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Kate McKinnon Net Worth

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Kate McKinnon net worth: Kate McKinnon is an American actress and comedian who has a net worth of $2 million dollars. Kate McKinnon was born in Sea Cliff, New York, and was originally interested in a career in music. She grew up playing the piano, cello, and guitar. She went on to graduate from Columbia University. She began her professional acting career in 2007, when she was cast on the show "Big Gay Sketch Show". She remained with the show for all three seasons that it aired. She then went on to appear on such shows as "Concierge: The Series", "We Have to Stop Now", "Vag Magazine", "I Wanna Have Your Baby", "My Best Day", "Hannah Has a Ho Phase", and "Hudson Valley Ballers". She has already provided character voices for such animated series as "Robotomy" and "The Venture Bros.". She is most widely recognized for her work as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live". On SNL, Kate is famous for her spot-on impressions of celebrities like Justin Bieber and Ellen Degeneres.

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Keegan-Michael Key Net Worth

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Keegan-Michael Key net worth: Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor and comedian who has a net worth of $2 million dollars. Keegan-Michael Key was born in Southfield, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit. He went on to graduate from the University of Detroit and then earned his Master's Degree from Pennsylvania State University School of Theatre. He began his professional on-camera career in the late 90s, and went on to appear in such projects as "Get the Hell Out of Hamtown", "ER", "Uncle Nino", and "I'm With Her". He first gained national recognition, when he joined the cast of "MADTv" in 2004. He has since gone on to appear in such projects as "Role Models", "Reno 911!", "Due Date", "The Wild Bunch", "Just Go With It", "Wanderlust", and "Wilfred". In 2012, he began writing and co-starring in his own series with fellow "MADTv" alum, Jordan Peele. The show, called "Key & Peele" has run for three hit seasons on Comedy Central.

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Lavell Crawford Net Worth

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Lavell Crawford net worth: Lavell Crawford is an American comedian, writer, and actor who has a net worth of $500 thousand dollars. Lavell Crawford was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Missouri. He began his professional acting career in the late 90s, appearing in the film, "Beverly Hood". Since then, he has gone on to appear in such projects as "The Jamie Foxx Show", "Baby's Momma Drama", "Friends and Lovers", "My Parents, My Sisters & Me", "Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed", "Workaholics", "Who's Watching the Kids", "What Goes Around Comes Around", "Je'Caryous Johnson's Marriage Material", "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", "The Crazy Ones", "Sperm Boat", "Super Fun Night", "4Play", and "For Love or Money". He has also provided voice over work for "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" and "Squidbillies". He is most widely recognized for his numerous comedy specials and for his recurring role on "Breaking Bad".

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Bryan Callen Net Worth

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Bryan Callen net worth: Bryan Callen is an American actor and comedian who has a net worth of $200 thousand dollars. Bryan Callen was born in the Philippines, and then went on to live in India, Lebanon, Pakistan, Greece, and Saudi Arabia. He then attended high school at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, and went on to earn a B.A. in History from American University in D.C. He began his professional acting career in 1995, appearing in both the film, "Mail Bonding", and as a cast member on the sketch comedy series, "MADtv". He appeared on "MADtv" through 1997, and then went on to appear in such film and television projects as "Oz", "Frasier", "Run Ronnie Run", "Live from Baghdad", "Deliver Us from Eva", "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "Bad Santa", "Old School", "Sex and the City", "The West Wing", "7th Heaven", "How I Met Your Mother", "Scary Movie 4″, "The Hangover" (and its sequel), "The Secret Life of the American Teenager", "In Plain Sight", "Californication", and "Ride Along", among many other programs and films.

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Sommore Net Worth

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Sommore net worth: Sommore is an American actress and comedian who has a net worth of $750 thousand dollars. Sommore, also known as Lori Ann Rambough, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and went on to graduate from Morris Brown College. She has appeared on multiple comedy specials, including "Def Comedy Jam" on HBO, "Showtime at the Apollo", "Comic View", and "BET Live in L.A.". She was also one of the featured comedians on the "Queens of Comedy". In addition to her stand up work, she has also played guest starring or supporting roles in such television and film projects as "The Hughleys", "The Parkers", "Friday After Next", "A Miami Tail", "Soul Plane", "Something New", and "Dirty Laundry". She has also appeared in the "Blunts & Stunts" video series and in two specials of her own, "Sommore: The Queen Stands Alone" and "Sommore: Chandelier Status". She is the half sister of actress, Nia Long.

