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| x Josip Broz Tito |
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Josip Broz Tito (Cyrillic script: Јосип Броз Тито, (7 or 25 May 1892 – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. He was Secretary-General (later President) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939–80), and went on to lead the...
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| x Niall O'Higgins |
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| x Stephen Fry |
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Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is a British actor, writer, comedian, author, television presenter and film director. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the...
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| x Richard Dawkins |
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Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British biological theorist with a background in ethology. He is a popular science author focusing on evolution.
Dawkins is one of Britain's best-known academics. He came to prominence...
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| x Bertolt Brecht |
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Bertolt Brecht (help·info) (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (help·info); 10 February 1898–14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally...
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| x Brian Eno |
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Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), commonly known as simply Eno (pronounced /ˈiːnoʊ/), is an English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as one...
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| x Douglas Adams |
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Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a ...
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| x Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhəlm ˈniːtʃə]) was a 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary...
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| x Frank Zappa |
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Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique...
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| x Gene Roddenberry |
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Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter, producer and futurist. He created the American science-fiction series Star Trek, an accomplishment for which he was sometimes referred to as the ...
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| x Henry Rollins |
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Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American singer-songwriter, raconteur, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, radio DJ, and activist. After joining the short-lived Washington D.C. band State of Alert in...
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| x Karl Marx |
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Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. Marx...
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| x Roman Polański |
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Roman Raymond Polanski (Polish: Roman Rajmund Polański; born 18 August 1933) is a French-born and resident Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a critically acclaimed director of...
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| x Woody Allen |
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Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright.
Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have...
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| x Friedrich Engels |
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Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. Together they produced The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Engels also...
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| x Maurice Ravel |
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Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer of Impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and...
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| x Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
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Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov), also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, (18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844 – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer,...
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| x George Carlin |
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George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian and social critic, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums. He was also an actor and author.
Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his...
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| x Ricky Gervais |
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Ricky Dene Gervais (pronounced /dʒəˈveɪz/; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, film-maker and broadcaster.
Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co...
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| x Neil Hannon |
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Neil Hannon (born 7 November 1970) is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter, best known as the creator (in 1989) and frontman of the orchestral pop group The Divine Comedy. The band's official website even goes so far as to say, "The Divine Comedy...
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| x Dead Prez |
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Dead Prez is an American underground political hip hop duo composed of stic.man and M-1. They are known for their confrontational style combined with socialist and pan-Africanist lyrics. These lyrics tend to focus on revolution, veganism,...
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| x Keith Allen |
Keith Philip George Allen (born 2 June 1953) is a Welsh actor, comedian, musician, singer–songwriter, artist, author and television presenter. He is the father of British singer Lily Allen.
He appeared in a number of films made by The Comic Strip...
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| x Noel Gallagher |
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Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967 in Longsight, Manchester) is an English musician best known as the former principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and occasional vocalist of English rock band Oasis. Raised with younger brother Liam...
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| x Diane Keaton |
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Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972),...
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| x Kerry King |
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Kerry Ray King (born June 3, 1964) is an American guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of American thrash metal band Slayer.
King was born in Los Angeles, California to a father who was an aircraft parts inspector and a mother who...
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| x Harvey Fierstein |
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Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1952) is an American actor and playwright, noted for the early (1982) distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and playing the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag...
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| x W. P. Kinsella |
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William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC (born May 25, 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who is well-known for his novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work has often concerned baseball,...
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| x Penn & Teller |
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Penn & Teller (Penn Jillette and Teller) are Las Vegas headliners whose act is an amalgam of illusion and comedy. Penn Jillette is a raconteur; Teller generally uses mime while performing, although his voice can occasionally be heard throughout...
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| x Kathleen Hanna |
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Julie Ruin is the independent record produced by Kathleen Hanna under the name Julie Ruin in 1997, while taking a break from Bikini Kill. It touches upon feminism, crocheting, aerobics and resisting police abuse. It was mostly produced in Kathleen's...
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| x Penn Jillette |
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Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, comedian, illusionist, juggler, musician and writer known for his work with fellow illusionist Teller in the team Penn & Teller, and advocacy of atheism, libertarian philosophy, free...
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| x Wayne Static |
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Wayne Static (born Wayne Richard Wells, November 4, 1965 in Muskegon, Michigan, USA) is an American musician, and the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and programmer for the industrial metal band Static-X.
Static grew up in Shelby, Michigan...
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| x Ric Ocasek |
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Ric Ocasek (born Richard T Otcasek on March 23, 1949) is an American of Czech heritage musician and music producer. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended Bowling Green State University. He is the former vocalist and rhythm guitarist for...
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| x Matthew Sweet |
Sidney Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964, in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the...
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| x Sarah Vowell |
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Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American author, journalist, humorist, and commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written several books and is a regular contributor to the radio program This American Life...
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| x Kathy Griffin |
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Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, media personality, and LGBT rights advocate. A self-proclaimed "D-list celebrity", Griffin first gained recognition for appearances on two episodes of...
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| x Isaac Brock |
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Isaac Brock (born on July 9, 1975) is the lead singer, guitarist, banjoist, and songwriter for the American indie rock band Modest Mouse, as well as his side project band, Ugly Casanova. As a singer he is easily distinguished by his slightly lisp...
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| x Graham Linehan |
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Graham Linehan (pronounced /ˈlɪnəhæn/; born 22 May 1968) is an Irish television writer, actor and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a number of popular television comedies. He is most noted for his...
