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Elayne Boosler

Elayne Boosler

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1952-08-18
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Known For & Full Filmography22 Titles

#1Hollywood Squares

Drama Series - 1998, 16 episodes • as Self - Panelist

7.6 / 10

On September 14, 1998, a Hollywood Squares revival debuted with Tom Bergeron as its host. In addition to her production duties, Whoopi Goldberg served as the permanent center square, with series head writer Bruce Vilanch, Gilbert Gottfried, Martin Mull, and Caroline Rhea as regular panelists and Brad Garrett, Bobcat Goldthwait, Jeffrey Tambor, George Wallace, Kathy Griffin and various others as semi-regular panelists. Shadoe Stevens returned to announce, although he was not given a square on the panel as he had been when John Davidson was host.

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#2Night Court

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Joy Buscaglia

7.3 / 10
Comedy

An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.

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#3The Cosby Show

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Dr. Strauss

7.0 / 10
ComedyFamily

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.

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#4Duckman

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes • as Mayor Gallagher (voice)

7.2 / 10
AnimationComedy

Together with Cornfed, his portly, porcine partner in crime solving, this defective detective amazingly manages to solve crimes and be a single parent to his hilariously dysfunctional sons at the same time.

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#5Late Night with David Letterman

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Self - Guest

6.1 / 10
ComedyTalk

Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC that was created and hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 as the first incarnation of the Late Night franchise and went off the air in 1993, after Letterman left NBC and moved to Late Show on CBS. Late Night with Conan O'Brien then filled the time slot. As of March 2, 2009, the slot has been filled by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. It will be filled by Seth Meyers in the spring of 2014, after Fallon becomes host of The Tonight Show.

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#6Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Self

6.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

Rebecca Bunch is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything - her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan - in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, California.

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#7The Nice Guys

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Self (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
ComedyCrimeAction

A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

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#8Dear John

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes • as Joanne

5.7 / 10
Comedy

Dear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is dumped by his wife, Wendy, via a Dear John letter. Wendy ends up with everything in the divorce settlement, including custody of the couple's son, forcing John to move into an apartment in Ozone Park, Queens. John soon joins the One-2-One Club, a self help group for divorced, widowed or lonely people. The group is led by Louise (Jane Carr), a sex-obsessed British woman. Other members of the group include Kate McCarron (Isabella Hofmann), a sweet divorcée; Kirk Morris (Jere Burns), a cocky ladies' man; Ralph Drang (Harry Groener), a shy and neurotic tollbooth collector; Bonnie Philbert (Billie Bird), a feisty senior citizen; and Tom, Mrs. Philbert's quiet boyfriend (Tom Willett).

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#9Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes • as Elayne (voice)

7.9 / 10
AnimationComedy

From living with his deadbeat son, Ben, to his day-to-day dealings with his stunningly sarcastic secretary, Laura, join therapist Jonathan Katz as he picks the brains of your favorite stand-up comedians.

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#10Gotham Comedy Live

Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Self - Hostess

5.5 / 10
Comedy

Gotham Comedy Club, a popular comedy venue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, is the setting of an hourlong series that is shot in front of an audience at the club. Each episode features routines by several comics -- a list that has included such names as David Alan Grier, Gilbert Gottfried and Artie Lange -- in what the network says is an unedited and uncensored format. In addition to the big names of the field who take the Gotham stage, the show also features up-and-comers who want to make a name for themselves in the stand-up comedy business.

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#11The History of Comedy

Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Self

6.6 / 10
DocumentaryComedy

Explore what makes us laugh, why, and how that's influenced our social and political landscape throughout history.

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#12Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Self

7.9 / 10
Documentary

A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.

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#13Meatballs: Part II

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Mother

4.0 / 10
Comedy

Camp Sasquatch will be bought out and closed unless owner Coach Giddy wins the boxing competition scheduled for the end of the summer. Tough city punk Flash, who's performing his community service time at the camp, is the coach's best hope. Flash reluctantly offers to help and so must use his raw sparring talents to get a motley group of adolescent misfits into fighting shape, while also trying to win the heart of pretty Cheryl.

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#14Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Mother Hubbard

5.0 / 10
AdventureFamilyFantasy

Set in the mythical world of Rhymeland, Gordon Goose returns home to discover that his mom has mysteriously vanished. Now the characters of Rhymeland are in danger of disappearing unless Mother Goose returns.

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#15Grease Day USA

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Self

8.3 / 10
DocumentaryMusicTV Movie

The star-studded premiere party for "Grease," featuring numerous unrelated musical performances.

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#16Comic Relief III

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Self

8.0 / 10
ComedyDocumentaryTV Movie

The third event from Comic Relief USA. Hosted, as with the first two specials, by Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams. The event debuted the song "Mr. President"—written by Joe Sterling, Ray Reach and Mike Loveless, and sung by Al Jarreau and Natalie Cole. Featured Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell; Catherine O'Hara smoking between bites of food and drink; Arsenio Hall on women with plastic surgery; Woody Harrelson talking to an "audience member" (Shelley Long) who, when asked if she watched Cheers, said, "Not that much."

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#17Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Documentary

Based on Ricky Jay's book of the same title, this TV special was made up of a combination of magic, juggling, amazing feats, stunts and performances, including a musical performance on wine glasses, a human calculator who could determine cube-routes of numbers in her head and an antique acrobatic clockwork doll.

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#18Elayne Boosler: Top Tomata

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Herself

8.8 / 10
Comedy

Elayne Boosler's third Showtime stand-up comedy special.

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#19Elayne Boosler: Broadway Baby

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Herself

9.0 / 10
Comedy

Elayne Boosler's second Showtime stand-up comedy special

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#20Elayne Boosler: Live Nude Girls

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Herself

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Elayne Boosler's fourth Showtime stand-up comedy special.

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#21Elayne Boosler: Party of One

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Herself

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Elayne Boosler's first Showtime stand-up comedy special.

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#22Andy Kaufman: The Andy Kaufman Show: Soundstage

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Self

8.8 / 10
Comedy

From the PBS series "Soundstage" comes this special broadcast of Andy Kaufman's satirical talk show, which includes "The Has-Been Corner," a spoof segment with a washed-up celebrity, and a routine featuring his marionette alter ego, Tony Clifton. In other highlights, Kaufman and ex-girlfriend Elayne Boosler publicly expose their turbulent relationship, and one of Kaufman's guests is unmasked as a charlatan.

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