That '50s show was the birthplace of comedians and comedy stylings just as Saturday Night Live has been for so long. |
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Become part of a wandering troupe of comedians who wish to bring about the Second Coming of Python. |
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The performers include four Thai male dancers, two comedians and 10 ladyboys. |
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No, he possesses the real genius that only our greatest comedians can lay claim to. |
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Bowen is the latest in a line of old-style comedians to have landed themselves in hot water after using racially provocative language or jokes. |
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People with hemorrhoids have been stereotyped by the comics or comedians to be laughing stocks. |
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A bunch of usually reliable comedians are dragged down to the film's level. |
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Like all the best comedians, Jethro takes real life and makes it seem ridiculous. |
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About a decade ago, I was asked to appear on a comedy special which featured political comedians. |
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Typical of a Soderbergh movie is the assertion that most low-lifers are comedians at heart. |
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Let's just say it's a platform on which comedians can showcase not only their style, but also the outer limits of their tastelessness. |
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Edinburgh can keep the military tattoo, all of the modern dance, and most of the London stand-up comedians. |
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And I realize that I have been made sport of by an awful lot of folks, particularly the late-night comedians. |
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They are young people and find the older and more self-interested comedians slightly tiresome. |
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It is his first time and for those that don't know it is feared by most comedians as it is a bear pit of a comedy club. |
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It seems a fitting observation on the lives of comedians behind whose talent to amuse so often lies private unhappiness. |
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For our non-UK readers, this is an biennial charity event set up by leading comedians to provide funds for developing countries. |
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A real giveaway to the true nature of comedians is the complex mixture of alcohol, nicotine and caffeine they need to perform. |
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Most of the students who were there at the same time have become stand-up comedians or music-hall singers. |
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Let's hope there will not be any form of backlash following this film's release i.e. people boycotting the comedians who were in it. |
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His deadpan delivery and brain-twisting concepts have made him one of the most recognizable comedians in the business. |
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The reception guest list included politicians, socialites, religious leaders, celebrities and comedians. |
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Like all standup comedians who transition into film careers, he had to buy his way into the business through buffoonery. |
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Some folks would really like to see the late night comedians use their shows as bully pulpits to advance certain positions. |
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In a stand-up culture where comedians are allowed to be outrageous up to the point of their first television contract, Hicks was a mite too edgy. |
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Dave Barry was one of the great stand-up comedians and also a terrific cartoon voice actor. |
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Jeremy is one of the UK's leading stand-up comedians, regularly performing to sell-out audiences around the country and abroad. |
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Sadowitz has always been one of my favourite stand-ups comedians ever since that night. |
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The other comedians, Russell Howard, Nick Page, James Dowdeswell, Sarah Benetto and Milton Jones were all well received by the capacity crowd. |
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I guess working stiffs like their comedians to be aggressively stupid and insultingly formulaic. |
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Garner and Sadler are gifted musicians and talented comedians who have command over physical comedy and character-acting. |
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Do you have any advice for budding young student comedians that you'd like to share with Cherwell readers? |
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There are wonderfully inventive new phrases turned every day by writers, comedians, rap artists and hoodies. |
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People say that the greatest geniuses are always the most troubled and this is surely true of comedians. |
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There will be a comedy panel game as part of the show in which comedians will pit their wits against each other. |
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These were comedians whose work was steeped in social commentary and rich with pathos. |
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Watching the way comedians dealt with difficult audiences was particularly enlightening. |
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As always at a comedy gig, the comedians on stage faced an uphill challenge overcoming the comedians in the audience. |
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The performance featured comedians paying tribute to Goldberg for her contribution to comedy. |
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None of the truly great comedians are funny when you meet them in real life. |
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The radio personalities and vaudeville comedians brought their heightened creativity to the medium and it finally gained a wide audience. |
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We both enjoyed the live performance of these gifted comedians immensely as we both love live theatre and comedy performances. |
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A lot of the way I survived as a stand-up comedian was writing jokes for other comedians. |
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Hire noted comedians and physical actors for the lead roles, provide the straight man, and start firing. |
