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Adi Ashkenazi
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Adir Miller
Adir Miller (, born 16 July 1974) is an Israeli actor and comedian.
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Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Charles "Ade" Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English actor, comedian, director, writer and musician. He is probably best known for his comedic roles as Vyvyan Basterd in The Young Ones (1982–1984), and Eddie Hitler in Bottom (1991–1995), which he also wrote together with co-star Rik Mayall, his long-time comedy partner.
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African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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Ahsaan Qureshi
Ahsaan Qureshi is an Indian stand-up comedian. He is the 2005 runner-up of the The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star One. Qureshi has been a stage performer for the last 20 years. Most of his jokes focus on political satire and social issues. Usually he targeted the BJP and similar organizations. He had put in his name for the reality show at the behest of his friends.
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Akmal Saleh
Akmal Saleh () (born 1964) is an Australian comedian and actor. He was born in Egypt and arrived in Sydney, Australia with his family in 1975 at the age of 11. He has been performing stand-up comedy since the early 1990s and his live shows have toured comedy festivals both within Australia and internationally. He has also made guest appearances on numerous Australian television shows.
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Alex Agnew
Alex Agnew is a Belgian stand up comedian. In February 2003 was Alex the first Belgian to win the prestigious Leids Cabaret Festival.
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Alexei Sayle
Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English stand-up comedian, actor and author. His first name is usually pronounced "Alexy" despite the proper Russian pronunciation being "Alexyay". He was a central part of the alternative comedy circuit in the early 1980s. He was voted 18th on a list of the 100 Greatest Stand Ups in a poll for Channel 4.
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Andrew Maxwell
Andrew Maxwell (born 1974) is an Irish stand-up comedian. He was raised in Kilbarrack on the Northside of Dublin. Maxwell is a Protestant with both of his parents being lay preachers.
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Ardal O'Hanlon
'''Ardal O'Hanlon' (born 8 October 1965) is an Irish comedian and actor, best known for his roles in television sitcoms as Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted and George Sunday in My Hero''.
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Bill Hicks
William Melvin "Bill" Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian, satirist and musician. His humor challenged mainstream beliefs, aiming to "enlighten people to think for themselves."
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Billy Connolly
William "Billy" Connolly, Jr., CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder (specifically a boilermaker) in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue being a folk singer in the Humblebums and subsequently as a soloist. In the early 1970s he made the transition from folk-singer with a comedic persona to fully-fledged comedian, a role in which he continues. He also became an actor, and has appeared in such films as Indecent Proposal (1993); Mrs. Brown (1997), for which he was nominated for a BAFTA; The Boondock Saints (1999); The Man Who Sued God (2001); The Last Samurai (2003); Timeline (2003); ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'' (2004); ' (2006); and ' (2008). Connolly reprised his role as Noah "Il Duce" MacManus in .
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Bob Newhart
George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929), known professionally as, Bob Newhart, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery, Newhart is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s sitcom Newhart.
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Bobcat Goldthwaite
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Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackett (August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American comedian and actor. In his later life, he and his wife set up the Singita Animal Sanctuary in the San Fernando Valley, California.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy, or The Danny Thomas Show. He is also the founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He is the father of Marlo Thomas, Terre Thomas and Tony Thomas.
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Dara Ó Briain
Dara Ó Briain (, born 4 February 1972) is an Irish comedian and television presenter, currently most famous for hosting topical panel show Mock the Week.
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David Cross
David Cross (born April 4, 1964) is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian perhaps best known for his work on HBO's sketch comedy series Mr. Show and for his role as Tobias Fünke in the Fox sitcom Arrested Development.
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Dawn French
Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a Welsh-born English actress, writer and comedian. She is best-known for starring in and writing for the comedy sketch show French and Saunders with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and also for playing the lead role of Geraldine Granger in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. So far in her career, she has been nominated for six BAFTA Awards and also won a Fellowship BAFTA along with Jennifer Saunders.
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Dayo Wong
Dayo Wong Chi-wah (), born 5 September 1960, is a Hong Kong actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter.
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Demetri Martin
Demetri Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humorist. Martin is best known for his work as a standup comedian, contributor on The Daily Show and for his Comedy Central show Important Things with Demetri Martin.
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Dick Gregory
Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory (born on October 12, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur.
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Don Rickles
Donald Jay "Don" Rickles (born May 8, 1926) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. A frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Rickles has acted in comedic and dramatic roles, but is best known as an insult comic. However, unlike many insult comics who only find short-lived success, Rickles has enjoyed a sustained career, thanks to a distinct sense of humor, a very sharp wit and impeccable timing.
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Dudu Topaz
Dudu Topaz (; September 20, 1946 – August 20, 2009) was an Israeli TV personality, comedian, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author and radio and television host. He committed suicide in August 2009 after being charged with assaulting media figures.
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Ed Byrne
Ed Byrne (born 16 April 1972) is a Perrier Award-nominated, Irish stand up comedian, voice over artist and actor. He has presented television shows Uncut! Best Unseen Ads and Just For Laughs, and is a regular guest on various television panel games. He has also starred in the ITV2 panto: Aladdin, in which he had the main part, as Aladdin.
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Enrique Pinti
Enrique Pinti (born October 7, 1939 in Buenos Aires) is a famous Argentine political humorist and actor.
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Eric Sykes
Eric Sykes, CBE (born 4 May 1923) is an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career has spanned more than 50 years. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in British radio and TV comedy in the latter 20th century and he frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, 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 work on The Goon Show. He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when he co-starred with Hattie Jacques in several popular BBC comedy television series. A trademark of Sykes's work is the idea of taking a single comic idea to its extremes, as epitomised by what is probably his best remembered work, the famous slapstick film "The Plank".
