| 100% | OHANLON | 7 | Ardal —, Irish stand-up comedian and actor who authored novel The Talk of the Town |
| 90% | OHANLON | 7 | Ardal —, stand-up comedian and actor who authored 1998 novel The Talk of the Town |
| 78% | OHANLON | 7 | Ardal —, stand-up comedian-actor who authored 1998 novel The Talk of the Town |
| 64% | SEANHUGHES | 10 | Stand-up comedian and actor, author of novels It's What He Would've Wanted and The Detainees, who died in 2017 |
| 45% | STEWARTLEE | 10 | Stand-up comedian; author of 2001 novel The Perfect Fool |
| 44% | LARRY | 5 | ___ David, comedian and actor who was the co-creator of "Seinfeld" |
| 43% | BOB | 3 | ___ Newhart, stand-up comedian and actor who played Arthur Jeffries in "The Big Bang Theory" |
| 42% | EMO | 3 | Stand up comedian Philips, notable for his falsetto voice and the use of paraprosdokians |
| 40% | GEORGEORWELL | 12 | Author of the novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Coming Up for Air |
| 40% | MULANEY | 7 | John ___, American stand-up comedian and actor who was a writer for "Saturday Night Live" |
| 40% | CROOK | 5 | Mackenzie —, actor and comedian who played Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series |
| 39% | GREEN | 5 | John ___, American author and YouTuber who wrote the best-selling novel "Paper Towns" |
| 39% | LIMB | 4 | Sue —, author of the novels Enlightenment and Up the Garden Path |
| 39% | SUELIMB | 7 | Author of novels Enlightenment and Up the Garden Path |
| 39% | CRIERS | 6 | Ones who are the talk of the town? |
| 39% | RENDELL | 7 | Ruth —, author of the novels The Veiled One and Talking to Strange Men |
| 38% | SOPHIEKINSELLA | 14 | Author of the "Shopaholic" novels who also wrote stand-alone novels as Madeleine Wickham: 2 wds. |
| 38% | NOBLE | 5 | Ross —, stand-up comedian and actor; Perrier Comedy Award nominee at the 1999 Edinburgh Festival Fringe |
| 38% | BALDWIN | 7 | James —, author of novels The Fire Next Time and If Beale Street Could Talk |
| 38% | HAWKE | 5 | Ethan —, US actor; author of novels Ash Wednesday and The Hottest State |
| 38% | PAULNEWMAN | 10 | Actor who stars in the film adaptations of the Walter Tevis novels "The Color of Money" and "The Hustler" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | LIMB | 4 | Sue —, author of novels Enlightenment and Up the Garden Path |
| 38% | ANGIETHOMAS | 11 | Author of the young adult novels 30-Across and the upcoming "On the Come Up": 2 wds. |
| 38% | DARBY | 5 | Rhys —, actor and comedian who played Murray Hewitt in US television series Flight of the Conchords |
| 37% | ELTON | 5 | Ben —, comedian; author of novels This Other Eden and Blast from the Past |
| 36% | FREDDIEPRINZE | 13 | Stand-up comedian who played young mechanic Chico on "Chico and the Man": 2 wds. |
| 36% | BATES | 5 | H E —, author of novels Love for Lydia and Fair Stood the Wind for France |
| 36% | DONNBYRNE | 9 | Brian Oswald —, New York-born Irish author of novels Messer Marco Polo and The Wind Bloweth |