"Funniest Comedian LESLEY JOSEPH vs COLIN JOST"

LESLEY JOSEPH

Lesley Diana Joseph (born 14 October 1945) is an English actress and broadcaster, best known for playing Dorien Green in the television sitcom Birds o...

Lesley Diana Joseph (born 14 October 1945) is an English actress and broadcaster, best known for playing Dorien Green in the television sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998, and again from 2014 onwards. Other television credits include Absurd Person Singular (1985) and Night and Day (2001–2003). Her stage roles include UK touring productions of Thoroughly Modern Millie (2005), Calendar Girls (2011) and Annie (2015). In 2018, she was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, for the original West End production of Young Frankenstein. Joseph was born in Hackney, east London and grew up in Kingsthorpe, Northampton. She attended Northampton School for Girls. Joseph's mother, Rebecca Mundy (née Maccoby), was born in May 1912 and died in March 2016, aged 103. In May 1973, Joseph appeared in Godspell at the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth. Joseph starred in Cinderella at Theatre Royal, Plymouth in 2008 and the Orchard Theatre in Dartford in 2009, and starred as Myra Wilson in the UK Tour of Hot Flush!. In 2014, Hot Flush! embarked on its third UK tour. From 4 December 2010 to 22 January 2011, she appeared at The Grand Opera House, Belfast as the Wicked Queen in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In the summer of 2011, Joseph appeared as Chris in the stage show Calendar Girls, based on the film of the same name. In 2014/15, she appeared at the Theatre Royal Nottingham as the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In 2015, she appeared as Miss Hannigan in the stage production of Annie at certain venues, sharing the role with Jodie Prenger and Elaine C Smith she also starred as the fairy godmother in Cinderella at the cliffs pavilion (Southend on sea). In 2016/17, she starred in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Joseph then portrayed Frau Blucher in the West End production of Young Frankenstein.

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COLIN JOST

Colin Kelly Jost (born June 29, 1982) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He has been a writer for Saturday Night Live since 2005 and Weekend...

Colin Kelly Jost (born June 29, 1982) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He has been a writer for Saturday Night Live since 2005 and Weekend Update co-anchor since 2014. He also served as one of the show's co-head writers from 2012 to 2015, and later came back as one of the show's head writers in 2017. Colin Jost was born and raised in New York City in the Grymes Hill neighborhood of Staten Island, the elder of two children. His mother, Kerry J. Kelly, was the chief medical officer for the New York City Fire Department, and his father, Daniel A. Jost, is a former teacher at Staten Island Technical High School. Raised Roman Catholic, he attended Regis High School in Manhattan, where he was the editor of the school newspaper The Owl. He attended Harvard University, where he majored in history and literature, with a focus on Russian literature and British literature and graduated cum laude in 2004. While at Harvard, he was president of the Harvard Lampoon.While at Harvard, Jost won $5,250 on a college edition of Weakest Link. After graduation, he worked as a reporter and copy-editor for the Staten Island Advance. He was then hired as a writer for the short-lived Nickelodeon animated show, Kappa Mikey. After leaving the show, he sent in a writing packet and was hired as a writer at NBC's Saturday Night Live in 2005.

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