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Frank Carson
Frank Carson (born 6 November 1926) is a Northern Irish comedian and actor, best known on television in series such as The Comedians and Tiswas.
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Fred Allen
Fred Allen (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956) was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the so-called classic era of American radio.
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Garik Martirosyan
Garik Martirosyan (, ) (born February 14, 1974 in Yerevan, Armenia) is a neurologist, entertainer, TV host, actor, comedian and singer. He's the co-producer and host of the Comedy Club Russia which airs on Russian TV channel ТНТ.
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George Burns
George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
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Greg Fleet
Gregory "Greg" Fleet is an Australian comedian and actor.
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Hanoch Levin
Hanoch Levin (December 18, 1943 - August 18, 1999; Hebrew חנוך לוין), was a prominent Israeli dramatist. He was also a theater director, an author and a poet, but he is best known for his plays.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong () is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. Situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups. Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province.
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Jack Benny
Jack Benny (February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film. Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny played the role of the comic penny-pinching miser, insisting on remaining 39 years old on stage despite his actual age, and often playing the violin badly.
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Jake O'Kane
Jake O’Kane is a Belfast-based stand-up comedian, and a resident compère of Northern Ireland’s longest running comedy club The Empire Laughs Back at The Empire Music Hall in Belfast.
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Jasper Carrott
Jasper Carrott OBE (born Robert Norman Davis on 14 March 1945) is a British comedian, actor and television presenter.
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Javed Jaffrey
Javed Jaffery (, born 4 December 1963, Mumbai, India) is an Indian actor and comedian known for his work in several Bollywood films and Indian television shows.He brought up break dance in India.He is the son of comedian, Syed Jawaher Ali Jaffrey (stage name: Jagdeep) and the elder brother of Naved Jaffrey- creater & director of the 'Boogie Woogie' TV series on Sony Television.
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Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is a two-time BAFTA, International Emmy Award , British Comedy Award, Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two-time Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award, and Peoples Choice Award winning English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress.
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Jerry Seinfeld
Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer, best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David, and, in the show's final two seasons, co-executive-produced.
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Jim Carrey
James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. Carrey began stand-up comedy in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario. After gaining prominence in 1981, he began working at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles where he was soon noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who immediately signed him to open his tour performances. Carrey, long interested in film and television, developed a close friendship with comedian Damon Wayans, which landed him a role in the sketch comedy hit In Living Color, in which he portrayed various characters during the show's 1990 season. Having had little success in television movies and several low-budget films, Carrey was cast as the title character in ' which premiered in February, 1994 making $159,537,178 domestically and over $400 million worldwide. The film spawned a sequel, ' (1995), in which he reprised the role of Ventura. These higher-profile roles eventually led to his being cast as Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask (1994) for which he gained a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and as Lloyd Christmas in the comedy film Dumb and Dumber (1994).
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johnny Lever
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Kamagurka
Kamagurka, aka Luc Zeebroek, (Nieuwpoort, Belgium, 5 May 1956) is a Belgian cartoonist, playwright and television producer, known for the absurd nature of his work. He has a big variety of comic figures, but "Bert en Bobje" are the most well-known. He also writes the scenarios for Herr Seele's comic, Cowboy Henk.
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Kashif Khan
Kashif Khan (born August 17, 1977 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani stage and television actor. He was the winner of reality show Comedy Circus paired with Ali Asghar.
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Ken Dodd
Dr Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE (born 8 November 1927) is a British comedian and singer songwriter, famous for his buck teeth, frizzy hair, feather duster (or "tickling stick"), and his catchphrases, often playing on the 'tickled' motif, ex: "How tickled I am!". He works mainly in the music hall tradition, although, in the past, has occasionally appeared in drama, including as Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on stage in Liverpool in 1971; on television in the cameo role of 'The Tollmaster' in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen; and as Yorick (in silent flashback) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1996. In total he has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. In the 1960s his fame was such that he rivaled The Beatles as a household name.
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Kumar (drag queen)
Kumar is Singapore's best known cross-dressing performer. Kumar used to perform at the now defunct Boom Boom Room and Gold Dust. He now performs on Friday and Saturday nights at 3 Monkeys Cafe and on Monday nights at Hard Rock Cafe. He will be headlining "Kumar:Stripped Bare and Standing Up" at the Esplanade Theatre from the 4-7 March 2010.
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Lee Evans (comedian)
:Not to be confused with the American football player, Lee Evans (American football)
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Lenny Bruce
Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by the stage name Lenny Bruce, was an extremely influential and controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s, whose comedy revolved heavily around the social stigmas and taboos of the era in which he lived. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in New York state history.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
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Mike Harding
Mike Harding (born 23 October 1944, Crumpsall, Manchester, Lancashire) is an English singer, songwriter, comedian, author, poet and broadcaster. He is known as 'The Rochdale Cowboy' after one of his hit records. In addition, at various times of his life, Harding has been a stand-up comic, photographer, traveller, filmmaker, playwright, and musician.
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Milton Berle
Milton Berle (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), in 1948 he was the first major star of US television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr. Television to millions during TV's golden age.
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Naor Zion
Naor Zion (born February 10, 1973) is an Israeli stand-up comedian and comedian. Zion was the creator, head writer and an actor for the Israeli sitcom television series "The Friends of Naor".
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Neil Delamere
Neil Delamere (born circa 1980) is an Irish comedian from Edenderry, County Offaly in Ireland. He has a degree in Computer Applications.
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Nina Conti
Nina Conti (born 1974, in Hampstead, London) is a British actress, comedian and ventriloquist. Her on-stage puppet sidekick is a depressed monkey named Monk.
