American parodists

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 actor (1933–2016)

American actor, comedian, and director (1895–1966)

Carl Reiner was an American actor, author, comedian, director, and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades. His awards and honors include 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999.

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.

Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer. He is the creator and star of the television series Family Guy and The Orville, and co-creator of the television series American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. He also co-wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in the films Ted, its sequel Ted 2, and A Million Ways to Die in the West.

American cartoonist (born 1954)

Robert Reiner was an American filmmaker, actor, and political activist. He directed a series of acclaimed studio films in a career that spanned comedy, drama, romance, and documentary. Reiner received numerous accolades, including winning two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Hugo Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and nine Golden Globe Awards. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999 and received the Chaplin Gala Tribute at the Film at Lincoln Center in 2014. Three of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry.

American stand-up comedian (1957–2022)

Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is best known for hosting the Comedy Central news satire show The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014, and the CBS talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since September 2015.

American science fiction author (1925–2012)

American actor

American film director (1899–1981)

American writer (1930–2024)

American animator and filmmaker (1912–2002)

British-American actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer and director

American animator and director (1908-1980)

American writer, editor, and professor (1931–1989)

American writer

American actor, writer, and comedian

American comedian and actor

American political satirist and journalist (1947–2022)

American actor and director (born 1975)

American actor, comedian, filmmaker

American movie director and writer (1944–2024)

American director and producer

Egyptian doctor and satirist

American film director, screenwriter, producer

American film director

American cartoonist (1924–1993)

American pornographic actor (1955–2008)

American writer, director, actor and comedian

American animator (1913–1984)

American cartonist and author

film director, actor (1902-1981)

founder of Pastafarianism

American film director

American animator, director, and screenwriter

American animator, illustrator, and director (1910-1977)

cartoonist (1909-1979)

American caricaturist and comics artist (1929–2020)

American comedy filmmaking trio

American comedy writer and performer

American pornographic actor

Uruguayan-American comedian, internet celebrity, and musician

American filmmaker (1895-1993)

American writer, co-founder and editor of National Lampoon (1946-1980)

American producer, writer, director

American artist (1922-2005)

American journalist and writer

American actor and writer (1940-1994)

American author and cartoonist (1933–2025)

American writer

American writer, editor, and artist (1925-2014)

American professional wrestler

American actor

American screenwriter

American illustrator (1921–2008)

American comic artist (1937–2002)

American author, editor and satirist (1862–1922)