This American stand-up comedian starred in a movie depicting a mother and daughter who are abducted while on vacation in what country?
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Amy Schumer Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actress, and producer. She ventured into comedy in the early 2000s before appearing as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality competition series "Last Comic Standing" in 2007. Since 2013, she has been the creator, co-producer, co-writer and star of the Comedy Central sketch comedy series "Inside Amy Schumer", for which she received a Peabody Award and for which Schumer has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards for her work on the series, winning Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015. She wrote and made her film debut in a starring role in "Trainwreck" (2015), for which she received nominations for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She published a memoir in 2016, "The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo", which held the top position on "The New York Times" Non-Fiction Best Seller list for two weeks, and has also written for "Cosmopolitan" magazine. Schumer also starred alongside Goldie Hawn in the comedy film "Snatched" (2017).
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Snatched (2017 film) Snatched is a 2017 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Levine and written by Katie Dippold. The film stars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn (in her first film since 2002's "The Banger Sisters"), with Joan Cusack, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes and Christopher Meloni in supporting roles, and depicts a mother and daughter who are abducted while on vacation in South America.
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Etta May Etta May is an American comedian. She was the winner of the American Comedy Awards Stand-Up Comic of the Year, and has appeared on MTV, Oprah, Comic Strip Live, and as a guest commentator on "CBS Sunday Morning".
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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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I'm the One That I Want I'm The One That I Want is a concert movie released in 2000. The film captures a live performance of a one-woman show of stand-up comedy, featuring actress and comedian Margaret Cho.
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Karen Maruyama Karen Maruyama (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress and comedian. She has appeared on television in supporting roles in a number of sitcoms, including recurring characters on "The Jamie Foxx Show", "Strip Mall", "Suddenly Susan", and "Arrested Development". Maruyama is well known as an improv performer and instructor, and was a featured guest on both the American and British versions of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", as well as a member of The Groundlings. She also appeared as a parking lot attendant in an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
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The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail was a stand-up comedy television series that aired on Comedy Central in the United States. It was hosted by stand up comedians Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani. It was filmed in the Nerdist Showroom at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles. It originated as a weekly live show in 2010, and then on July 24, 2014, an edited version began airing on Comedy Central in eight-episode seasons. On February 17, 2015, Comedy Central announced that it had picked up "The Meltdown" for a second season. On November 20, 2015, Comedy Central renewed "The Meltdown" for a third season. On September 23, 2016, it was announced that the third season would be the final one, due to Ray and Nanjiani ending the live show.
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Mario Joyner Mario Joyner (born October 3, 1961) is an American stand-up comedian best known as the host of MTV's "Half Hour Comedy Hour" from 1988–1992. He is a longtime friend and collaborator of comedians Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld. He appeared regularly on "The Chris Rock Show" and "Everybody Hates Chris". He also guest starred in the "Seinfeld" episodes "The Engagement" and "The Puerto Rican Day," playing two different characters, and voiced the character Jackson in the film "Bee Movie". He has opened on national tours for Chris Rock (during his "No Apologies" tour) and for Jerry Seinfeld.
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Peter's Two Dads "Peter's Two Dads" is the tenth episode in the fifth season of the American animated television series "Family Guy". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 11, 2007. The plot follows Peter traveling to Ireland to find his biological father, after he accidentally kills his stepfather at his daughter's birthday party. Meanwhile, Stewie undergoes a phase of selfishness, believing everything belongs to him. This results in Lois spanking him, which makes him realize he is a masochist. Also, Meg turns 17 in the episode.
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Airplane! Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and the Philippines) is a 1980 American satirical parody film directed and written by David and Jerry Zucker as well as Jim Abrahams, and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film "Zero Hour!", from which it borrows the plot and the central characters, as well as many elements from "Airport 1975". The film is known for its use of surreal humor and its fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags.
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Charlie Moreno Charlie Moreno (born November 8, 1978 in El Paso, Texas) is an American stand-up comic and an actor. His comedy routines are known for being dark and morbid, and often include humorous tales from his traumatic life.
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The Vacation Goo "The Vacation Goo" is the first episode of the fourth season of the animated series "American Dad!", an episode produced for Season 2. It originally aired on September 30, 2007. This episode centers around the Smiths, whom start to develop communication issues with each other. Francine becomes aggravated that the family cannot congregate with each other during dinner. Stan later plans for a vacation in Hawaii, only to be interrupted by Roger. The family subsequently go on several virtual vacations, only to have Francine go into an emotional breakdown. The Smith family go onto a cruise, but Francine's suspicions get the best of her and the Smiths are stranded on an island.