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Opie and Anthony
Opie (Gregg Hughes, born May 23, 1963) and Anthony (Anthony Cumia, born April 26, 1961) are the hosts of The Opie & Anthony Show, a talk radio program airing in the United States and Canada on XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. It is co-hosted by stand up comedian Jim Norton. The show is currently based in New York City; it was previously on WXRK-FM and WNEW-FM in New York, and before that, on WAAF-FM in Worcester, MA.
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Papa CJ
Papa CJ is a stand-up comedian from India. He did his schooling at the Lawrence School Sanawar in India and then went on to do an MBA at the University of Oxford. After visiting the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2004, he threw up his corporate career and started performing stand-up comedy in November 2004. He has since performed in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. After being a regular on the UK comedy circuit he moved back to India in early 2008. In 2008 he also took part in Last Comic Standing 6 on NBC. From the thousands of comedians who took part, he made it through the international auditions in Miami to the semi-final in Las Vegas and then got into the Final top 10.
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Paul Ogata
Paul Ogata is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
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Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, OBE (born Richard Henry Sellers, 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980), was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty in the original 1962 screen version of Lolita, and as the man-child, Chance the gardener, in his penultimate film, Being There.
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Polo Polo
Polo Polo (Mexico City, March 9, of 1944) is a mexican comedian. His real name is Leopoldo García Benítez Peláez, known internationally for his practical jokes for adults, and its use as part of the gamble of his jokes, adorned with a light humorous misogyny in his repertoire.
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Raju Srivastava
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Redd Foxx
John Elroy Sanford (December 9, 1922 – October 11, 1991), better known by his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American comedian and actor, best known for his starring role on the sitcom Sanford and Son.
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Rich Hall
Rich Hall (born 10 June, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, playwright and occasional musician, notably known as a regular guest on British panel shows. He currently lives in London with his wife Karen and their daughter, Dixie Rae.
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Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful, vulgar and profane language, 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 stand-up comedians: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor "The Picasso of our profession"; Bob Newhart has called Pryor "the seminal comedian of the last 50 years."
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Rik Mayall
Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (born 7 March 1958) is an English actor, writer and comedian. He is best known for his comedy partnership with Adrian Edmondson, his over the top, energetic portrayal of characters, and for being one of the pioneering members of the alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s.
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Robin Williams
Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian.
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Russell Howard
Russell Joseph Howard (born 23 March 1980 in Bath, Somerset) is an English comedian, who has won several awards for his comedic talents, notably making Zoo magazine's top 10 list of "Britain's Funniest Comics 2005" at number 2 and winning "Best Compère" at the 2006 Chortle Awards. He was also nominated for an if.comedy award for his 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Wandering.
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Sam Kinison
Samuel Burl "Sam" Kinison (December 8, 1953 – April 10, 1992) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Kinison was known for his intense, harsh humor. A former revival-style preacher, he performed stand-up routines that were most often characterized by an intense style, similar to revival preachers, punctuated by his trademark scream.
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Sami Shah
Sami Shah is a Pakistani stand-up comedian, writer and improvisational actor. Sami performed the first ever solo English-language comedy show in Pakistan. He has had several tours across Pakistan, performing in theatre venues and colleges. Sami has also been a member of the improvisational comedy troupe "Black Fish".
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Shaike Ophir
Shaike Ophir (November 4, 1929 – August 17, 1987; ) was an Israeli film actor and comedian, and the country's first mime.
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Shakeel Siddiqui
Shakeel Siddiqui is a Pakistani stage comedian better known as 'Teeli' in Pakistan. He rose to prominence in India after appearing as a contestant in first season of Comedy Circus. Although he didn't win, he became so popular that he was hired as a co-host in the second season of the show. He was paired to actress Urvashi Dholakia in reality show, Ustaadon Ka Ustaad (2008).
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Shelley Berman
Sheldon "Shelley" Berman (born February 3, 1925) is an American comedian, actor, writer, teacher, lecturer, and poet.
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Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor; the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. Milligan was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles.
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Stan Boardman
Stan Boardman (born 7 December 1940 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is an English comedian.
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Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer.
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Steven Wright
Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American comedian, actor and writer. He is known for his distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes and one-liners with contrived situations.
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Sunil Pal
Sunil Pal was born in Chandarpur (Maharastra, India). He is a popular Indian comedian and actor, and the 2005 winner of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on STAR One. Lately he has been seen acting in many Bollywood flicks doing minor comic roles.
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Tato Bores
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Tommy Cooper
Thomas Frederick "Tommy" Cooper (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a popular British prop comedian and magician.
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Tommy Tiernan
Tommy Tiernan (born 16 June 1969) is an Irish comedian, actor and writer.
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Uri Zohar
Uri Zohar is a former Israeli film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi.
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Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood CBE (born 19 May 1953) is a British comedienne, actress, singer and screenwriter. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live stand-up comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author and playwright.
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Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid () (Born November 5, 1963) is an Israeli journalist, author, TV presenter, and News Anchor.
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Yehonatan Geffen
Yehonatan Geffen, (Heb: יהונתן גפן) also known as Yonatan Gefen, is an Israeli author, poet, songwriter, journalist, and playwright.
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Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic (, ), is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.
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Aspen, CO
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Boston
Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. Boston city proper had a 2009 estimated population of 645,169, making it the twentieth largest in the country. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region includes six Massachusetts counties, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester, all of Rhode Island and parts of New Hampshire; it is home to 7.5 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Comedy Store, London
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (, or ; Scots: Edinburgh ; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland after Glasgow and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a 30-square-mile (78 km2) rural area.