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Taran Killam Net Worth

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Taran Killam net worth: Taran Killam is an American actor, voice-over artist, comedian, and writer who has a net worth of $4 million. He is best known for his work on the television shows The Amanda Show, Scrubs, Wild 'N Out, MADtv, Stuck in the Suburbs, and Saturday Night Live. Killam was born on April 1, 1982 in Culver City, California. He grew up in Big Bear Lake, California and attended UCLA for one year in 2000. In 1994, Killam made his first film appearance as an adolescent in Naked Gun 33⅓:The Final Insult and went on to appear in a number of films and television shows. He joined the cast in of MADtv as a featured player at the age of 19 during its seventh season. After appearing in MADtv, Killam was cast in Jake in Progress, Still Standing, Boston Public, Drake & Josh, Do Over, Roswell, and Judging Amy. He also appeared in Scrubs and in 2010 joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for their 36th season. Killam has been in films like Just Married, Big Fat Liar, Anderson's Cross, and My Best Friend's Girl. He is married to Canadian actress, Cobie Smulders, and the couple have one daughter, Shaelyn Cado Killam, who was born in 2009.

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John Pinette Net Worth

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John Pinette net worth: John Pinette was an American actor and stand-up comedian who had a net worth of $100 thousand. He toured the comedy club circuit in the 1980s and often offered up his size and large appetite as topics for his comedy routine. He was named the "funniest male stand-up comic of the year" at the American Comedy Awards in 1999 and also appeared in movies like Duets, My 5 Wives, The Punisher, Revenge of the Nerds III and IV, as well as appearing in episodes of television shows like ALF and the series finale of Seinfeld. He was born in Boston Massachusetts on March 23, 1964 and graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1986 with a degree in Accounting. He was urged by friends to pursue a career in comedy and got his first break when he was asked to tour with Frank Sinatra. He was also a regular guest on The Tonight Show and The View. More recently, Pinette was cast as the host of All You Can Eat, a television series that takes a humorous look at American cuisine and was winding down his tour weeks before his death. He died in a Pittsburgh hotel at age 50, just three months after he informed his fans that he was postponing his national stand-up tour because of health problems. Pinette had been suffering from liver and heart disease, and no autopsy was completed because both the medical examiner and Pinette's personal doctor signed off on the cause of death being a pulmonary embolism. He had a reputation among his friends and fellow comedians as a brilliant, incredibly funny, kind and generous man.

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Kevin Heffernan Net Worth

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Kevin Heffernan net worth: Kevin Heffernan is an American actor, writer, producer, and comedian, who has a net worth of $500 thousand dollars. Kevin Heffernan was born in West Haven, Connecticut and went on to graduate from Colgate University. While at Colgate, he began performing comedy with a group called Charred Goosebreak. Charred Goosebreak later became known as Broken Lizard, and the members of the ensemble have continued to write, direct, and produce comedy projects together since the late 90s. After completing his studies at Colgate, Kevin Heffernan also went on to graduate from Brooklyn Law School. His professional acting career began in 1998, with a small role in the film, "No Looking Back". Since then, he has gone on to appear in such projects as "Big Helium Dog", "Super Troopers", "Club Dread", "The Dukes of Hazzard", "Sky High", "Beerfest", "Strange Wilderness", and "The Slammin' Salmon", which he also directed.

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Jonathan Mangum Net Worth

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Jonathan Mangum net worth: Jonathan Mangum is an American actor and comedian who has a net worth of $500 thousand dollars. Jonathan Mangum was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and grew up in Alabama. He went on to graduate from the University of Central Florida with a degree in Psychology. He began performing stand-up and improv comedy at SAK Comedy Club. One of his fellow performers at that time was Wayne Brady. He relocated to Los Angeles in the mid-90s to pursue a career in comedy full-time, and went on to appear on such television shows as "Clarissa Explains It All", "SeaQuest DSV", "Roseanne", "Married… with Children", "Clueless", "Just Shoot Me!", "ER", "Strip Mall", "30 Seconds to Fame", "The Drew Carey Show", "Reno 911!", "Come On Over", "Pushing Daisies", "NCIS", "The Sarah Silverman Program", and "Trust Us with Your Life". He is most widely recognized as the announcer for "Let's Make a Deal", and for his appearances on "Drew Carey's Improv-a-Ganza".

