Question: Chas Early is best known for portraying a comedian born in what year?

full_context: Document 1: Bill Cashmore: Bill Cashmore (born 1961) is an English actor, playwright, director and co-founder of Actors in Industry. Bill started his acting career in the Cambridge Footlights and went on to have roles in "The Bill", "Casualty", "All Creatures Great and Small", "Fist of Fun" (playing The Man, the Bootleg Bootleg George Harrison, and a particularly memorable turn as The Piemaster), The News Revue and The Day Today. Bill was a writer and performer for 'Gimme 5', the live ITV children's programme. He has written several plays with Andy Powrie, including 'Trip of A Lifetime', published by Samuel French, which has been performed around the world. He has also written and performed a one-man show called "An Everyday Actor" about his experiences in the acting profession. Bill's play 'Daughter' won best play at the 2016 Ink Festival and transferred to the Pleasance theatre London. Bill is also a travel writer having written for the Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator.
Document 2: Bill Burr: William Frederic Burr (born June 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, podcaster, and social critic who has released several stand-up comedy specials. Outside of stand-up comedy, he is known for hosting the "Monday Morning Podcast", playing Patrick Kuby in the AMC crime drama series "Breaking Bad", and
Document 3: Craig Cash: Craig Cash (born 11 September 1960) is an English comedian, actor, director and BAFTA award-winning writer and producer. His best known work is in the television shows "The Royle Family", "The Fast Show", "The Mrs Merton Show", "Early Doors", "Sunshine" and most recently "The Cafe", "Rovers" and "After Hours".
Document 4: Chic Murray: Charles Thomas McKinnon "Chic" Murray (6 November 1919 – 29 January 1985), was a Scottish comedian and actor. He appeared in various roles on British television and film – most notably in the 1967 version of "Casino Royale" – and portrayed Liverpool Football Club manager Bill Shankly in a musical. In 2005, he was named in "The Comedian's Comedian".
Document 5: Richard Pryor: Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and social critic. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities and profanity, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor "The Picasso of our profession" and Bob Newhart heralded Pryor as "the seminal comedian of the last 50 years". Dave Chappelle said of Pryor, "You know those, like, evolution charts of man? He was the dude walking upright. Richard was the highest evolution of comedy." This legacy can be attributed, in part, to the unusual degree of intimacy Pryor brought to bear on his comedy. As Bill Cosby reportedly once said, "Richard Pryor drew the line between comedy and tragedy as thin as one could possibly paint it."
Document 6: Chas Early: Chas Early is a British actor and playwright. He has appeared on TV shows such as Casualty and EastEnders, "Skins" and Mayo. He is probably best known for portraying the late comedian Bill Hicks in his one-man show, "Bill Hicks: Slight Return".
Document 7: Black comedy: Black comedy or dark comedy is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humor with authors as early as the ancient Greeks with Aristophanes. Black comedy corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor.
Document 8: Hank Osasuna: Hank Osasuna is an actor and performance artist. He was grew up in Chadwell Heath in London. After working in The House of Lords for 14 years, Hank took up acting full-time and has appeared in many prime time advertisements for brands such as Cadburys, Heineken, 118. Hank is the pioneer of punk rock poetry - a mix of a cappella singing, poetry and comedy. He has been heavily involved in promoting and performing in both the American and British antifolk circuits. His performance persona is Spinmaster Plantpot and when performing a set in 2008 was discovered by Leigh Francis - and offered a part in "Keith Lemon's Brilliant World Tour" as Mad Paul. After this, Hank subsequently appeared as Mad Paul in "" and ITV2 series "Lemon La Vida Loca". He is known for his height - 4 feet eleven inches.
Document 9: Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays, on politics, literature and religion. A staple of public discourse, his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded intellectual and a controversial public figure. He contributed to "New Statesman", "The Nation", "The Weekly Standard", "The Atlantic", "London Review of Books", "The Times Literary Supplement", "Slate", "Free Inquiry" and "Vanity Fair".
Document 10: Eric Sykes: Eric Sykes, CBE (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus, and Johnny Speight. Sykes first came to prominence through his many radio credits as a writer and actor in the 1950s, most notably through his collaboration on "The Goon Show" scripts. He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when he appeared with Hattie Jacques in several popular BBC comedy television series.
Document 11: Lewis Black: Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic, and actor. He is known for his angry demeanour and belligerent comedic style, in which he often simulates having a mental breakdown. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion, or any other cultural trends. He hosted the Comedy Central series "Lewis Black's Root of All Evil" and made regular appearances on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" delivering his "Back in Black" commentary segment. When not on the road performing, he resides in Manhattan. He also maintains a residence in Chapel Hill, N.C. He is also a spokesman for the Aruba Tourism Authority, appearing in television ads that first aired in late 2009 and 2010, as well as the voice of Anger in 2015's Pixar film, "Inside Out". He was voted 51st of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time by Comedy Central in 2004; he was voted 5th in Comedy Central's Stand Up Showdown in 2008 and 11th in 2010.
Document 12: Richard Pryor: Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and social critic. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities and profanity, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor "The Picasso of our profession" and Bob Newhart heralded Pryor as "the seminal comedian of the last 50 years". Dave Chappelle said of Pryor, "You know those, like, evolution charts of man? He was the dude walking upright. Richard was the highest evolution of comedy." This legacy can be attributed, in part, to the unusual degree of intimacy Pryor brought to bear on his comedy. As Bill Cosby reportedly once said, "Richard Pryor drew the line between comedy and tragedy as thin as one could possibly paint it."
Document 13: Bill Hicks: William Melvin Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material, encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy, was controversial, and often steeped in dark comedy.
Document 14: Seymour Hicks filmography: Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, theatre manager and producer. He became well known for writing, starring in and producing Edwardian musical comedy. Beginning in 1913, however, he had a significant film career. Hicks began in film during the silent era and continued to act in sound films.
Document 15: Seymour Hicks: Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring in and producing Edwardian musical comedy, often together with his famous wife, Ellaline Terriss. His most famous acting role was that of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol".
ground_truth: 1961