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Emerson College
Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts context." Offering over three dozen degree programs in the area of Arts and Communication, the college is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. Located in the Boston Theatre District on the edge of the Common, the school also maintains buildings in Los Angeles and the town of Well, Netherlands.
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Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: , ) is the (political) community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied.
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Hong Kong
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Ludacris - Stand Up ft. Shawnna
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- Duration: 3:36
- Published: 06 Oct 2009
- Uploaded: 10 Nov 2011
- Author: LudacrisVEVO
Music video by Ludacris performing Stand Up. (C) 2003 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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Jim Carrey-Stand up show!
A early stand up show from the funniest guy ever, Jim Carrey. Louie Anderson is the guy in the beginning, many people has asked that question, and Jim Carrey says that it is Louie Anderson many times. It would have been alot of fun if you guys would try out the angry st bernard tricks and post it as a video comment. Especially if you did it in public places as resturants, cafè, clubs and stuff like that. I would love seeing that. Thanks!
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Steven Wright Hysteria stand up
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- Duration: 7:01
- Published: 06 Mar 2009
- Uploaded: 10 Nov 2011
- Author: laughingstocklabel
Steven Wright stand up taken from the 'Hysteria' DVD. www.laughingstock.co.uk
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JESSIE J 'STAND UP'
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- Duration: 6:20
- Published: 09 Jul 2009
- Uploaded: 10 Nov 2011
- Author: JessicaCornish
ME IN MY BEDROOM SINGING STAND UP SITTING DOWN. I THINK IM FUNNY INIT..... :-/ Jessie J's debut single is available to download right now on iTunes in the UK. Click here to download zaphod.uk.vvhp.net
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Jon Stewart Standup
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- Duration: 7:09
- Published: 27 Nov 2007
- Uploaded: 10 Nov 2011
- Author: VidResearchLeague
Jon Stewart in Miami - 1996. Talking about War with Iraq and Canada. www.mahalo.com
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Dylan Moran Stand Up
Dylan Moran's 3 & 1/2 minutes from 'The Cream of Irish Comedy'
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Zach Galifianakis stand up part 1
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- Duration: 7:24
- Published: 26 Oct 2007
- Uploaded: 10 Nov 2011
- Author: daredsox04
This is part one of a performance given by Zach Galifianakis at a comedy club in Canada.
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"Stand Up" by the Flobots
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- Duration: 3:56
- Published: 22 Apr 2008
- Uploaded: 09 Nov 2011
- Author: Flobotfollower777
Hey everyone... send this video to all your friends, put it on facebook and myspace and everything. I want to see if we can get over one million people to view this. This way we all have a better chance at changing the world. But it all starts with you. Pass this video around, make a difference A slideshow depicting the cruelties of the world today. Stand up and fight for the cruelties you see in the war.
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Martin Lawrence - Racism (stand up comedy)
Martin Lawrence - Racism
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Hindi Zahra - Stand Up
As featured on the Western Union- YES! commercial. The song on that is a remix of this one :) I think this is the first recorded video of this song. This was the only version I could find; by chance on the internet Enjoy :) Lyrics: Standing on your two knees baby, tell me what do...
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Stand Up! - Don't Stand for Homophobic Bullying
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- Duration: 4:24
- Published: 01 Apr 2011
- Uploaded: 10 Nov 2011
- Author: BeLonGToYouthService
Irish anti homophobic bullying advertisement, created as part of BeLonG To Youth Services annual Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Weeks. The campaign promotes friendship amongst young people as a way to combat homophobic bullying. For more information on the campaign please see: www.belongto.org Written & Directed by Anna Rodgers & Aoife Kelleher Produced by Zlata Filipovic Crossing the Line Films for BeLonG To Youth Services
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Sarah Silverman - Early Standup
A young Sarah Silverman doing some standup in 1992.
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Flobots - Stand Up
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- Duration: 4:02
- Published: 05 Jun 2008
- Uploaded: 09 Nov 2011
- Author: silverknight009
Stand up We shall not be moved Except by a child with no socks and shoes If you've got more to give then you've got to provePut your hands up and I'll copy you Stand up We shall not be moved Except by a woman dying from a loss of food If you've got more to give then you've got to prove Put your hands up and I'll copy you We still don't understand thunder and lightning Flash back to when we didn't fund the dam Didn't fund the damn levee? No wonder man Now our whole damn city's torn asunder man Under water but we still don't understand We see hurricane spills overrun the land Through gaps you couldn't fill with a hundred tons of sand No we still don't understand We've seen planes in the windows of buildings crumbled-in We've seen flames send the chills through London And we've sent planes to kill them and some of them were children But still we crumble-in the building Underfunded but we still don't understand Under god but we kill like the son of Sam But if you feel like I feel like about the son of man We will overcome So stand up We shall not be moved Except by a child with no socks and shoes If you've got more to give then you've got to prove Put your hands up and I'll copy you Stand up We shall not be moved Except by a woman dying from a loss of food If you've got more to give then you've got to prove Put your hands up and I'll copy you I said put your hands up and I'll copy you Put your hands up and I'll copy you If you've got more to give then you've got to prove Put <b>...</b>
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jessie j - Stand up with lyrics
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- Duration: 3:30
- Published: 13 Mar 2011
- Uploaded: 09 Nov 2011
- Author: xlilcourttney
All rights to jessie j STOP complaining about the lyrics i have one word wrong.....you know what it is why is that a problem!
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Seth Rogen 1996 Stand Up Comedy
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- Duration: 10:31
- Published: 15 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 10 Nov 2011
- Author: NickCarefoot
carefoot.ca Seth Rogen performs at the Comedy Gym in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Seth is 13 in this video. This is being uploaded on April 15th - Seth's birthday. The MC in the video is Damonde Tschritter.