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Nick Thune Net Worth

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Nick Thune net worth: Nick Thune is an American actor, comedian and musician who has a net worth of $200 thousand. Thune has appeared on The Tonight Show eight times, and was featured in a Comedy Central Presents special in 2007. Aside from his standup gigs, he has also appeared in movies like Knocked Up and Unaccompanied Minors. Early in his acting career, Thune was cast in the starring role of American sitcom Roman Empire that was set to air on ABC. Roman Empire was produced by Ashton Kutcher and Thune played the lead character, Leo, in the pilot episode. The show was based off of the original series, also called Roman Empire, which appears on the BBC. The show was passed on by ABC in January of 2009, and although the pilot was produced, it never aired. In 2010, he released his debut album, Thick Noon, and was also cast in the NBC pilot for Beach Lane with Matthew Broderick; unfortunately the pilot was also not picked up as a series. He later made guest appearances on the comedy programs Traffic Light, Happy Endings, and Don't Trust the B—- in Apartment 23. Thune was born on December 8, 1979 in Seattle, Washington and has one sister and twin brothers. He moved to Los Angeles when he was 24 to pursue his career in comedy and continues to live there today with his wife, Suzanne Trudell Thune.

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Brian Quinn Net Worth

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Brian Quinn net worth: Brian Quinn is a producer and actor who has a net worth of $500 thousand. He is best known for his work on Impractical Jokers, but has also worked on Class of Nuke 'Em High, and is a co-host of the popular weekly podcast, Tell 'Em Steve-Dave Puppet Theatre with his friends Bryan Johnson and Walter Flanagan of Mallrats. He is a member of the New York comedy troupe, The Tenderloins, and has also toured England with a live version of the podcast Space Monkeys and What Say You?. Brian was born on March 14, 1976 and attended Brooklyn College as well as the College of Staten Island. He formed The Tenderloins with his three high school friends, (James Murray, Joe Gatto, and Sal Vulcano) in 1999, and the troupe has performed improvisation, live sketch comedy, and Long Form improv. His biggest hit, Impractical Jokers, is an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television show that premiered on True TV in 2011. It follows the four members of the comedy troupe, The Tenderloins, as they encourage one another to do public pranks that are filmed on hidden camera. While one cast-member performs the prank, the other comedians are feeding lines to their friend via an earpiece. The show is currently airing its third season, and has been given the go ahead for a fourth season in addition to a 6-episode spinoff called, Jokers Wild.

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Lenny Clarke Net Worth

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Lenny Clarke net worth: Lenny Clark is an American comedian and actor who has a net worth of $500 thousand. He is best known for his thick Boston accent and for his role as "Uncle Teddy" on the series, Rescue Me. Lenny Clarke was born on September 16, 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts and attended the University of Massachusetts. In the1980s, during the height of the Boston comedy scene, Clarke was one of the most famous stand-up comedians of the time. Throughout his career, he has starred in his own short-lived network sitcom, Lenny and has made appearances in a wide variety of shows, including Rescue Me, Contest Searchlight, the Job, The John Larroquette Show, It's All Relative, The Winner, and Are You There, Chelsea?. He has also appeared in several movies, including Monument Ave., Fever Pitch, and Southie, and was a writer known for The John Larroquette Show, Rounders, and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Clarke is an occasional guest on the WEEI radio shows in Boston, and also appeared on the stage during the victory speech of Republican Senator, Scott Brown, who was elected to the Senate to fill Edward Kennedy's seat. Clarke has been married to Jennifer Miller since October 1996.

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Steven Wright Net Worth

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Steven Wright net worth: Steven Wright is an American comedian, actor, and writer who has a net worth of $800 thousand dollars. Steven Wright was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and grew up in Burlington, Massachusetts. He went on to graduate from Emerson College in the late 70s, and began performing stand-up comedy soon after completing his schooling. He got his big break in the early 80s, when Peter Lassally, a producer for "The Tonight Show", saw one of his sets at a comedy club in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to perform on "The Tonight Show", and his performance was so well received, that he returned later that week to perform again. He released his first comedy album, "I Have a Pony" in 1985. It received a Grammy nomination, and led to an HBO special and extensive touring. He won an Oscar in 1989 for his short film, "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings". He continues to tour and record albums.

