Mike Scully wrote for what soviet-born American comedian who emigrated to the United States in 1977?
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Mike Scully Michael "Mike" Scully (born October 2, 1956) is an American television writer and producer. He is known for his work as executive producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom "The Simpsons" from 1997 to 2001. Scully grew up in West Springfield, Massachusetts and long had an interest in writing. He was an underachiever at school and dropped out of college, going on to work in a series of jobs. Eventually, in 1986, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a stand-up comic and wrote for Yakov Smirnoff.
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Yakov Smirnoff Yakov Naumovich Pokhis, better known as Yakov Smirnoff (born 24 January 1951), is a Soviet-born American comedian, actor and writer. After emigrating to the United States in 1977, Smirnoff began performing as a stand-up comic. He reached his biggest success in the mid-to-late 1980s, appearing in several films and the television sitcom vehicle "What a Country!". His comic persona was of a naive immigrant from the Soviet Union who was perpetually confused and delighted by life in the United States. His humor combined a mockery of life under Communism and of consumerism in the United States, as well as word play caused by misunderstanding of American phrases and culture, all punctuated by the catchphrase, "And I thought, 'What a country!'
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Joe Wilkinson Joseph "Joe" Wilkinson (born 2 May 1975) is an English comedian, actor and writer.
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Victor Grossman Victor Grossman (born March 11, 1928) is an American publicist and author who defected to the Soviet Union in 1952, was sent by the Soviet to study journalism in East Germany, remained there working as a journalist and writer. He is now living in Germany.
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¿Qué Pasa, USA? ¿Qué Pasa, USA? (Spanish: "What's Happening, USA?" ) is America's first bilingual situation comedy, and the first sitcom to be produced for PBS. It was produced and taped in front of a live studio audience at PBS member station WPBT in Miami, Florida and aired on PBS member stations nationwide. The program explored the trials and tribulations faced by the Peñas, a Cuban-American family living in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, as they struggled to cope with a new country and a new language. The series is praised as being very true-to-life and accurately, if humorously, portraying the life and culture of Miami's Cuban-American population. Today, the show is cherished by many Miamians as a true, albeit humorous, representation of life and culture in Miami.
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Alexei Severinsky Alexei "Alex" Severinsky is a Soviet emigre living in the United States. He graduated from the Kharkiv University of Radioelectronics in 1967 and got his Candidate of Science degree (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering from Institute for Precision Measurements in Radioelectronics and Physics in Moscow (presently Russia) in 1975. Before the emigration he worked in Kharkiv (presently Ukraine). Severinsky emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1978.
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Wayne Federman Wayne Federman (born June 22, 1959) is an American comedian, actor, author, comedy writer, and musician. He is noted for numerous stand-up comedy appearances in clubs, theaters, and on television; a biography of "Pistol" Pete Maravich; and supporting comedic acting roles in "The X-Files", "The Larry Sanders Show", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Community", "Legally Blonde", "50 First Dates", "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", and "Step Brothers". He was the head monologue writer for NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in its first season.
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Matt Braunger Matthew "Matt" Braunger (born August 1, 1974) is an American actor, writer, and stand-up comedian. Outside of performing stand-up, Braunger is noted for being a cast member on "MADtv" during its final season in 2008–2009 and as a recurring guest star on NBC's "Up All Night".
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Des Bishop Desmond "Des" Bishop (born 12 November 1975) is an Irish-American comedian. He was brought up in New York, moved to Ireland aged 14 and is now still primarily residing there.
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Wil Anderson William James "Wil" Anderson (born 31 January 1974) is an Australian comedian, writer, presenter, and podcaster.
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A Year at the Top A Year at the Top is an American sitcom that aired for five episodes on CBS from August 5 to September 2, 1977. Produced by T.A.T. Communications Company, the series was created by Heywood Kling and co-executive produced by Don Kirshner and Norman Lear.
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Chris Cubas Christopher "Chris" L Cubas is an American stand-up comedian, podcast host, and actor.
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Tommy Chong Thomas B. Kin Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, and cannabis rights activist who is known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox's "That '70s Show". He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s.
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Brian Regan (comedian) Brian Joseph Regan ( ) (born June, 2, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian who uses observational, sarcastic, and self-deprecating humor. His performances are clean as he refrains from profanity and off-color humor. Regan's material typically covers everyday events, such as shipping a package with UPS and a visit to an optometrist. Regan makes frequent references to childhood, including little league baseball, grade school spelling bees, and science projects. Body language and facial expressions make his stand-up act atypically physical. His clean, off-center humor has been praised by critics and contemporaries alike and Regan enjoys a fan base that crosses age groups.
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Joel Chasnoff Joel Chasnoff (born December 15, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian and writer with stage and screen credits in eight countries, and author of the comic memoir "The 188th Crybaby Brigade", about his year as a tank soldier in the Israeli Army.
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Jason Love (comedian) Jason Love is an American comedian, musician, and author from Thousand Oaks, California. Love began his humor career in 2003 by syndicating a daily cartoon, "Snapshots", in collaboration with Serbian illustrator Vladimir Stankovski. "Snapshots" continues to be published by newspapers such as "The Denver Post" and "Tampa Bay Times".
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Maxim Galkin Maxim Alexandrovich Galkin (Russian: Максим Алeксандpoвич Галкин ; born 18 June 1976 in Naro-Fominsky District) is a Russian comedian, television presenter and singer.
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Colin Kane Colin Kane (born October 17, 1979) is an American comedian, actor and writer. Kane is mainly known for his in-your-face style of insult comedy and off-the-cuff crowd work.
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Rich Hall Richard Travis "Rich" Hall (born 10 June 1954) is an American comedian, writer, and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as "Fridays", "Not Necessarily the News" (popularising the "sniglet" neologism), and "Saturday Night Live".
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The McCarthys The McCarthys is an American sitcom created by Brian Gallivan, who also shares executive producer credits with Mike Sikowitz, Will Gluck, Richard Schwartz, and Andy Ackerman for CBS Television Studios and Sony Pictures Television. The series debuted on CBS during the 2014–15 television season, airing Thursdays at 9:30 pm (ET/PT)/8:30 pm (CT). It aired from October 30, 2014 to July 11, 2015.
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The Peter Serafinowicz Show The Peter Serafinowicz Show is a BBC Two comedy sketch show written by and starring Peter Serafinowicz. The first series started on 4 October 2007 at 21:30 as part of the newly launched "Thursdays Are Funny" brand on BBC2 and Thursdays on ABC2. On 1 August 2008, American cable network G4 began broadcasting the show as part of their "Duty Free TV" block of international programming.
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Joel McHale Joel Edward McHale (born November 20, 1971) is an American comedian, actor, writer, television producer, and television host. He is known for hosting "The Soup" and portraying Jeff Winger on the NBC/Yahoo! sitcom "Community". He has appeared in such films as "" (2011) and "Ted" (2012). He also starred in the CBS sitcom "The Great Indoors".