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Best of Kevin Hart- I'm a Grown Little Man
my favorite parts from kevin hart's stand-up im a grown little man.
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Bob Marley Get Up Stand Up
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- Duration: 3:18
- Published: 10 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 10 Nov 2011
- Author: Rastavibe13
Bob MArley The Legend Album Rastavibe13 Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right (3 times) Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth I know you don't know what life is really worth Is not all that glitters in gold and Half the story has never been told So now you see the light, aay Stand up for your right. Come on Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight (Repeat) Most people think great God will come from the sky Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high But if you know what life is worth You would look for yours on earth And now you see the light You stand up for your right, yeah! Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight Get Up, Stand Up. Life is your right So we can't give up the fight Stand up for your right, Lord, Lord Get Up, Stand Up. Keep on struggling on Don't give up the fight We're sick and tired of your ism and skism game Die and go to heaven in Jesus' name, Lord We know when we understand Almighty God is a living man You can fool some people sometimes But you can't fool all the people all the time So now we see the light We gonna stand up for our right So you'd better get up, stand up, stand up for your right Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight. ...
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TURISAS - Stand Up And Fight (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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- Duration: 5:28
- Published: 27 Apr 2011
- Uploaded: 10 Nov 2011
- Author: CenturyMedia
TURISAS - Stand Up And Fight (OFFICIAL VIDEO). Taken from the album "Stand Up And Fight". Century Media 2011. For more info visit: www.turisas.com and www.facebook.com
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JUST STAND UP! Mariah, Beyonce, Rihanna, Miley, Leona & more
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 31 Aug 2008
- Uploaded: 10 Nov 2011
- Author: moltovivace
Charity single by all-star female artists. Written by: Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds & Ronnie Walton Produced by: Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Antonio "LA" Reid Sung by: Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Beyonce Knowles, Ashanti, Keyshia Cole, Ciara, Miley Cyrus, Fergie, Rihanna, Leona Lewis, Natasha Bedingfield, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, LeAnn Rimes and Carrie Underwood Lyrics: Beyonce: The heart is stronger than you think It's like it can go through anything And even when you think it can't it finds a way to still push on, though Carrie: Sometimes you want to run away Ain't got the patience for the pain And if you don't believe it look into your heart the beat goes on Rihanna: I'm tellin' you that Things get better Through whatever If you fall, dust it off, don't let up Sheryl: Don't you know you can go be your own miracle Beyonce: You need to know CHORUS Sheryl: If the mind keeps thinking you've had enough But the heart keeps telling you don't give up Sheryl/Beyonce: Who are we to be questioning, wondering what is what Don't give up THROUGH IT ALL, JUST STAND UP! Fergie: It's like we all have better days Problems getting all up in your face Leona: Just because you go through it Fergie: Don't mean it got to take control, no Leona: You ain't gotta find no hiding place Keyshia: Because the heart can beat the hate Leona: Don't wanna let your mind keep playin' you Keyshia: And sayin' you can't go on Rihanna: I'm tellin' you that Miley: Things get better Through whatever <b>...</b>
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![Omid Djalili (pronounced /əˈmiːd dʒəˈlɪli/; Persian: امید جلیلی; born 30 September 1965)[1] is a British stand-up comedian and actor.](http://web.archive.org./web/20111201131725/http://cdn5.wn.com/pd/ba/e9/b1abd63a9212a83d0a23a5e1cc71_medium.jpg "Omid Djalili (pronounced /əˈmiːd dʒəˈlɪli/; Persian: امید جلیلی; born 30 September 1965)[1] is a British stand-up comedian and actor.")
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Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television.
The performer is commonly known as a comic, stand-up comic, stand-up comedian or simply a stand-up.
Also, where the comedian recites a fast-paced succession of humorous stories, short jokes (called "bits"), and one-liners, which constitute what is typically called a monologue, routine or act. Some stand-up comedians use props, music or magic tricks to enhance their acts. Stand-up comedy is often performed in comedy clubs, bars, neo-burlesques, colleges and theaters, but there are no real restrictions on where the craft can be performed. Clean stand-up comedy is often performed by professional comedians outside of traditional entertainment venues, such as in country clubs, at corporate events and conferences, as charity fundraising events, even in temples and churches.
Many smaller venues hold "open mic" events, where anyone can take the stage and perform for the audience, offering a way for amateur performers to hone their craft and possibly break into professionalism.
Stand-up is an art form that is openly devoted to getting immediate laughs from an audience above all else, unlike theatrical comedy which creates comedy within the structure of a play with amusing characters and situations. In stand-up comedy, feedback of the audience is instant and crucial for the comedian's act. Audiences expect a stand up comic to provide a steady stream of laughs, and a performer is always under great pressure to deliver. This pressure can be thrilling, but also threatening. Actor-comedian Will Ferrell has called stand-up comedy "hard, lonely, and vicious."
If the performer cannot coax laughs out of the audience, the bored crowd may harrass the comedian, a practice known as heckling. One hallmark of a master stand-up comedian is the ability not only to face down and silence a heckler, but to win over and entertain the rest of the crowd with a witty retort. An adept stand-up comedian will nimbly play off the mood and tastes of any particular audience, and adjust his or her routine accordingly, though almost all comedians consider heckling to be an inappropriate interference with the comedian's performance.
The skills attributed to stand-up are diverse, as the stand-up comic often acts as writer, editor, performer, promoter, producer and technician for the act. Many stand-up comedians work for years to develop 45 minutes of material, and usually perform their bits repeatedly, slowly perfecting them over time.
Despite the name, stand-up comedians do not always stand up. Some will sit on a stool; Martin Mull has sometimes used an easy chair. The term "sit-down comic" is usually pejorative in nature.
