Three months after the USO was founded, Bob Hope led a group of celebrities
to perform for airmen stationed at March Field (now March Air Force Base) in California—the beginning of a great tradition.

Michael Edward Palin is an English comedian, actor, writer and
television presenter known for being one of the members of
the acclaimed comedy group Monty Python. He was made a
BAFTA fellow, the highest honor bestowed by the organization.

Palin began acting at the age of five, when he performed in a
school play presentation of “A Christmas Carol”.
 

Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr.  (October 26, 1942 – April 29, 2014)

LONDON (AP) – British actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from noir
drama "Mona Lisa" to animated fantasy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" has died. A  
family statement released Wednesday by publicist Clair Dobbs said Hoskins died
in a hospital after a bout of pneumonia. He had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s
disease in 2012.

Carol Creighton Burnett 

  
Actress, comedian, singer, and writer.Carol Burnett is best known for her long- 
running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show,on CBS. It originally aired 
from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes, and again 
with 9 episodes in the fall of 1991.

      
     
    John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987)