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1. Stan Freberg -- Commercials
   Stan Freberg is the genius who created the funny commercial, as well as humor and satire such as Green Chri$tma$, Elderly Man River, and many other routines. This collection is representative of his excellent work.
2. Weird Al -- Weird Al Yankovic
   Weird Al is the most successful comedy artist ever, particularly in an era where comedy records don't sell like they used to. He's most known for his parodies of popular songs (like Beat It), although his albums are half-or-more original songs. He ... typically puts a polka medley of popular songs on each record (only two haven't got one -- "Weird Al" Yankovic and Even Worse). He's made a film and had his own Saturday Morning TV show. He's also directed music videos for himself as well as Ben Folds, Hanson and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and produced tracks for other artists. He's currently working on a new record.
3. Leslie Nielsen -- Naked Gun
   Canadian funnyman Leslie Nielsen hails from Regina, Saskatchewan, where he was born to an RCMP officer. He and his two brothers moved around with their parents until they were old enough to attend school. Settling in Edmonton, he attended school until graduating from high school. Nielsen then went on to become an aerial gunner in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
4. Stan Freberg -- Records
   [N]ot long after the Capitol release of the augmented CD of Vol. 1, Richard Foos, the president of Rhino Records, started asking Freberg to record for his company. Finally Stan offered him Vol. 2: The Middle Years. Of the resulting album, Freberg says, "I used some of the material from the David Merrick era, added to it, and updated it." Significantly it covers the same period as the proposed musical in its nearly 69 minutes, ending with the end of "the war to end all wars."
5. The Monkees -- Jack Nicholson
   After the television show was cancelled, Rafelson directed the four Monkees in a feature film, Head, executive-produced by Schneider and co-written and co-produced by Rafelson with a then, relatively unknown actor named Jack Nicholson. The film, created and edited in a stream of consciousness style, featured cameo appearances by movie star Victor Mature and musician Frank Zappa. It was not a commercial success. This was in part because it comprehensively demolished the group's carefully-groomed public image, as evidenced by the following stanzas from Rafelson and Nicholson's 'Ditty-Diego' (recited at the start of the film by the Monkees), which ruthlessly parodies Boyce and Hart's 'Monkees Theme':
6. Robert Conrad -- Wild Wild West
   Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk or Konrad Robert Falkowski on March 1, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American film and TV actor and director. He is primarily known for the 1965-1969 television series The Wild Wild West, in which he played the title character, James West. The movie remake starring Will Smith was based on this series, and Conrad was openly critical of the film.
7. Mary Tyler Moore -- Mary Richards
   The Mary Tyler Moore Show was one of the most literate, realistic, and enduring situation comedies of the 1970s. Unlike the efforts generated by producer Norman Lear, typified by All in the Family and Maude, there was never a conscious attempt to humiliate or ridicule. Mary Richards was the idealized single career woman. She had come to Minneapolis after breaking up with a man she had been dating for two years. Ambitious, and looking for new friends, she moved into an older apartment building and went to work as an assistant producer of the local news show on television station WJM-TV. In her early 30s, Mary symbolized the independent woman of the 1970s.
8. Candice Michelle -- Daddy Girl
   Candice Michelle is a dominant diva who isn't scared to get ahead by any means possible. That's why there are so many Candice Michelle nude images and Candice Michelle nude videos. She has posed in playboy, took part in soft core porn (hotel erotica) and pushed the boundries of advertising in her raunchy Go Daddy commercials.
9. Natural Born Killers -- Movies
   Most films today are afraid to try anything new. Natural Born Killers is an explosive device for the sleepy movie audience, a wake-up call in the form of a frag bomb. [29 August 1994, p.66]
10. Adam West -- Warner Bros
    Whitman College graduate Adam West began getting his first acting breaks in 1959. That was the year that West, newly signed to a Warner Bros. contract, was cast in the small but pivotal role of Diane Brewster's impotent husband in The Young Philadelphians. After two years' worth of guest-star assignments in Warners' TV product (he was hung by his heels and humiliated by James Garner in a memorable Maverick episode), West accepted the role of Sergeant Steve Nelson on the weekly TVer Robert Taylor's Detectives.

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