While a stand-up comedy show may involve only one comedian (often billed as a one-man or one-woman show, or a solo performer at a corporate event) usually a stand-up show consists of several comedians. Though a large venue in NY or LA may use the showcase format (several comedians performing for only 15-20 minutes each), most club shows are 3-comic, the emcee, the feature or middle act, and the closer or headliner. While the emcee (or MC, Master of Ceremonies) is often the newest comic his or her importance shouldn't be undervalued as it's his/her job to warm up the audience and get them in a laughing mood.
United Kingdom history
The United Kingdom has a long heritage of stand-up comedy, which began in the music halls of the 18th and 19th centuries. Notable performers who rose through the twentieth century music hall circuit were Morecambe and Wise, Arthur Askey, Ken Dodd and Max Miller, who was considered to be the quintessential music-hall comedian. The heavy censorship regime of the Lord Chamberlain's Office required all comedians to submit their acts for censorship. The act would be returned with unacceptable sections underlined in blue pencil (possibly giving rise to the term "blue" for a comedian whose act is considered bawdy or smutty). The comedian was then obliged not to deviate from the act in its edited form.At the end of World War II, many members of the Armed Forces had developed a taste for comedy (stand-up or otherwise) in wartime concert parties and moved into professional entertainment. Eric Sykes, Peter Sellers and the other Goons, and Tommy Cooper all began their careers this way. The rise of the postwar comedians coincided with the rise of television and radio, and the traditional music hall circuit suffered greatly as a result. Whereas a music hall performer could work for years using just one act, television exposure created a constant demand for new material, although this may have also been responsible for the cessation of theatrical censorship in 1968.
By the 1970s, music hall entertainment was virtually dead. Alternative circuits had evolved, such as Working Men's Clubs. Some of the more successful comedians on the Working Men's Club circuit - including Bernard Manning, Bobby Thompson, Frank Carson and Stan Boardman - eventually made their way to television via such shows as The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. The "alternative" comedy scene also began to evolve. Some of the earliest successes came from folk clubs, where performers such as Billy Connolly, Mike Harding and Jasper Carrott started as relatively straight musical acts whose between-song banter developed into complete comedy routines. The 1960s had also seen the satire boom, including the creation of the club, The Establishment, which, amongst other things, gave British audiences their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from Lenny Bruce. Victoria Wood launched her stand-up career in the early 1980s, which saw observational conversation mixed with comedy songs. Wood was to become one of the country's most successful comedians, in 2001 selling out the Royal Albert Hall for 15 nights in a row.
In 1979, the first American-style stand-up comedy club, the Comedy Store, London was opened in London by Peter Rosengard, where many alternative comedy stars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, Lee Evans, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson began their careers. The stand-up comedy circuit rapidly expanded from London across the UK. The present British stand-up comedy circuit arose from the 'alternative' comedy revolution of the 1980s, with political and observational humour being the prominent styles to flourish. In 1983 young drama teacher Maria Kempinska created Jongleurs Comedy Clubs, now the largest Stand Up Comedy chain in Europe.
United States history
North American stand-up comedy has its roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century including vaudeville, English Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues (by personalities such as Mark Twain and Norman Wilkerson), and circus clown antics. Comedians of this era often donned an ethnic persona (African, Scottish, German, Jewish, etc.) and built a routine based on popular stereotypes. Jokes were generally broad and material was widely shared.The fathers of modern American stand-up comedy, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George Burns, Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all came from vaudeville. They spoke directly to the audience as themselves, in front of the curtain, known as performing "in one". Frank Fay gained acclaim as a "master of ceremonies" at New York's Palace Theater and is credited with creating the style of 20th century stand-up.
Nightclubs and resorts became the new breeding ground for stand-ups. Acts like Alan King, Danny Thomas, Don Rickles and Jack E. Leonard flourished in these new arenas.
In the 1950s and into the 1960s, stand-ups like Mort Sahl began developing their acts in small folk clubs (like San Francisco's hungry i or New York's Bitter End). These comedians added an element of social satire and expanded both the language and boundaries of stand-up venturing into politics, race relations, and sexual humor. Lenny Bruce became known as a "sick" comic when he used language that sometimes led to his arrest. After Lenny Bruce, arrests for obscene language on stage nearly disappeared until George Carlin was arrested on 21 July 1972 at Milwaukee's Summerfest after performing the routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" (the case against Carlin was eventually dismissed).
Other notable comics from this era include Woody Allen, Shelley Berman and Bob Newhart. Some African-American comedians such as Redd Foxx, George Kirby, Bill Cosby and Dick Gregory began to cross over to white audiences during this time.
Stand-up in the 1970s saw several entertainers becoming major stars based on stand-up comedy performances. Richard Pryor and George Carlin followed Lenny Bruce's acerbic style to become icons. Stand-up expanded from clubs, resorts, and coffee houses into major concerts in sports arenas and amphitheaters. Steve Martin and Bill Cosby had levels of success with gentler comic routines. The older style of stand-up comedy (no social satire) was kept alive by Rodney Dangerfield and Buddy Hackett, who enjoyed revived careers late in life. Television programs such as Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show launched the careers of other stand-up comedians.
From the 1970s and 90s, more nonsensical styles of comedy began to emerge, led by the madcap stylings of Robin Williams, the odd observations of Jerry Seinfeld and the awkward ponderings of Steven Wright. These comedians would serve to influence the next generation of comedians, including Sam Kinison, David Cross, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Bill Hicks, Mitch Hedberg, Demetri Martin, and Jim Carrey.
In 2005, Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, established an archive of comedy to help preserve the history of 20th-century stand-up comedy.
