Jarlath Reagan, a stand-up with a growing reputation will be the main support to Neil Delamere. |
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So they went out and found her the best of the best, so that she could learn what acting was, because she was a stand-up. |
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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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To mark this year's inaugural Richard Pryor award for comedy, we asked a group of comics to put a question to the great stand-up. |
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It's made from 100-percent quilted nylon and has a stand-up collar, so it's just the thing to keep you warm and dry. |
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It's a place where people appreciate good stand-up because they see so much of it. |
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So I tried stand-up, with the idea of joining the chosen few looking laconic and world-weary in the bars every night. |
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What do you get out of stand-up that you can't get anywhere else in your career? |
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Yet he flips out of his dumb-assed character whenever he wants to deliver snippets of nicely observed, no-nonsense stand-up. |
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It can match silk blouses, topwear with stand-up collars or v-shaped collars, loose trousers, or skirts. |
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It was in high school that Foley discovered his interest in comedy when he began writing stand-up for a school project. |
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Well, I'm out doing some stand-up right now, actually, which is kind of my roots. |
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There were times Fox's producers could have replaced lead announcer Mike Joy with a cardboard stand-up. |
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When we are out, we try to get at least two interviews, find a personal angle, get B-roll and do a stand-up. |
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Game retailers encourage potential customers to preview soon-to-be domestic games, encased within stand-up arcade consoles. |
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Smith, who was born in 1951, set out to be a painter, but exposure to performance art, video and stand-up comedy led him in other directions. |
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Featuring a variety of music, stand-up comedy, dance and illusion, Bollywood Nights aims to be a fun night out for the family. |
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It was the first time yours truly, Robert Cullen, stepped on to a stage to perform stand-up comedy. |
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The jacket features a stand-up collar with tri-color design, an open bottom hem with Shockcord drawstring closure and cord lock holder. |
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The benefit will feature a variety of acts, from klezmer to jazz to stand-up comedy. |
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For example, Eddie Izzard's stand-up comedy performance film Dress To Kill includes a commentary track by him. |
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Despite the discouraging situation, he was fuelled with material for his stand-up comedy routine. |
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After my show last night, a woman approached me to ask me if I'd consider performing stand-up comedy at her wedding. |
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His brilliant and potent comedy, song and stand-up have established him as one of Ireland's leading performers. |
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The first independent entrant, LCDR Simon Rooke, worked the crowd with his stand-up comedy routine, which proved very popular. |
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Then we watched some Dave Chappelle stand-up, and somewhere in there the paramedic called me. |
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He has a wicked and withering sense of humour, and continues to perform stand-up comedy around the country. |
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Finally there are Comedy Central quickies featuring some more stand-up comedy by various performers. |
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A guy comes out and does a stand-up comedy routine at the start of the show about economics. |
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His start came at the tender age of 18 when he began performing stand-up comedy on a dare from his University dorm mates. |
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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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Deirdre has become on of Ireland's most recognised and acclaimed performers in stand-up comedy in recent years. |
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Eventually, Cat, a civil engineer with Cork County Council, turned on Dean and the debate turned into a stand-up row before the two stormed off. |
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Some anglers also use a harness, but this is rarely necessary for average fit anglers and a stand-up fight is typical and most rewarding. |
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I put on my black tank top and my black jacket with the buttons on the stand-up collar. |
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This week's action has involved Thomas Mesereau and the accuser's mother having stand-up cat fights in the courtroom. |
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There were stand-up rows, stormy walk-outs and tearful tantrums about faded careers. |
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I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. |
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He had a stand-up row with Laura Nyro during a demo taping as he insisted that she should stick to cover versions and other people's songs. |
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There's a surreal one-liner about a suicidal subway train that's worthy of Woody Allen's best stand-up. |
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Once upon a time, I'd have a stand-up argument with someone like this, right there and then in the shop. |
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We also sell memorial plaques, stand-up crucifixes and silky white or purple quilts for pets to lie on. |
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As good as those matches were, they will never replace really good, stand-up fights. |
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Features a stand-up collar with locker loop inside back neck, dyed-to-match snap-front closures and slant waist pockets. |
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Cabin crew were involved in a stand-up argument with the man in front of dozens of Irish holiday-makers. |
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We may disagree on political issues, but there are stand-up people in the United States Senate and in the House of Representatives. |
