When most people think of a hater, they think of someone who loathes everyone but themselves. But as today’s HHOF inductee proves, there are also those haters who despise themselves as much, if not more than anyone else. George Louis Costanza (aka Art Vandelay), Circa 1953 George Louis Costanza was born in New York, and [...]
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, Born October 5, 1957 Died August 9, 2008 Bernard McCullough was born in a rough neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois’s South Side, where he lived with a large extended family and was raised by his mother. Mac was drawn to comedy early in life, and said that he was influenced by entertainers like [...]
Today the Hater Hall of Fame welcomes the funniest canine puppet to ever smoke a cigar and belittle unsuspecting individuals with his razor sharp wit: Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog (aka comedian Robert Smigel) Triumph’s first appearance was in 1993 on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien, where he was featured in a skit exploring the glamorous [...]
Joseph Frank Pesci, Born February 9, 1943 Joseph Pesci was born in Newark, New Jersey, where his mother Mary worked as a part time barber, and his father Angelo was a forklift driver with General Motors and bartender. Pesci began appearing in plays in New York City at the age of five, and at age [...]