Stand-up comedy around the world
Argentina
In Argentina, the greatest icon is arguably Enrique Pinti, followed by Carlos Perciavalle (who was actually born in Uruguay) There is possibly a bigger icon: Tato Bores. New young artists such as Sebastián Wainraich and Peto Menahem are also emerging.
Belgium
Belgium, and particularly Flanders, has a rich heritage of stand-up comedians. Several annual contest are held, with the Canvas Comedy Casino Cup as the most important challenge. Winners of this cup are Xander De Rycke and David Galle. Typical to Flemish stand up is that there is a large influence of British comedy, partly due to a number of emigrated British stand-up comedians who perform now in Dutch. Famous stand-uppers : Gunter Lamoot, Gili, Filip Geubels, Alex Agnew, Kamagurka, Freddy De Vadder, Nigel Williams, David Galle, Wim Helsen, Xander de Rycke, Henk Rijckaert, ...
Estonia
The nascent stand-up comedy scene in Estonia was established through the Tartu Comedy Festival in April 2010. Since that time, stand-up comedy performances have become regular in the Estonian cities of Tartu and the capital, Tallinn. Shows are now performed both in English and Estonian.
Greece
Greek Stand up comedy is hosted in The Comedy Club Greece 17 years ago by Greek stand up comedians who perform at the Club every night. This include Dimitris Doukoglou, Dionysis Atzarakis, Alexis Kyriakoulis, Kostandinos Passas, Evgenia Sassalou, Niki Xatzigeorgiou, Fania Magrizou, Sotiris Kordas, Yiannis Lazaris, Dimitri Christoforidis and mentalist Kary Novel.
Hong Kong
Stand-up comedy in China is an emerging art form. Hong Kong is the only city in China to offer a fulltime comedy club, The TakeOut Comedy Club Hong Kong, which features both local comics as well as leading international comedians such as Tom Cotter. The Punchline Comedy Club also hosts international comedians once per month. A famous stand-up comedy artist in Hong Kong is Dayo Wong Tze-Wah, who first started stand-up comedy in Hong Kong in early 1990s.
South Korea
Seoul's first English speaking comedy room is " STAND UP SEOUL. " ( est. March 2009 ) Stand Up Seoul has hosted several professional stand up shows with comics such as Brian Aylward, Tom Cotter and Ted Alexandro. Stand Up Seoul is held at Rocky Mountain Tavern ( RMT ) in the central Seoul neighborhood, Itaewon. Seoul has established itself as arguably the best local stand up scene in Asia. Expat entertainment is alive and well in the Land Of The Morning Calm. ( Notable acts: Rudy Tyburczy, Jeff Sinclair, Ross Gardiner, Fahad Al-Mutlaq, Erin Weber, Jessica Coyle, Albert Escobedo and the hip hop improv group, Space Rhyme Continuum. )There are also weekly stand up shows at venues Aussie Bar and Bistro ( aka. Tony's ) and Roofers Rooftop Bar. Both rooms are in Itaewon, Seoul.
South Korea's second city, Busan, has a monthly comedy room " The HA HA Hole." Hosted by Chris Tharp at Soul Trane ( PNU )
Ireland
Ireland has produced many successful and influential stand-up comedians, including Dave Allen, Spike Milligan, Dylan Moran, Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Sean Hughes, Ed Byrne, Jason Byrne, Andrew Maxwell, Colin Murphy, Neil Delamere and Jake O'Kane.
India
Stand-up comedians were very popular in ancient and medieval India. They were known as Vidushak and were known for their witty, intelligent and jestful acts (sometimes as clowns) in the courts of Indian kings. In modern era many artists have come up and become popular as stand-up comedians, often starting from stage/films and proceeding to TV shows. johnny Lever was one the early popular stand -up comedians who became very famous for his acts and routines.Javed Jaffrey, Raju Srivastava, Sunil Pal, Papa CJ, Ahsaan Qureshi, Naveen Prabhakar etc. TV shows like The Great Indian Laughter Challenge proved to be a highly popular platform for various Indian stand-up comedians.
Israel
In the 1960s and 1970s there were only a few Stand-Up shows in Israel. The moat prominent stand-Up performer at that time was Uri Zohar. The Israeli comedian and actor Shaike Ophir also appeared in several stand-Up shows. However, almost all of the entertainment shows during that period were written in advance, like those of the Pale Tracker trio or Hanoch Levin's cabarets. Another prominent stand-up performance in the 1970s was Yehonatan Geffen's stand-up performance which was satirical about the Israeli society and was mainly inspired by the American comedian Lenny Bruce.Since the mid 1980s and up until the present stand-up performances caught momentum and many Israeli stand-up performers gained success in Israel. The actor Shmuel Vilozni is widely considered to be a prominent contributor to the rise of Stand-Up in Israel during that period. Vilozni whom was originally fascinated by stand-up performances he watched in London decided to established a stand-up club in Tel Aviv. During that period another stand-up venue opened at "The American Zionists" hall. These shows gave relatively anonymous people the opportunity to attempt to entertain the audience for a few minutes and the audience determined whether they will go on or whether they would get off the stage.
During the 1990s many Comedy clubs were established across Israel. The most prominent of which was the "Camel Comedy Club", in which many Israeli talents, whom later became successful Israeli entertainers, were initially discovered. One of the most prominent stand-up performances at the "Camel Comedy Club" was the "Comedy Store" which began as a stage performance and soon thereafter became a successful comedy TV show on the Israeli Channel 2. Stand-Up performers also appeared in other TV programs such as "Zehu Ze!" (which had guest appearances by Shmuel Vilozni and Debby & Nolly), Dudu Topaz's entertainment show (In which Naor Zion was discovered) as well as Yair Lapid's talk show (which had guest appearances by Adi Ashkenazi, Adir Miller and other Israeli stand-up comedians).