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Roger Rohatgi Roger Rohatgi (born 19 May in Houston, Texas) is an American award-winning independent film producer and screenwriter, motivational speaker, actor and ordained minister focusing on youth and college-aged audiences. On April 24, 2004, he was fully ordained as a Christian nondenominational minister by Vision Ministries International based in Columbus, OH. He won his first independent film award on October 16, 2005, for the film "Waterwalker", at the Bare Bones International Film Festival in Tulsa, OK. "Waterwalker" received top honors, winning "Best-of-Fest", for the mini-feature category of the festival. Roger was featured as a guest on "Good Day Tulsa" ABC on November 2, 2005. (Other notable guests on the show were Nicholas Sparks, author of "The Notebook"). "The Atoka County Times" reported on April 27, 2005 that ""Waterwalker" is a chapter in Rohatgi's career. A student of film-making, he is also an actor and director, with several independent careers to his credit. Rohatgi is an emerging force in Hollywood and New York, at the same time at home in Atoka." He has also been featured on many other TV and radio shows. He hosted/emceed the first two episodes of a national stand-up comedy TV show on American Life Network and FamilyNet TV called "LOL". Currently, Roger hosts the national show Trailerific on Youtoo TV.
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Karen Knotts Karen Knotts (born April 2, 1954) is an American comedic actress and daughter of Don Knotts.
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Jorma Taccone Jorma Christopher Taccone ( ; born March 19, 1977) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer, record producer, and musician. Taccone is one third of the sketch comedy troupe The Lonely Island along with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. In 2010, he co-wrote and directed the "SNL" spin-off film "MacGruber", which was his directorial debut. Taccone directed his second feature with Akiva Schaffer, the musical comedy "", which he also co-wrote and co-starred with Schaffer and Samberg. The film was released on June 3, 2016 to positive reviews.
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Hotel Hell Vacation Hotel Hell Vacation is an American online comedy short film released on February 7, 2010 on HomeAway's website. Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo reprise their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold. It was the first time Clark and Ellen had been seen in a "Vacation" film since 1997's "Vegas Vacation"; they later appeared together again in 2015's "Vacation". The fourteen-minute short premiered as a series of commercials during the Super Bowl to help promote HomeAway, Inc. Although sanctioned by Warner Bros. (which holds the underlying rights to the "Vacation" series characters and concepts), this film was not sponsored by National Lampoon, Inc., which initiated the "Vacation" series.
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Rickey Smiley Broderick "Rickey" Smiley (born August 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, television host, actor, and radio personality, known for his prank phone calls. The calls feature Smiley disguising his voice and carrying on a conversation with the recipient of the call. He is the host of the nationally syndicated "Rickey Smiley Morning Show" based in Atlanta from its flagship affiliate WHTA "Hot 107.9". Smiley has starred in sitcom "The Rickey Smiley Show" which aired on TV One. He is also a featured columnist on the Fox-produced tabloid nationally-syndicated show "Dish Nation". In 2015, Smiley started appearing on "Rickey Smiley For Real", a reality television series about his life.
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American Baby "American Baby" is a song from American jam band Dave Matthews Band released as the first single from their 2005 studio album, "Stand Up". The song is also featured on the band's greatest hits album, "The Best of What's Around Vol. 1". The song encourages Americans not to lose their culture in the midst of political and social trouble.
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Cathryn Michon Cathryn Michon is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, actress, writer and stand-up comic with numerous accolades for writing and film. She has been featured at the Montreal Comedy Festival, the Toyota Comedy Festival and the Marshall’s Women in Comedy Festival. Her touring stand-up performance "The Grrl Genius Club", as well as a subsequent novel sharing the same name, "The Grrl Genius Guide to Life" (HarperCollins, July 2001), lead to a television hosting stint on AMC's similarly titled "Grrl Genius at the Movies" and a second novel entry titled "The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex with Other People" (St. Martin's Press, January 2004), all garnering positive receptions nationwide.
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What Goes Up What Goes Up is an American comedy-drama film distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment starring Hilary Duff, Steve Coogan, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby, and Molly Shannon, directed by Jonathan Glatzer and co-written by Glatzer and Robert Lawson. Coogan also serves as an executive producer. It premiered on May 8, 2009 at the 3rd Annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival. "What Goes Up" was released in the US through Sony Pictures and Three Kings Productions in select theaters on May 29, 2009 and expanded to more theaters the following week. Cities included Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, Buffalo, Boston and Chicago. The movie grossed $5,290 in its opening weekend.
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Greg Johnson (comedian) Greg Johnson is an American stand-up comedian, actor and TV host.
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National Lampoon's European Vacation European Vacation (originally given the working title Vacation '2' Europe) is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling and written by John Hughes and Robert Klane based on a story by Hughes. The second film in National Lampoon's "Vacation" film series, it stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo. Dana Hill and Jason Lively replace Dana Barron and Anthony Michael Hall as Griswald children Audrey and Rusty. After Hall declined to reprise his role (he decided to star in "Weird Science" instead), the producers decided to recast both children.