"Funniest Comedian JORDAN KLEPPER vs KEVIN KLINE"

JORDAN KLEPPER

Jordan Klepper (born March 9, 1979) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. Klepper began his...

Jordan Klepper (born March 9, 1979) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. Klepper began his career as a member of The Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade, where he met his wife Laura Grey. Soon after, they began writing, producing, and starring in their own short films. In 2014 Klepper became a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as host. He remained on the show (through the transition to new host Trevor Noah) until 2017, when he started his own satirical program, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper. The Opposition was cancelled in 2018, after one season. Klepper then starred in the 2019 docuseries, Klepper, which aired in 2019. He returned to The Daily Show in December 2019. Jordan Klepper, the oldest of his siblings, is from Kalamazoo, Michigan. His mother, Betse Klepper, is a lead secretary at Loy Norrix High School. His father, Mark Klepper, was a roommate of actor Tim Allen while attending Western Michigan University. Allen introduced his cousin, Betse, to Mark, and they eventually married. Klepper attended Kalamazoo Central High School and Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center, where he was a tennis player and a member of the Mock Trial Team that won Nationals. He graduated as a Heyl scholar in 1997. He double-majored in math and theater at Kalamazoo College and received his degree in 2001. Klepper studied abroad in London. At Kalamazoo College, he met Steven Yeun through his sister.

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KEVIN KLINE

Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American actor. He has won an Oscar and three Tony Awards and is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fam...

Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American actor. He has won an Oscar and three Tony Awards and is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee. Kline began his career on stage in 1972 with The Acting Company. He has gone on to win three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway, winning Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the 1978 original production of On the Twentieth Century, Best Actor in a Musical for the 1981 revival of The Pirates of Penzance, and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the 2017 revival of Present Laughter. He made his film debut in Sophie's Choice (1982). For his role in the 1988 comedy hit A Fish Called Wanda, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2003, he starred as Falstaff in the Broadway production of Henry IV, for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play. He has been nominated for two Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. His other films include The Big Chill (1983), Silverado (1985), Cry Freedom (1987), Grand Canyon (1991), Dave (1993), The Ice Storm (1997), In & Out (1997), Wild Wild West (1999), De-Lovely (2004), The Conspirator (2010), My Old Lady (2014), and Beauty and the Beast (2017). Kline has voiced characters in the films The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Road to El Dorado (2000), The Tale of Despereaux (2008) and the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers (2011–present), for which he earned a Primetime Emmy nomination. Kline was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Margaret Agnes Kirk and Robert Joseph Kline (1909–1996). His father was a classical music lover and an amateur opera singer who owned and operated The Record Bar, a record store in St. Louis that opened in the early 1940s, and also sold toys during the 1960s and 1970s; his father's family also owned Kline's Inc., a department store chain. Kline has described his mother as the "dramatic theatrical character in our family". Kline's father was Jewish, from a family that had emigrated from Germany, and had become an agnostic. Kline's mother was a Catholic of Irish descent, the daughter of an emigrant from County Louth. Kline was raised in his mother's Catholic faith.

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