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And I thought that was a stand-up thing to do, and I thought maybe this is a step toward removing this. |
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The most formal choice and the style most often worn with tuxedo jackets, this stand-up collar has downward points. |
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Is Jim Boyd a stand-up guy who is willing to debate this important issue fairly, and on the merits? |
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Krugman's analysis had entirely to do with show, with symbols, with heroes and villains, stand-up guys and wimps. |
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I'd be remiss not to mention two of my dear friends, Robbie Ellis and Chris Hero, who are both stellar, stand-up guys. |
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There he was, in delicate profile, an angelic child wearing a big Mozart-style stand-up jacket collar and ruffled shirt. |
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I'm talking about the sort of satin capes with stand-up collars that Elvis wore in Vegas, or that wrestlers wear as they enter the ring. |
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I also think it's appalling that Mark Felt, who is a stand-up guy, only gets twice as much as a woman who runs away from her own wedding. |
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He always has been that kind of stand-up guy, as well as polite to a fault. |
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And we'll also hear from Robert Klein, a stand-up guy who's also saved lives. |
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The Ken Lay I knew was a stand-up guy who did everything he could for his community and I lost money in Enron. |
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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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Riding boards in a prone position has been around probably longer than stand-up surfing. |
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She keeps her stand-up sharp by hitting the Provincetown comedy circuit every summer. |
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Writing stand-up only heightens my sense that one joke, plus another joke, plus another all adds up to a superficial experience. |
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A stand-up goalie with a lightning quick glove, Osgood is as skillful as any other netminder in the league. |
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Nokise is the first Pacific Islander to work fulltime on the United Kingdom stand-up comedy circuit. |
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Like a vaudeville performer, Victorian novelist, or stand-up comic, Hirst will do anything to hold your attention. |
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That's why their foaming at the mouth over a tasteless stand-up act is pure demagoguery. |
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Applicants for the Stand-Up Award need to send in a VHS video cassette of their stand-up routine. |
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But during that time, I was also doing stand-up comedy and I worked in a holiday camp as well, which I still do. |
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It has a stand-up collar with detachable hood, and a zipper with double storm flaps and Velcro closures. |
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There's a stand-up head in the center console and lots of lockable stowage. |
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Fallen comic Michael Barrymore returned to stand-up comedy for the first time in years last night as he attempted to resurrect his career in the West End. |
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This year the Arts Alive International Festival promises to be an extravaganza, with music, dance, art, poetry, stand-up comedy and theatre on the bill. |
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At the stand-up comedy there is deep relief in seeing an audience of assorted South Africans all howling with laughter at themselves being ripped off. |
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Depending on which weapons and powerups you use, you can choose to fight run and gun, snipe from a distance or have a plain stand-up fight behind cover. |
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I had expected a stand-up row followed by an avalanche of tears and I could not tell if what had transpired was better or worse than I had imagined. |
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A stand-up row with the then England captain Mike Brearley followed, with Lillee arguing that the rulebook didn't state that a bat must be made of willow. |
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She insisted that only 7 be allowed into the house and they had a stand-up row on the side of the road as she refused him permission to move extra beds into the house. |
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He'd known Sonny since freshman year of high school, a real stand-up guy. |
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Fassel is a stand-up guy who was willing to go down with the ship even after being fired, and he will be rewarded for that attitude sometime soon. |
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Hence the rise of bottled beers imported from countries where beer drinkers are respected as stand-up citizens and where a flat pint of lager just would not be tolerated. |
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The stand-up collar was similar to the Western-style, and the three hidden pockets of Western suits were changed into four outside pockets with flaps. |
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Tom Ridge must be a stand-up guy and an all-around great American. |
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Don't you fancy doing stand-up which is slightly more respectable? |
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He began performing stand-up at open mics around New York City at the age of 15, and thanks to his ear for imitations, he quickly became a club favorite. |
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Republican civility is something conservative comics wrestle with, given it inhibits their use of the shock effects that modern stand-up relies on. |
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Their show is a mix of burlesque, cabaret and improvised stand-up. |
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Comedy Stewart Lee Lee's extended riff on his Jerry Springer hounding and poor health is one of the most intelligent pieces of stand-up for years. |
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In the early '90s there was stand-up on every channel all the time. |
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So it will be interesting to see if Oliver Stone dramatizes this event and has the reporter doing that mock stand-up so close, because we were not close. |
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Have you ever gotten up in front of a crowd for anything like karaoke, poetry readings, or open-mic stand-up comedy? |
