The Most Famous

COMEDIANS from Yemen

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This page contains a list of the greatest Yemeni Comedians. The pantheon dataset contains 98 Comedians, 1 of which were born in Yemen. This makes Yemen the birth place of the 6th most number of Comedians behind Japan, and Brazil.

Top 1

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Yemeni Comedians of all time. This list of famous Yemeni Comedians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Eddie Izzard (b. 1962)

With an HPI of 49.73, Eddie Izzard is the most famous Yemeni Comedian.  His biography has been translated into 50 different languages on wikipedia.

Suzy Eddie Izzard ( IZ-ard; born Edward John Izzard, 7 February 1962, often known professionally as Eddie Izzard), is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime. Izzard's stand-up comedy tours have included Live at the Ambassadors (1993), Definite Article (1996), Glorious (1997), Dress to Kill (1998), Circle (2000), Stripped (2009), Force Majeure (2013) and Wunderbar (2022). She starred in the television series The Riches (2007–2008) and has appeared in numerous films, including Ocean's Twelve (2004), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Absolutely Anything (2015) and Six Minutes to Midnight (2020). Izzard has also worked as a voice actor on films such as Five Children and It (2004), The Wild (2006), The Lego Batman Movie (2017) and the Netflix original series Green Eggs and Ham (2019). Among various accolades, she won two Primetime Emmys for Dress to Kill and was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway performance in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. In 2009, Izzard completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief, despite having no history of long-distance running. In 2016, she ran 27 marathons in 27 days in South Africa in honour of Nelson Mandela, raising £1.35 million. In addition to her native English, she has performed stand-up in Arabic, French, German, Russian and Spanish, and is an active supporter of Europeanism and the European Union. A dedicated Labour Party activist, Izzard twice ran unsuccessfully for the party's National Executive Committee and then joined as the most successful initially non-elected person after Christine Shawcroft resigned in March 2018. In 2022 and 2023, Izzard attempted to become the party's prospective parliamentary candidate (for Sheffield Central and Brighton Pavilion respectively); she was not selected in the members' ballots.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Yemeni comedians born between 1962 and 1962. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Yemeni comedians include Eddie Izzard.

Living Yemeni Comedians

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