"Funniest Comedian KEITH WANN vs PATRICK WARBURTON"
KEITH WANN
Keith Wann has been performing since 2002, starting with an ASL Improv group, and then in 2004 started his solo career which quickly took off in 2006 due to his viral You Tube ASL video parody rendition of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby”. As a hearing child of Deaf adults, or CODA, Wann is a performing ASL artist and has been featured in several short films with ASL. He currently stars in a popular ASL Children's book iTunes APP, is also a writer/actor for "Sign It! American Sign Language Made Easy" (a new Signing Time Foundation project), and has done the annual "Read for the Record" story since 2009. Keith Wann has also done several commercials for Pepsi, appeared in Law and Order, Quantico, and several short films, and he travels the United States performing almost every weekend with his solo show and the ASL Comedy Tour. Along with performing Keith also teaches workshops and maintains his National Certification as an interpreter, NIC:Master and CI/CT and has been an artistic ASL consultant on video projects including the artist Sia. Respected in the industry as an ASL advocate, Keith has reached across the cultural divide between deaf and hearing worlds through humor, to bridge misconceptions and cultural gaps. After changing careers from interpreting to personal development, Keith and his wife Emilia joined LegalShield as independent associates and now travel all over the nation providing affordable access to the legal system and focusing on providing personal development to the ASL Community.
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PATRICK WARBURTON
Patrick John Warburton (born November 14, 1964) is an American television, film and voice actor. On television, he has played David Puddy on Seinfeld, the title role on The Tick, Jeb Denton on Less Than Perfect, Jeff Bingham on Rules of Engagement and Lemony Snicket on A Series of Unfortunate Events, His voice acting roles include Joe Swanson on Family Guy, Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove, Brock Samson on The Venture Bros., Flynn in Skylanders and Hugo Vasquez in Tales from the Borderlands. In advertising, he plays a "control enthusiast" in commercials for National Car Rental. Warburton is the son of orthopedic surgeon John Charles Warburton Jr. and Barbara Jeanne Gratz (an actress credited as Barbara Lord). He and his three sisters, Mary, Lara, and Megan, were raised in a "very religious" and "conservative" Catholic family in Huntington Beach, California, where he attended Saints Simon and Jude Catholic School. Warburton later attended Servite High School (in Anaheim, California), and later transferred to Newport Harbor High School (in Newport Beach, California). He studied marine biology at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, but dropped out to pursue modeling and acting.