the first to have a female vice president. His early presidential activity centered around proposing, lobbying for, and signing into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to help the United States recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession, as well as a series of executive orders. Biden's orders addressed the pandemic and reversed several Trump administration policies, including rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate change and accepting new applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, although a federal judge blocked the latter. He completed the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 2021. During the withdrawal, the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized control, causing Biden to face bipartisan criticism over the manner of the withdrawal. He proposed the Build Back Better Plan, aspects of which were incorporated into the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Biden signed into law in November 2021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
Thanks Sandy. Another easy one.
I think I got this one
Peter Lorre
You sure have Alana. Who do you have for us ?
Peter Lorre was a Hungarian-American actor. Lorre began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Lorre caused an international sensation in the Weimar Republic-era film M, directed by Fritz Lang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls.
Thanks Sheba
Who is this?
Jon English
Thats the man.
Sorry BG, Dorian got there first.
So who do you have for us ?
Jonathan James English was an English-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He emigrated from England to Australia with his parents in 1961. Wikipedia
Born: 26 March 1949, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Died: 9 March 2016, Newcastle
Spouse: Carmen Sora (m. 19692006)
Children: Jessamine English, Julian English, Josephine English, Jonathan English
-- Edited by Relax-n on Tuesday 15th of March 2022 09:21:23 AM
Who is this funny guy?
-- Edited by dorian on Tuesday 15th of March 2022 09:40:59 AM
Yes, it's Woody. Your turn, watsea.
Hi Dorian, are you posting a bio for Woody?
-- Edited by watsea on Tuesday 15th of March 2022 01:28:49 PM
I will put another up as we wait for Woody's bio.
Here we go.
Another funny fella. He was around for many years.
-- Edited by watsea on Tuesday 15th of March 2022 03:23:55 PM
Phil Silvers.
Correct Sheba. It was Phil Silvers, pre his hair loss. Turn over to you.
Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah". His career as a professional entertainer spanned nearly sixty years. Silvers achieved major popularity when he starred in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post in which he played Master Sergeant Ernest (Ernie) Bilko. He also starred in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). He was a winner of two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on The Phil Silvers Show and two Tony Awards for his performances in Top Banana and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
-- Edited by watsea on Wednesday 16th of March 2022 12:57:06 AM
Sorry, I didn't know that was required protocol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935)[a] is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books featuring short stories and wrote humor pieces for The New Yorker. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers. There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes) and the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish.[2] He released three comedy albums during the mid to late 1960s, earning a Grammy Award nomination for his 1964 comedy album entitled simply, Woody Allen.[3] In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians,[4][5] while a UK survey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian.
Thanks Ted. Try this one. [Easy.]
Over to you Dorian. Who do we look for now ?
Sir Sean Connery (born Thomas Connery; 25 August 1930 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.[1][2][3] Originating the role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions' entries and made his final appearance in Never Say Never Again.
Connery began acting in smaller theatre and television productions until his breakout role as Bond. Although he did not enjoy the off-screen attention the role gave him, the success of the Bond films brought Connery offers from notable directors such as Alfred Hitch****, Sidney Lumet and John Huston. Their films in which Connery appeared included Marnie (1964), The Hill (1965), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). He also appeared in A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000). Connery officially retired from acting in 2006, although he briefly returned for voice-over roles in 2012.
His achievements in film were recognised with an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (including the BAFTA Fellowship), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. In 1987, he was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, and he received the US Kennedy Center Honors lifetime achievement award in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.[4]
In 2004, a poll in the UK Sunday Herald recognized Connery as "The Greatest Living Scot"[5] and a 2011 EuroMillions survey named him "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure".[6] He was voted by People magazine as the "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century" in 1999.[7]
Who is this smart guy?
Albert Einstein, it is. I think I am right.
I'm sure you are too Ted, but we'll have to wait for Dorian.
Of course.
Yes, that's him. Over to you.
Albert Einstein ; 14 March 1879 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist,[7] widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. Relativity and quantum mechanics are together the two pillars of modern physics.[3][8] His massenergy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from relativity theory, has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation".[9] His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.[10][11] He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect",[12] a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. His intellectual achievements and originality resulted in "Einstein" becoming synonymous with "genius".[13]