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Sam Simon
American television producer (1955–2015)

Rob McElhenney
American actor and producer

Eric André
American comedian and actor
Preston Sturges
American film director and screenwriter (1898-1959)
P. J. O'Rourke
American political satirist and journalist (1947–2022)

Jim Abrahams
American movie director and writer (1944–2024)

Colin Jost
Colin Kelly Jost is an American comedian, writer, and actor. He has been a staff writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2005, and co-anchor of Weekend Update since 2014. He also served as one of the show's co-head writers from 2012 to 2015 and later came back as one of the show's head writers in 2017 until 2022 alongside Michael Che.
Buck Henry
American actor (1930–2020)
Justin Roiland
American animator and voice actor (born 1980)
Jerry Zucker
American director and producer
John Mulaney
American comedian and actor (born 1982)
Dennis Miller
American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor
Dana Carvey
American comedian
Lorne Michaels
Canadian and American television producer, writer, and actor (born 1944)
Rachel Bloom
American actress, singer, and producer
Norman Lear
American television writer and producer (1922-2023)
Demetri Martin
American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist
Marc Maron
American comedian, actor, and media personality (born 1965)

Christopher Guest
Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest, known professionally as Christopher Guest, is an American and British actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. Guest has written, directed, and starred in his series of comedy films shot in mockumentary style. He co-wrote and acted in the rock satire This Is Spinal Tap (1984), and later directed a string of satirical mockumentary films such as Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016). He also acted in the films Death Wish (1974), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), and A Few Good Men (1992); and was a regular cast member on the 10th season of Saturday Night Live.
Loren Bouchard
American director and musician
Bowen Yang
Bowen Yang is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, and writer. Yang was a staff writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 2018, and a cast member for seven seasons from 2019 until his departure in 2025. He became the first SNL featured player to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2021, the same year he was promoted to repertory status.
Glenn Howerton
American actor
David Zucker
American film director, screenwriter, producer

Dan Harmon
American screenwriter
David X. Cohen
American television writer (born 1966)
Billy Gilbert
American comedian and actor (1894–1971)
Jorma Taccone
American comedy writer, actor and film director
Al Jean
American television writer and producer (born 1961)
Michael Che
American comedian

Ernie Kovacs
American comedian, actor, and writer (1919-1962)
Larry Charles
American television writer, director and producer
Andrea Savage
American actress
Bill Lawrence
American screenwriter, producer, and director
Nicholas Stoller
British-American filmmaker
Tim Heidecker
American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (born 1976)
David Mirkin
American writer, director and producer
Mike Reiss
American screenwriter
Richard Appel
American writer and producer (born 1963)
Greg Daniels
American writer, producer, and director
Andrew Bergman
American film director and screenwriter (born 1945)
Lorenzo Music
American actor, voice actor, writer, producer and musician (1937-2001)
Robert Smigel
American actor and comedian
Michael Schur
American television producer and writer
Mike Scully
American writer and producer
Larry Gelbart
American comedy writer and playwright (1928-2009)
Alan Zweibel
American producer
Bennett Cerf
American publisher and author (1898-1971)
Bill Oakley
American writer and producer
Mikey Day
American actor and comedian (born 1980)
Susan Harris
American television comedy writer and producer (born 1940)
Josh Weinstein
American television writer and producer

Paul Lieberstein
American actor and screenwriter
Bruce Vilanch
American comedy writer, head writer for the Oscars
Tony Barbieri
American comedy writer and performer
Colton Dunn
American comedian, actor, writer, and producer
Michael Waldron
American screenwriter
Pete Holmes
American comedian
Paula Pell
American actor, writer and producer
Morey Amsterdam
American actor and comedian (1908–1996)
Rory Scovel
American comedian