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Ike Barinholtz Net Worth

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Ike Barinholtz net worth: Ike Barinholtz is an American actor, comedian, and writer who has a net worth of $400 thousand dollars. Ike Barinholtz was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was originally interested in becoming a politician. He subsequently shifted his focus, and after graduating from high school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career full-time. After working as a busboy and telemarketer, he decided to return to school, and enrolled at Boston University. He subsequently dropped out and moved to Chicago, where he worked for the Chicago Transit Authority, while pursuing a career in comedy. He began studying with The Second City Improv, and other improv schools in the Chicago area, and in 2002, he began working on the sketch comedy show, "MADTv". He has since gone on to appear in such film and television projects as "Meet the Spartans", "Disaster Movie", "Eastbound and Down", "The Mindy Project", and "Neighbors".

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Bruce McCulloch Net Worth

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Bruce McCulloch Net Worth: Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director who has a net worth of $800 thousand. Bruce Ian McCulloch was on May 12, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is married to Tracy Ryan in 2003, whom he had two children, Ivy Sue and Otis, ages nine and seven respectively at present. He graduated from Strathcona Composite High School in Edmonton, where he earned provincial individual titles both in track-and-field and swimming competitions. He studied journalism and public relations at Mount Royal College but did not graduate. Instead, he took acting classes and started performing at Calgary-based TheaterSports and then Loose Moose Theater Company where he met his fellow Mark McKinney. They crossed paths with Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald in 1984, marking the birth of the comedy troupe, The Kids in the Hall. Scott Thompson joined later as the fifth member of the group.

McCulloch is known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall. He frequently wrote quirky monologues, films and songs. He also characterized Flying Pig, Cabbage Head, precocious boy Gavin, and grumpy middle-aged man Gordon. They had a successful five-year-run on HBO. Following their cancellation in 1994, McCulloch served a brief period as a Saturday Night Live writer before the troupe regrouped and filmed Brain Candy which was released in 1996. Moreover, he starred in television series such as Anne of Avonlea, Twitch City and Gilmore Girls, and in films which include Dick (1999) and Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982).

He had written and directed the film Dog Park in 1998 which won the Best Original Screenplay at the Genie Awards in 2000, and was nominated for Original Writing for a Film and Film Direction Categories at the 2000 Canadian Comedy Awards. In addition, he directed the romantic comedy Comeback Season in 2006, Stealing Harvard in 2002 and SNL's Superstar in 1999. He was also the writer of ABC's Carpooler. Aside from being an actor, he co-wrote and produced the Kids in the Hall reunion project Death Comes to Town in 2010.

He had contributions in music industry as well releasing two comedy albums, the Shame-Based Man produced by Bob Wiseman in 1995, and Drunk Baby Project in 2002. He directed the music video for the Tragically Hip's song, My Music at Work, for which he was recognized as Best Director at the 2000 MuchMusic Video Awards.

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Eric André Net Worth

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Eric Andre net worth: Eric Andre is an American actor, comedian, and television host who has a net worth of $500 thousand dollars. Eric Andre was born in Boca Raton, Florida, and began his professional career in both film and television in 2009. He appeared in small roles in the film "The Invention of Lying" and the television show, "Curb Your Enthusiasm". Since then, he has gone on to appear in such film and television projects as "The Big Bang Theory", "Zeke and Luther", "Hot in Cleveland", "Fact Checkers Unit", "The Internship", and "2 Broke Girls". He is most widely recognized for his work as Mark Reynolds on "Don't Trust the B—- in Apartment 23″, and as the host of "The Eric Andre Show" on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim cartoon block. In addition to his on-camera work, he has also provided voices for various episodes of "Lucas Bros. Moving Co."

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Rik Mayall Net Worth

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Rik Mayall net worth: Rik Mayall was an English comedian, writer, actor, and director who had a net worth of $5 million dollars. Rik Mayall was born in Harlow, Essex, England, and grew up in the theater. His parents were acting teachers, and he began his performing career appearing in their productions. He went on to study drama at the University of Manchester, where he met his comedy partner, Ade Edmondson. He first made a name for himself performing with Edmondson at the Comedy Store. From there, he branched out into television and film appearances. Throughout the 80s, he gained wider and wider popularity in the UK and Australia, appearing on such shows as "Black Adder", and in his own comedy series, "The Young Ones". He then went on to appear in such projects as "The New Statesman", "Bottom", "The Bill", "Jonathan Creek", "Agatha Christie's Marple", and "Man Down". He is most widely recognized for his popular series, "The Comic Strip Presents…" and the film "Drop Dead Fred". He also enjoyed a prolific voice over career and appeared in multiple professional theater productions. He passed away on June 9, 2014.

