Comedians from Brooklyn

Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning eight decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. Allen has received many accolades, including the most wins and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen has also received numerous honors, including an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer (1893–1980)

Edward Regan Murphy is an American comedian, actor, and singer. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential Black artists in the entertainment industry, and one of the greatest comedians of all time. He had his breakthrough as a stand-up comic before gaining stardom for his film roles; He has received several accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, and an Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. He was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2015, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2023, and the 51st AFI Life Achievement Award in 2026.

Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and musician. Primarily a comedic leading actor in films, his accolades include an Independent Spirit Award, alongside nominations for three Grammy Awards, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, eight Golden Raspberry Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2023, Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

American comedian, actress, and television host (1933–2014)

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 28 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2024.

American comedian, writer and actor (born 1947)

American actor, filmmaker (1934–2023)

American actor (1920–2014)

American actress and comedian (born 1982)

American comedian, actor, screenwriter, producer, and director

American comedian and actor

James Christian Kimmel is an American television host and comedian. He is best known as the host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which has aired on ABC since 2003. Kimmel has hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards three times, in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and the Academy Awards four times, in 2017, 2018, 2023, and 2024.

Danny Kaye was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.

American comedian and actor (1916–1987)

Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina ( ), is an American actress and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code (2014–2015). She expanded to films with supporting roles in the comedies Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), ''Ocean's 8 (2018), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). For her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell'' (2019), she won a Golden Globe Award.

American talk show host and comedian (born 1974)

American actress and comedienne (1922–2009)

American actor and comedian

American director, writer, and producer (born 1940)

American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1964)

American actor, producer and comedian (1897–1974)

American actor and comedian (1927–2020)

American stand-up comedian (1947–2024)

American actress

American actor and comedian

American actor (1915-1977)

American actor, musician and filmmaker

American comedian and actress (1929–2015)

American actor (1933–2009)

American actor and comedian (1924–2003)

American actress (born 1970)

American comedian

Charles Quinton Murphy was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was best known as a writer and cast member of the Comedy Central sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show, and a co-star of the sitcom Black Jesus. He was the older brother of actor and comedian Eddie Murphy.

American comedian, television host, actress and writer

American comedian and actor (1897–1975)

American entertainer, comedic actor, songwriter (1911-1985)

American actor and comedian

American actress (1882–1965)

American comedian and actor

American actor, comedian (1907–1990)

American actor

American singer and actor (1935–2024)

American comedian and actor (1906-1998)

American comedian and actor (1927–2004)

American comedian as one of the Three Stooges (1903-1952)

American comedian and actor (1895–1955)

American actor (1863-1915)

Danish-American comedian and actor

American comedian and actor (1957–2007)

American political commentator (born 1976)

American actor (1936–2021)

American actor

American television writer, director and producer

American singer-songwriter

American actor, comedian, and jazz drummer (1927-2011)

American actor

American comedian and actor (1914–2017)

American actor, voice actor, writer, producer and musician (1937-2001)