Jack Morton Productions, as the company was then named, was among the first to book celebrity entertainers for corporate and association meetings.
If porn star Stormy Daniels decides to challenge David Vitter for his Senate seat in the Louisiana Republican primary, she won't be the first adult entertainer to turn her talents to politics.
He was the first Australian recording artist to receive a gold record (for his quintessential hit "A Pub with No Beer" in 1957), the first Australian entertainer to be granted an MBE (1970), and the first country music performer to appear at the Sydney Opera House (1978).
The reference was first to Stefan Raab, a television entertainer whose inclusion in the normally serious lineup of four moderators at the debate on Sunday night was much remarked and delivered the liveliest exchange of the evening.
Simultaneously one of the most significant and most embarrassing show business figures of the 20th century, Al Jolson was a ferociously charismatic entertainer, among the first to realize that creating an intimate, emotional bond with his public was more important to his success than his considerable technical abilities as a singer.
Mr. Bikindi, 54, is the first entertainer to be found guilty of a genocide-related charge.
Nine years later he became the first western pop entertainer to perform in the Soviet Union.
However ancient his material, he was the first entertainer to have an instinctive grip on the spanking-new dynamics of television.
Leno was the first music hall entertainer to give a royal command performance (earning himself the sobriquet of King's Jester); night after night he played to audiences of 2,000 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
He wasn't the first entertainer to enter politics successfully, but the level of his political success was a lot greater than any who came before him.
