21Ron White
Comedian Ron White regularly smoked so much weed on his private jet that the pilots had to wear oxygen masks.
22Mitch Hedberg
Comedian Mitch Hedberg never passed on a job, having been told “no” so often early in his career that he felt like if he didn’t say “yes,” he might not be given the opportunity to perform again.
23Buster 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."
24Andy 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.
25Drew 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.
26Vince 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.
27Bert 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.”
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28Gracie 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.
