1Harold Lloyd
In 1920, a comedian named Harold Lloyd lost two fingers after picking up what he assumed to be a lit prop bomb at a photoshoot, that turned out to be a real bomb. It took 8 months to recover, and for the rest of his career, he had to wear a prosthetic.
2Louis C.K.
Comedian Louis C.K.'s first language is Spanish as he grew up in Mexico. He jokes that he is an "accidental white person" because he doesn't look Hispanic.
3Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari started a group called "The Food Club", that visits restaurants dressed in suits and captains hats, and if they like the food, they leave a plaque that states "The Food Club has dined here and deemed it plaque-worthy."
4Retta
Comedian Retta (from Parks and Recreation) is the niece of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the former President of Liberia.
5Gracie Allen
Comedian Gracie Allen kept her age a secret, even from husband George Burns. She joked that she was born in July 1906 and the birth certificate was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 (Allen: "It was an awfully big earthquake"). The US census proves she was born in 1895.
6Bert Kreischer
Comedian Bert Kreischer was such a hellraiser at Florida State University that Rolling Stone did a six-page feature on him calling him ''the top partyer at the number one party school in the country." That became the inspiration for the movie, “National Lampoon's Van Wilder.”
7Vince Champ
Vince Champ, a comedian, and 1992 Star Search winner is serving a 30-40 year sentence for rapes he committed at college campuses on his stand up circuit. He is expected to be released in 2033.
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8Drew Carey
Comedian Drew Carey, after getting kicked out from University for being too bad at academics, went on to become a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps.
9Andy Kaufman
Comedian Andy Kaufman once played a show at Carnegie Hall. After the show, he loaded the entire audience into twenty-four buses and took them all out for milk and cookies.
10Buster Keaton
Silent film comedian Buster Keaton got his start in his father's vaudeville act at the age of 3. His act would be to goad his father into throwing him across the stage, and he became so good at falling that he rarely got bruises. He was eventually billed as "The Little Boy Who Can't Be Damaged."