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| x Kirk Jones |
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Kirk Jones (born November 3, 1973), also referred to as Sticky Fingaz or Sticky, is an American rapper, actor, and a member of the hip-hop group Onyx. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his television roles as Private Maurice "Smoke" Williams...
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| x Dave Foley |
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David Scott "Dave" Foley (born January 4, 1963) is a Canadian comic actor, writer, director and producer best known for his work in The Kids in the Hall, NewsRadio, and Celebrity Poker Showdown. He also frequently appears on The Late Late Show on...
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| x Julia Sweeney |
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Julia Anne Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) is an American actress, comedian and author best known for her Saturday Night Live career and autobiographical solo shows.
Sweeney was born in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of Jeri, a homemaker, and...
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| x Stephan Jenkins |
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Stephan Douglas Jenkins (born on September 27, 1964 in Oakland, California, U.S.), is an American musician best known as the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for Third Eye Blind. Under Jenkins's leadership, Third Eye Blind has sold over eight...
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| x Till Lindemann |
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Till Lindemann (born January 4, 1963) is a German musician and poet who is the frontman and lead vocalist for the German rock band Rammstein.
Lindemann was born in Leipzig, East Germany, but he grew up in the village of Wendisch-Rambow near Schwerin...
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| x Christian Lorenz |
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Christian "Flake" Lorenz (born 16 November 1966), sometimes called "Doktor Lorenz") is a German musician, notable as the keyboardist for the Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. He is also known for his role in the band Feeling B.
Lorenz has a...
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| x Richard Patrick |
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Richard Patrick (born May 10, 1968 in Needham, Massachusetts) is an American rock musician. He is the frontman for the band Filter, a founding member of the supergroup Army of Anyone, and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails.
After...
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| x Alex Kapranos |
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Alex Kapranos (Greek: Άλεξ Καπράνος, born Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, 20 March 1972 in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire) is an English musician who is the lead singer and the guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.
Alex Kapranos was born in...
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| x Dominic Howard |
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Dominic James Howard, D.A. (also known as Dom Howard) (born December 7, 1977 in Stockport, England) is the drummer for the English rock band Muse.
Howard was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in England on December 7, 1977. When he was around 8...
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| x Matthew Bellamy |
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Matthew James Bellamy (born 9 June 1978) is an English musician and composer, who is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Muse.
Bellamy's father, George, was the rhythm guitarist in the 1960s...
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| x Patton Oswalt |
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Patton Oswalt (born January 27, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor.
Oswalt was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, to Carla and Larry J. Oswalt. He grew up in Sterling, Virginia and is a 1987 graduate of Broad Run High School in...
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| x Nick Holmes |
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Nick Holmes (born January 7, 1971 in England) is a British singer, of the band Paradise Lost.
Holmes formed Paradise Lost. in late 1988 when he and the other band members were barely out of secondary school. Like other contemporaries of the British...
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| x Vic Chesnutt |
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Vic Chesnutt (born on November 12, 1964) is a singer-songwriter living in Athens, Georgia. He has been writing songs since he was five years old. Injured in a car accident in 1983, the paraplegic artist's first big breakthrough to commercial success...
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| x Aaron Stainthorpe |
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Aaron Stainthorpe (born 12 November 1968) is the vocalist for doom metal band My Dying Bride. He was born in England but moved to Germany when he was six months old, because his British army officer father was stationed in the country. He currently...
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| x Gidget Gein |
Gidget Gein (born Bradley Stewart, September 11, 1969 – October 8, 2008) was an American musician and artist. He was the second bassist for the alternative metal band Marilyn Manson. His stage name references serial killer Ed Gein and the novel...
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| x Mike Jones |
Mike Jones, born August 11, 1962, has appeared onstage with Penn and Teller for the last seven years, and continues to play with them during their nightly show in Las Vegas.
Mike first garnished praise as a young musician, performing professionally...
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| x Mick Thompson |
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Mickael Gordon "Mick" Thomson (born November 3, 1973), or known by his number #7, is a musician, best known as being the one of the guitarists for the Grammy winning metal band Slipknot.
Mick Thomson is one of the guitarists for Slipknot. Thomson...
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| x Daryl Bamonte |
Daryl Bamonte is well known for working for bands like Depeche Mode and The Cure. He is the now the manager for Christian Eigner & Andrew Phillpott, Paul PDub Walton and Eigner & Phillpott's band projects Compact Space and Das Shadow. He is also a...
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| x Stic.man |
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Clayton Gavin (born 1974, in Shadeville, Florida, USA), better known as stic.man, is a rapper, activist and author known for his work as one half of the political hip-hop duo Dead Prez. He is known largely for their hard-hitting style and...
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| x Michael Goudeau |
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Michael Carey Goudeau (born 1959) is a juggler and an ex-circus clown who graduated from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. He is also a writer and executive producer for the Showtime series Bullshit!.
Goudeau currently...
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| x Seth Green |
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Seth Benjamin Gesshel Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and Emmy Award-nominated television producer. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as Doctor Evil...
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| x Inger Lorre |
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Inger Lorre (b. 1964 Lori Wening) is an American singer who is best known for her bands The Nymphs and Motel Shootout.
The Nymphs spent the mid-to-late 80's honing their craft in New Jersey, but soon decided to try to make it big in California. They...
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