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If they're going to play a huge front five, they need to have a stand-up centre to give them a target man. |
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Then came a career switch to stand-up comedy, TV acting, movie roles and, finally, the lairdship of Candacraig. |
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The improbable combo, including stand-up bass and flugelhorn, is as incongruous as its frontman. |
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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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An undeniably good stand-up Burke has an instinct for playful mischief that influences much of his set. |
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The high-waisted coat, with a stand-up mandarin collar, was trimmed with white leather. |
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Before he became a film director he was a stand-up comedian and comic actor. |
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Juanita used her critique to discuss her late lamented career in stand-up comedy. |
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Lawrence, like Richard Pryor before him, uses his stand-up act as a forum to tell his side of the story. |
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It's astounding that, at 24 years of age, the stand-up comic has already dabbled in more professions than most people attempt in a lifetime. |
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Presumably, the intent is for these exchanges to add a little comic relief, but even a bad stand-up comedian would stay away from this material. |
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At its worst, it's like a humorless stand-up comic's miserable childhood routine. |
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They had sought him out to discover whether having a long barnet and beard makes a stand-up more or less comic. |
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Lee, meanwhile, welcomed the new millennium by giving up stand-up entirely. |
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Half of the work for a stand-up comic is actually the willingness to put yourself out there and give it a shot. |
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Sara is a writer and stand-up comic who works quite happily in San Francisco, thank you very much. |
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I guess someone needs to stand-up and put their name to any anti-Racism campaign that eventuates from this. |
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My grandfather was a clergyman in the Church of England and he was one of the funniest stand-up comics I ever met. |
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But I did arrive at a point in my life where I realized I would not be a huge stand-up comic. |
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We sat laughing and gasping in awe at the writing, the delivery and the sheer brilliance of Britain's best stand-up comic. |
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The comic had risen through the stand-up ranks, working hard at developing an act after his initial performances drew derision. |
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Although this astonishing horse never sets hoof on stage, it looms large in the mind's eye, thanks to this stand-up comic monologue. |
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High self-image and low self-esteem, according to one theory, lie at the heart of the stand-up comic. |
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Following his successful career as a stand-up comedian and a stint on Saturday Night Live, Murphy practically wrote his own ticket for success. |
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This sophisticated stand-up comedy confronts and surprises audiences by shattering myths about deafness and cross-cultural love. |
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As a stand-up comedian I had a love of the history of stand-up comedy and entertainment. |
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For example, female stand-up professionals were miffed that they were neither recognized in the category breakdowns, nor in the nominations. |
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They involved live music, interviews, stand-up comedy and video, and had been regularly attracting an audience of a couple of hundred people. |
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It's rare to find a stand-up with such a gift for characterisation or such original and well-researched material. |
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He promptly ordered his band to perform improv stand-up comedy to entertain the crowd during this moment of unexpected difficulty. |
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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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They dream of a return to that now vanished golden era when a Northern stand-up comedian with a trade-mark whine for a voice led the party. |
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For those who remain in ignorance, he was the greatest stand-up comedian of all time. |
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Howard Spencer-Mosley enjoys taking the mick with his alternative York guided tours and anarchic stand-up. |
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While he considers himself first and foremost a stand-up comedian, his television career is on quite a roll. |
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Among other things, it brought the stand-up comedian's family-friendly humor to the mainstream. |
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You'd call him the grandfather of stand-up comedy, if grandfather didn't seem altogether too cosy. |
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Apparently slam poetry is competitive performance poetry with bits of hip-hop and stand-up thrown in for good measure. |
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She sits through most Council meetings like a rabbit caught in the headlights whilst her deputy tries out his stand-up comic routine. |
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When you have a hamster in your head than runs on its wheel at 300 revolutions a second, you certainly don't have to plan your stand-up act. |
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The cream of northern stand-up is coming to York in a show of solidarity for beleaguered York City fans. |
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Far from the stand-up rows and slanging matches of previous months, councillors kept their voices low, and largely, their comments to themselves. |
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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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Features include a stand-up fleece lined collar, raglan sleeves and heavy duty rib cuffs and waistband. |
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Patiently, he told me how he got into what we now call stand-up comedy by accident. |
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In stand-up, you are the booker, the marketer, the promoter, and the performer. |