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Our fearless comedians, who strive every year to find new taboos to breach, are scared of breaching the only one that matters today. |
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No laughing matter, for sure, but late-night comedians have been having a field day, with politics as a punching bag. |
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And to extract humour from annoyances and irritations is what comedians have always done since time immemorial. |
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There is more to one of Scotland's top comedians than reality-TV fodder and tabloid headlines. |
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For instance, comedians didn't seem to mind breaking the fourth wall by talking straight to the audience. |
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Most lawyers are frustrated writers, actors, comedians or performers of some bent or another. |
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Apple became a ritual hate figure on the internet and a punchbag for comedians. |
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For those of you who have never heard of the man, he was one of the wittiest, cleverest and funniest comedians that ever graced this earth. |
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This led to him eventually asking Stephen if he would join him and few other comedians. |
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The original radio series gave many well know comedians their first chance at performing to the public so it did some good. |
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Introduced last year, the annual event explores local talent as well as featuring international comedians as drawcards. |
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Plus, people who become comedians tend not to subscribe to the traditional ideas of career, work or even bathing habits. |
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There were two comedians on staff who put on sketch shows and hosted a talent show. |
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Ronnie Barker was brilliant with the English language whereas today's comedians have to rely on crudeness, smuttiness and sexual innuendo to raise a laugh. |
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Female comedians like Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, and tig Notaro were held up by the media on How to Tell a Rape Joke. |
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Even if there are a few more, the list is dwarfed by the number of famous progressive comedians. |
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But I've noticed that the late night comedians have really started ratcheting up the criticism of him, and this notion of him being kind of dumb and unready is taking hold. |
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Is it because the biracial comedians seamlessly slip into the characters and skewer racial stereotypes? |
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Efforts to pin down the exact nature of jibe and jest have challenged pundits, professional fools, antic clowns, studious gagmen, comedians of every kind and medium. |
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Firstly, many comedians are totally unfunny in an interview situation. |
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It's funny how most of that generation of comedians have transformed into washed-up has-beens or else are producing safe, unchallenging cosy comedy for the 35-55 age group. |
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With a name full of jargon jive and a cast of unknown comedians and aspiring actors, this marketed as a hip urban comedy sounds like a prescription for disaster. |
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It was getting to create jokes at the source, and to get to hang out with comedians. |
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Mimes and jugglers swarmed among the tables, followed by young comedians with mirthless eyes, living by their wits, like dancing bears and philosophers. |
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I would say that, you know, a lot of comedians milk an audience. |
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He may be the last link to the old Borscht Belt comedians, the old Vegas, the old nightclubs and stage shows, the real swank days of lounge culture. |
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Media critic Jennifer L. Pozner talks to nine comedians about C.K., tosh, and whether feminism and comedy are natural combatants. |
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Four comedians square off over the felt at Sydney's Star City casino, playing Texas hold 'em poker with sponsor's money, with the winnings going to charity. |
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This was a shining example of teamwork, in which three great comedians combined to create an amusing and cohesive whole to a diverse and difficult play. |
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We did a comedy table and got a bunch of comedians to talk out joke suggestions, because Spider-Man is known for his quips. |
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Such is the lazy refrain of third-rate comedians, sneering metropolitan commentators and people who have never visited but believe everything they read or hear. |
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Rodney Dangerfield was taunted at school for his unusual bug-eyed appearance, but by his late forties he was established as one of America's most popular comedians. |
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A lot of comedians are insecure show-offs, and not particularly funny. |
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It's a kind of hothouse testing ground for talent, where you might find writers taking a turn at singing, wrestlers reading poetry, or comedians playing jazz guitar. |
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At least, that's the way I heard Monica tell the story at a Friar's Club tableful of comedians, all of whom nodded that he'd done that to them, as well. |
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Self depreciating comedians are usually among the most popular. |
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The modern-day comedians still look at them as the first and the best. |
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Up the Creek hosts well known acts as well as new comedians. |
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All this law has provided ample fodder for late-night comedians, who regale us with the latest legal idiocy. |
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Up and down the country, arts faculties swarm with undergraduates pretending to be overeducated comedians pretending to be in-bred shopkeepers with little piggy noses. |
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Two teams comprising the mouthiest musicians and cockiest comedians compete with each other in a battle of egos. |
