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Conan O'Brien is an Emmy-winning American television personality best known as the host of the late-night talk/variety show Late Night With Conan O'Brien

E! Entertainment Television and national broadcast superstar Ryan Seacrest have inked a multiyear deal that calls for the popular personality to appear on air and to develop and produce multiple series projects for the network under his Ryan Seacrest Productions banner

Howie Mandel is a Canadian stand-up comedian, television host and actor best known as the host of the television game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show's syndicated and Canadian counterparts

Jeff Probst is an American game show host, executive producer, reporter and talk show host best known as the Emmy Award-winning host of the reality competition television series Survivor

Tom Bergeron is an American television personality and game show host, best known for hosting America's Funniest Home Videos (since 2001) and Dancing with the Stars (since 2005)

Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor best known for his television roles as the teenage doctor Doogie Howser, M.D. and the womanising Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother.

Jimmy Fallon is an American stand up comedian, television host and actor best known as the host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a late-night talk show

Jimmy Kimmel is an American television talk-show host and comedian best known for hosting the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live and for co-creating and presenting The Man Show

Steve Allen (26 December, 1921 – 30 October, 2000) was an American television personality, musician, actor, comedian and writer

Johnny Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, for 30 years

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Bill Cosby is an American actor, comedian, television producer and activist best known for his iconic eighties sitcom The Cosby Show

Dick Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian and dancer best known for his starring roles in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Dick Van Dyke Show in the 1960s, and Diagnosis: Murder as Dr

Alan Alda is an American actor, writer and director best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H, from 1972-1983

Henry Winkler is an American actor, director, producer and author best known for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the popular sitcom Happy Days, from 1974–1984

John Forsythe is an American actor best known for his role as patriarch Blake Carrington in the eighties soap opera Dynasty

Tom Selleck is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his starring role on the television show Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988), which garnered him both an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series, as well as five People's Choice Awards, four Emmy nominations and six Golden Globe nominations.

David Letterman is an award-winning American television personality, late night talk show host, television producer, Indy Racing League car owner and philanthropist

Bruce Willis is an American actor and singer who came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor

John Larroquette is an American actor best known for his role as Dan Fielding on the sitcom Night Court (1984-1992), and as Carl Sack in the dramedy Boston Legal, from 2007-2008

Jay Leno is an American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC television's long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show

Dennis Miller is an American stand-up comedian, political/sports commentator and television/radio personality who rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s, and subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC and in syndication

Tim Allen is an American comedian, actor, voice-over artist and entertainer best known for his starring role as Tim Taylor in the sitcom Home Improvement (1991-1999) and for his roles in the Disney film series of The Santa Clause and Toy Story

Jason Alexander is an American actor best known for his role as George Costanza on the television sitcom Seinfeld, from 1989-1998

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Paul Reiser is an American comedian, actor, television personality, author, screenwriter and musician best known for his starring role as charming (though not without his faults) and always-loving husband Paul Buchman, a first-time father and multi-talented documentary maker, in the television sitcom Mad About You, from 1992-1999

David Hyde Pierce is an American actor best known for his role as psychiatrist Dr

Brad Garrett is an American actor best known for his role as Ray Barone's brother Robert in the award-winning sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, from 1996-2005

George Lopez is a Mexican-American comedian, actor and producer, best known for creating, writing, producing and starring in the eponymous television sitcom George Lopez, from 2002-2007

Bernie Mac (5 October, 1957 – 9 August, 2008) was an American actor and comedian who gained popularity as a stand-up comedian and was best known as one of the Original Kings of Comedy with Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D.L. Hughley.

Martin Short is a Canadian/American actor, writer, and producer best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live; as well as in the movies ¡Three Amigos! (1986) and Three Fugitives (1989)

Jon Stewart is an American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, and producer best known as the host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and for his political satire

Seth Meyers is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, television host and comedian best known as a former head writer for NBC's Saturday Night Live and for hosting its news parody segment Weekend Update.

Andy Samberg is an American comedian, singer, rapper, actor and writer best known for being a cast member on Saturday Night Live and a member of the comedy group The Lonely Island

Cedric the Entertainer is an American actor and comedian best known as the co-star of the sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, as Eddie in the Barbershop films, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Original Kings of Comedy

Heidi Klum is a German supermodel, actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer and singer. She is also the hostess of Project Runway and Germany's Next Topmodel, and is known for her modeling work with Victoria's Secret.

Jane Lynch is an American actress best known for her starring role as Sue Sylvester, the coach of the cheerleading squad, in the musical series Glee.

Mary Tyler Moore was an American actress best known for her roles in the television sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Angie Dickinson is an American actress best known for her roles in the films Rio Bravo and Dressed to Kill, and for starring on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman

Cheryl Ladd is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Kris Munroe on the television series Charlie's Angels, after she replaced Farrah Fawcett from the second season onwards (1977-1981)

Shirley MacLaine is an American actress, singer, dancer, activist and author best known for her award-winning roles in the feature films The Apartment, Irma la Douce, Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias

Joan Rivers is an American comedian, television personality and actress known for her brash manner, her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent, as well as her numerous cosmetic surgeries

Shelley Long is an American actress and comedienne best known for her role as barmaid Diane Chambers in the television sitcom Cheers, from 1982-1993

Candice Bergen is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model, best known for her starring role on the television sitcom Murphy Brown, and as William Shatner's legal partner, Shirley Schmidt, on the dramedy Boston Legal

Kirstie Alley was an American actress and comedienne known for her starring role as Rebecca Howe in the television sitcom Cheers.

Angela Lansbury is an American actress best known for her role as Jessica Fletcher in the television crime series Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996), which was one of the longest running detective drama series in US television history and made her one of the highest paid actresses in the world

Ellen DeGeneres is an American actress, stand-up comedian and daytime talk show host, best known for her sitcom Ellen (in an episode of which she came "out of the closet") and for her syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Patricia Richardson is an American actress best known for her role as Jill Taylor on the sitcom Home Improvement, playing the role in 195 episodes from 1991-1999

Cybill Shepherd is an American actress, singer and former fashion model best known for her role as Maddie Hayes on the television show Moonlighting, and for her own sitcom Cybill

Oprah Winfrey is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history

Jenna Elfman is an American actress best known for her role as Dharma Finkelstein Montgomery on the television sitcom Dharma & Greg, from 1997-2002, for which she garnered a Golden Globe Award, three Emmy Award nominations and two TV Guide Awards.

Wanda Sykes is an American stand-up comedienne and actress best known for her starring role as Barb on the television sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine, from 2006-2010