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Bert Kreischer Net Worth

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Bert Kreischer Net worth: Bert Kreischer is an American stand-up comedian, actor and reality television host with a net worth of $1 million. Dubbed as "The Machine", he has never aspired or dreamed of becoming a comedian. But as fate would have it comedy found him and thus became one of the most popular comics today. Born Albert Kreischer on November 3, 1973 in Tampa Florida, he enrolled at Florida State University where he became a member of the Alpha Tau Omega and remained six years on the campus. It was in 1997 that Rolling Stone Magazine went to the number one party school in the country and "discovered" the man-child, Bert Kreischer. Actually, he was featured in the mag as the "number one partier in the nation". Silly as it may sound but the article opened opportunities for him. In 1998, he was already working as a stand-up comedian at the Boston Comedy Club. He was then offered a television deal from Overbrook Entertainment, a production company partly owned by Will Smith. In 1999, he was co-hosting FX's "The X-Show", which he had a segment called "Hurt Bert" that later developed into his own show with the same title. As for his acting debut, he made it in the CBS/20th Century Fox pilot, "Life with David J". Later on, he starred in such television shows as VH1′s "Never Mind the Buzz!$#!#s", Comedy Central's "Shorties Watching Shorties", NBC's "Last Comic Standing", and FX's "The Shield". He performed part of his stand-up routine on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, participated in the reality show, "Reality Bites Back", and hosted Spike TV's "Fresh Baked Video Game". He also had guest appearances on "Jimmy Kimmel Live", "Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Rachael Ray Show". In 2009, Kreischer had his stand-up comedy special on Comedy Central entitled, "Bert Kreischer: Comfortably Dumb". In 2010, he became the host of the reality show, "Bert the Conqueror", discovering local traditions, thrills and competitions for Travel Channel. If he is not on trips, viewers can find him touring comedy clubs and colleges throughout the United States making people laugh.

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Scott Adsit Net Worth

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Scott Adsit net worth – Scott Adsit is an American writer, actor and comedian who has a net worth of $5 million dollars. Robert Scott Adsit was born in Northbrook, Illinois, in 1965 and attended Columbia College Chicago before joining the famous comedy club The Second City in 1994. He is best known for his long-standing role on "30 Rock" as Pete Hornberger. Adsit appeared in 97 episodes of the series and won a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. He made his on-screen debut in 1998 in "Temporary Girl" and would go on to appear in "Town and Country", "Malcolm in the Middle", "Alias", "Monk", "Without a Paddle", Kicking and Screaming", "The Office" and "We're the Millers."

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John Belushi Net Worth

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John Belushi Net Worth: John Belushi was an American actor, comedian, and musician who had a net worth of $2 million dollars. Born John Adam Belushi in January 24, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois to an Armenian family, he was raised in Wheaton along with his two brothers and sister. He studied at the Wheaton Central High School, where he would recognize his talent for comedy. As for his big break in the genre, he made it in 1971 when he was hired by the National Lampoons Radio Hour as a writer. Belushi became famous as part of the original cast of NBC´s hit sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL), which he joined in 1975. His notorious and vivacious character and ease of comedy made him recognized as a great actor and comedian. As for his style, it was deemed very energetic and raunchy. Wanting to pursue a more solid acting career, Belushi abandoned SNL in 1979 along with his friend and fellow actor Dan Akroyd which became his close friend. He made a few movies including his most noticeable film: "The Blues Brother". The inspiration for this movie came from Belushi´s love for blues and soul music. Belushi started snorting cocaine in the middle 70s and he became addicted to it almost immediately. His addiction was a cause of friction between him and his high-school-sweetheart wife, Judy Jacklin whom he had married in 1976. In the beginning of 1982, Belushi was working on the screenplay of a movie that was going to be called "Noble Rot". This project was not concluded since he was found dead in his hotel room on March 5, 1982 due to an overdose of "speedball" (a mixture of cocaine and heroin) at the age of 33.

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