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Jon is a friendly, creative stand-up comedian, with a love of languages, martial arts, and a healthy loathing for heavy physical exertion. |
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By night, he's a singer and stand-up comic who uses bad language and tackles controversial social issues. |
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So if you establish yourself as a smart aleck who can do excellent stand-up comedy, it would hardly do to exclude it from your fiction. |
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The block includes talk shows, stand-up and sketch comedy and docuseries. |
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He was one of a handful of amazingly talented people whose efforts helped define what it is that we today, call stand-up comedy. |
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I watch his stand-up, I watch Chris Rock's, I read Baldwin and Baraka, I listen to Kanye. |
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The actor showed tremendous range in the role, bouncing between his wacky stand-up persona and gentler dramatic work. |
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The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect. |
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Years ago, after a stand-up row with a queue-jumping Bulgarian peasant in a post office in Bulgaria, I realised that queues are not important in many other countries. |
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Marber was a stand-up comedian and his quips and quick-fire repartee are deftly handled by the four actors, who bring out comedy in the pain and the pathos in the cruel barbs. |
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Later, she said he invited her to see The Temptations in concert and check out his Vegas stand-up show. |
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He soon garnered a reputation as a stellar stand-up comic, making regular appearances on def Comedy Jam. |
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He still characterises himself as having a foot in both the stand-up and theatre worlds and is currently working with Murphy on putative comic projects. |
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Ken comes alive in a theatre situation, and his wit and intelligence are a refreshing change to the mundane stand-up acts as he makes you see life through new eyes. |
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She founded the legendary drag festival that is held in Manhattan every year, and created her own trademarked routine of singing and dancing fused with stand-up comedy. |
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He has now reinvented himself as a radical stand-up with just enough charm and stagecraft to get away with an amazingly low ratio of jokes to running time. |
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He pointed out that Leno still plays to sell-out crowds when he performs stand-up. |
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Events include role playing games, table-top war gaming, board gaming, card gaming, computer gaming, LARPS, stand-up comedy shows and anime screenings. |
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Show Us Ya Wits is a zany hour of belly-achingly funny and fresh stand-up. |
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It plays out like a good stand-up comedy routine, frequently coming back to several details or situations, which get more funny through repetition and changing context. |
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Early this year, Cosby had a sitcom in development for NBC and a stand-up special in development for Netflix. |
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Kunstler has the tartness and timing of a stand-up comic, so his complaints about American life often end up being as hilarious as they are damning. |
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I read that the series Hello Ladies came from a stand-up show of yours. |
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Before piegate, May-Bowles had tried his hand at a combination of activism and stand-up comedy. |
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Do you draw much of a distinction between Cosby as a performance artist, a storyteller, and a stand-up comic? |
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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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It was recorded as a little online extra while mason and his crew waited to film a stand-up for the broadcast news program. |
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One son is a white boxer, the other a stand-up comedian of mixed race. |
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A stand-up comedian in a self-titled sitcom revolving around his musings about nothing? |
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A stand-up ride on an unbroken wave is the ultimate goal for the beginner. |
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The former stand-up comedian has evolved into one of the most versatile entertainers in showbiz. |
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Dice had just finished a stand-up show in Westbury, and his manager phoned to tell him Woody Allen wanted a meeting. |
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The stand-up stage is a place where comics can be zanier and more outlandish versions of themselves. |
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But something was lost when the unarmed, as it were, and solitary stand-up comic gave way to the plugged-in sitdown comic. |
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That paean to one man's oafishness and insensitivity, Curb Your Enthusiasm, is built around a comedian who couldn't make it in stand-up because he was too abrasive. |
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What ensues is neither stand-up nor sketch comedy, but a fluid multimedia happening that co-opts the audience and a bewildering number of stooges. |
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He recently finished his last two gigs in Calgary and will be hopping on a Greyhound bus with his trusty stand-up bass, headed for greener pastures across the country. |
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There have been fallings-out between them before, visceral back-biting and stand-up rows that are often settled long before they enter the public domain. |
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I think at his peak, he was the funniest stand-up comedian ever. |
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The Christchurch gang show is one of the longest running in Britain, and features a cast of 60 who will present an extravaganza of songs, sketches and stand-up comedy. |
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It has set a new standard for televised sketch comedy and stand-up. |
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Kay also brought in some comics he had met on the stand-up circuit. |
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These stand-up comics make a living performing at Comedy Clubs. |