Malaysia
Malaysia in 2009 revitalized the stand-up comedy scene with the introduction of 2 regular monthly shows. Timeout Comedy Thursday hosts monthly shows, which features young comedians and open mics. The Comedy Club KL, the counterpart of The Comedy Club Asia, offers monthly shows and features some of the best stand-up comedians from around the world with the likes of Greg Fleet, Akmal Saleh, Gina Yashere and Jeff Green. Local stand-up comedians including Harith Iskander, Douglas Lim, Andrew Netto, Papi Zak, Phoon Chi Ho, Kuah Jenhan and Kavin Jay are regular performers in The Comedy Club KL. In October 2010, The Comedy Club Asia brought stand-up comedy to a new level in Kuala Lumpur by producing a show called 'Kings and Queen of Comedy Asia' featuring 5 of the best comics in Asia in a sold-out 3000 seater Plenary Hall, KLCC.
Mexico
Mexican stand-up and much of the country's other comedy formats come down from the carpas (tents), which were traveling variety shows similar to vaudeville but with their own roots and traditions; added to this were the traditions of the pícaro (rogue) and Spanish theatre comedy. Stand-up in Mexico includes original material but consists mainly on telling a standard repertoire of many jokes which have remained basically the same over the decades. Rather than the freshness of the material what is important is the style and manner in which the comedian delivers these old jokes. Among the most famous stand-up comedians are Polo Polo and Jorge Falcón.
Singapore
Singapore has a growing stand-up comedy scene with several active venues although there are still no full time comedy club. The Comedy Club Asia offers monthly shows primarily featuring leading international comics such as Paul Ogata, Gina Yashere, Jeff Green and many others. In 2010, The Comedy Club Asia held the 'Kings and Queen of Comedy Asia" featuring the best comedy talent in the region. Kumar, a drag queen who has performed in Singapore for more than 17 years, is Singapore's leading stand-up comedian. In addition, The Comedy Pimp Singapore brings in award-winning headline acts every month.
Poland
Poland stand-up scene is mainly composed of 20-something college grads with backgrounds in media, philosophy, poetry, writing, and film. Currently the scene is limited to a small group of stand-up comedians performing on a regular basis. Almost all stand-up comedy shows are performed in Warsaw. In October 2010 the first season of the Polish "Comedy Central Presents" had its premiere. In 2011 rights for "Comedy Central Presents Season One" was bought by national TV station TVP2. On commercial TV station Polsat in October 2010 the first season of "Stand up. Zabij mnie smiechem" ("Kill me with laughter") had its premiere. In Poland there is a group Stand-up Polska which is uniting stand-up performers.
Pakistan
Some famous Pakistani stand-up comedians are Umar Sharif, Shakeel Siddiqui, Kashif Khan and Sami Shah.
Russia
Comedy Club (Russia) is popular stand-up comedy show in Russia since 2007. The show was started by Garik Martirosyan and other former members of KVN.
Switzerland
In May 2006 Guy Stevens independently created Switzerland's first Comedy Club called in Zurich called the Funny Laundry (a tortured pun) which since 2007 he has toured around the country for four days every two weeks for 9 months of the year with other regular shows in Geneva, Lausanne and Basel. The very first shows in 2006 presented the top of the UK comedy scene with comedians Brendon Burns, Jim Jeffries, Russell Howard, Arthur Smith, Nina Conti and Ed Byrne. Growing demand and success amongst the international expat and multi-lingual Swiss audiences has since seen the presentation of theatre sized shows with comics such as Frankie Boyle, Ardal O'Hanlon, Rich Hall, Sean Hughes and Paul Merton's Impro Chums.
Taiwan
Comedy in Taiwan is mostly sketched based with a lot of physical humor. In 2007, Live Comedy Club Taipei opened (Taipei's first comedy club). Most of the acts performing there are sketch comedy and improv comedy. A group of expats also performs there regularly, including Torch Pratt (singer), Tom Levene, and ventriloquist Matt "The Puppet Guy" Bronsil. Also lots of acts performs stand-up or duo comedy in Chinese, such as The Stand-up Bums, Rifat and Yubon Group.
Comedy festivals
Stand-up comedy is the focus of four major international festivals: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland; Just for Laughs in Montreal, Canada; HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Melbourne, Australia. A number of other festivals operate around the world, most prominently The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, the Vancouver Comedy Festival, the New York Comedy Festival, the Boston Comedy and Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival and the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in Kilkenny, Ireland. Radio hosts Opie and Anthony also produce a comedy tour called Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour, featuring their own co-host, Jim Norton as well as several other stand-up comedians regularly featured on their radio show. There is also a festival in Hong Kong called the HK International Comedy Festival.The festival format has proven quite successful at attracting attention to the art of stand-up, and is often used as a scouting and proving ground by industry professionals seeking new comedic talent.
Other media
Many of the earliest vaudeville-era stand-ups gained their greater recognition on radio. They often opened their programs with topical monologues, characterized by ad-libs and discussions about anything from the latest films to a missed birthday. Each program tended to be divided into the opening monologue, musical number, followed by a skit or story routine. A "feud" between Fred Allen and Jack Benny, was used as comic material for nearly a decade.HBO presented comedians uncensored for the first time, beginning with Robert Klein in 1975, and was instrumental in reaching larger audiences.
Continuing that tradition, most modern stand-up comedians use television or motion pictures to reach a level of success and recognition unattainable in the comedy club circuit alone.
Since the mid-2000s, online video-sharing sites such as YouTube have also provided a venue for stand-up comedy, and many comedians' performances can be viewed online.
See also
References
Bibliography
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