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Winstead insisted that the show would be a newscast written by comedians. |
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This reason alone may be why these comedians are vitally needed. |
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Wales has also produced well known comedians including Tommy Cooper, Terry Jones, Harry Secombe, Rhod Gilbert and Paul Whitehouse. |
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Satire and black humour were major features of many of his films, and his performances had a strong influence on a number of later comedians. |
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The British actor Stephen Mangan stated that Sellers was a large influence, as did the comedians Alan Carr and Rob Brydon. |
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The career of Harold Lloyd, one of the top screen comedians of the 1920s, declined precipitously. |
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Such comedians include Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Daniel Tosh, Chris Hardwick, Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman, and Chelsea Handler. |
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In the study, researchers analyzed 404 male and 119 female comedians from Australia, Britain, and the United States. |
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Forbes publishes an annual list of the most financially successful comedians in the world, similarly to their Celebrity 100 list. |
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In a 2005 poll The Comedians' Comedian, Cooper was voted the sixth greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. |
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In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was in the top 50 comedy acts voted for by comedians and comedy insiders. |
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The pair began working as tradesmen on a house shared by comedians Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball, which inspired them to start writing comedy. |
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Sands Centre Sports Hall is Carlisle's main entertainment venue which sometimes hosts touring musicians, theatre and comedians. |
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No one doubts that these comedians will be killed if ISIS captures them. |
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As original comedians go, the German techno-music playing, boilersuit wearing, comedy duo are unique. |
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Bren walks the fine line of becoming one of the greatest comedians ever or dying in complete obscurity. |
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Certain comedians get rattled by it, but a good heckler can really get you going. |
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They could get comedians to train staff to make more amusing tannoy announcements. |
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Holy Flying Circus THE Monty Python team were never the sort of comedians to create safe, cosy humour. |
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Boston stand-up comedians vied for the right to compete through a series of open mic nights at Boston Bass accounts this spring. |
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At the beating heart of the department are detectives John Mahogany and Mitch Rust, played by comedians Steen Raskopoulos and John Kearns. |
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In that year, the eight highest paid comedians were from the United States, including Amy Schumer, who became the first woman to be listed in the top ten. |
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And no arts show discussing comedy would be worth its salt if it didn't tackle the old chestnut of 'Why aren't there more female stand-up comedians? |
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Some unlikely singing partnerships have been formed, from Sir Cliff Richard and The Young Ones singing Livin' Doll to comedians Hale and Pace with The Stonk. |
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In the 80s, I was part of a group of comedians called the Funny Farm. |
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In a January 2014 study, conducted in the British Journal of Psychiatry, scientists found that comedians tend to have high levels of psychotic personality traits. |
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It's based on the simple premise of noughts and crosses, but with celebrities in the boxes and comedians Tim Vine and Joe Wilkinson are permanent residents. |
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These shows often receive high ratings, likely because many comedians band together to create jokes, rather than one comedian creating his own jokes. |
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The town has hosted the Machynlleth Comedy Festival annually since May 2010, featuring comedians such as Jon Richardson, Pappy's, Josie Long, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. |
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As well as dancers, magicians, musicians and escapologists, you'll find actors and comedians out in their hundreds trying to convince you to see their show. |
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Chaplin also strongly influenced the work of later comedians. |
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The event, held in conjunction with Pachuco Car Club, included food and entertainment from a variety of acts ranging from blues bands to stand-up comedians. |
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Softie' Londoner Markus Birdman then had the room eating out of his hand as he goose-stepped through a set that justifies claims he's one of the best comedians in the country. |
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A TRIO of comedians have been lined up for this month's Barnstormers comedy night at the Royal Spa Centre in Leamington, which takes place tomorrow. |
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Hosted by Hugh Dennis, it gives up-and-coming comedians the chance to compete in ad-libbed games and scenes based on material chosen by the presenter and the audience. |
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The theater likes to feature up-and-coming singers and comedians. |
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Many Canadian comedians have archived international success in the American TV and film industries and are amongst the most recognized in the world. |
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In 2011, Gilbert recorded a radio show for BBC Radio 2 called Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs with comedians Lloyd Langford, Greg Davies and Sarah Millican. |
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Punch-Drunk Comedy brings the best stand-up comedians to social clubs in Northumberland, and has raised over PS10,000 for a number of charities in the process. |
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