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While in San Francisco, Faulkner began dipping his toe in stand-up comedy. |
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Britain's dourest deadpan stand-up comedian returns to tickle the nation's funny bone with a recording of his So What? |
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Farhat outclassed his Lebanese stand-up paddle board competitors, as he takes the sport more seriously than most. |
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Price check on Aisle 4, for Tori Spelling's silver spoon,'' he joked in another on-camera stand-up. |
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Fishermen have used various forms of stand-up paddle when diving for sea sponge, organizers said. |
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The two new stand-up handset phones are model FF667 and FF668, both with compander noise supression circuitry and 10-number memory. |
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Comedian Dean Burnett, a PhD neuroscientist at Cardiff University, has become a well-known face on the stand-up circuit. |
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But I run daily or go to the gym and go in a kayak or on a stand-up paddleboard. |
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That nightmarish sweaty-palmed humiliation is nothing compared with trying stand-up comedy for the first time. |
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Now in its eighth year, Stand Out is the stand-up comedy course for 14 to 18-year-olds delivered by the Liverpool-based Comedy Trust. |
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Harry Babasin quickly realized the cello's tone was brighter and easier to hear than a stand-up bass, which made it better suited for solos. |
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One of the sharpest and most entertaining stand-ups around, in 2010 he was voted 16th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups. |
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I'm seen as a stand-up or a person on a panel show, not as an actor. |
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Mike, who was a year or two my junior, took down his rope and threw out a nice stand-up loop that trapped the hind feet of a rear echelon cow. |
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Jimmy Tarbuck had done a stand-up comedy routine, and had been supported by a group known as Vic and the Spidermen. |
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Muay Thai is a combat sport from the Muay martial arts of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. |
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But with the dead-pan humour of Patrick Warburton as his married pal, plus stand-up David Spade, provide plenty of laughs. |
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This was before stand-up comedy had been invented, and, in context, it was an absolute thigh-slapper. |
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Ah, there's a hint of the pessimism, or possibly realism, that's endeared the miserabilist stand-up to both audiences and TV bosses. |
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Host of the Funny Bone, Steven Davidson is a stand-up comedian, published writer, voiceover artist, radio host and sketch comedy creator. |
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A pop-culture pundit on a variety of VH-1 shows, as well as a stand-up comedian, Salie has also written several shows for the Oxygen Network. |
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He also fronts his own game show, Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong, has written his autobiography, and continues to perform as a stand-up. |
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Which is where Andy Parsons' new stand-up show, Gruntled, comes in. |
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Pro athletes will be showcasing their skills while offering festival goers the chance to have a go at sports like stand-up paddleboarding, beach volleyball and slacklining. |
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A stand-up comedian, actor, improvisor and presenter for the last six years, he has toured across Britain, as well as Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Norway. |
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Realizing that she has an audience of these ladies and other homebound goobers, Kern stepped up her comments and started doing stand-up on the antigay circuit. |
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A mix of stand-up and sitcom, its biggest USP, however, was the deconstructionist way Monteith would frequently break off to address the audience directly. |
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Kite and paddle boarding Kite boarding, stand-up paddle boarding and beach power kite flying are three activities which can be experienced on the Eyre Peninsula. |
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One of the girls was telling us how she'd fancied this guy who was a stand-up comedian for years and had finally got off with him the other night. |
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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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Nothing makes for a more exciting Saturday evening than good food, heady drinks and a couple of stand-up gagsters who do not know the first word of political correctness. |
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Dara, who delivered an outstanding display of such comic crotchetiness on BBC2's Room 101, carries on by underlining why this persona functions so effectively in stand-up. |
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Sharing tonight's billing is Liam Mullone who is said to share his work-load between performing stand-up comedy and contributing obituaries to The Times. |
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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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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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Ten years ago, when he was starting out as a stand-up, Rainer and his comedy partner Peter Wylie were the guest spot at the Bear Cat Cabaret in Twickenham. |
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Tucked away at the back of Argentous is a 35-knot speedboat complete with water skis, wakeboard and stand-up paddle boards for exploring the coast. |
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A ceremony held in Brunssum, The Netherlands, on 15 October marked the official stand-up of the new North Atlantic Treaty Organization Response Force. |
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If you ask me, he's one of the last stand-up gunslingers around. |
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In Barjatya's films, Prem is invariably a stand-up gentleman with strong moral values and a willingness to sacrifice his personal happiness for the greater good. |
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Our ultimate goal is continue increasing the accessibility and popularity of stand-up comedy and we know that MySpace is the perfect partner to help make that happen. |
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