Crossword clues for comedian
comedian
- Improv performer
- One who gives a hoot?
- Stand-up kind of guy?
- Joke teller
- Joke-telling entertainer
- Tig Notaro or Hannah Gadsby
- Sitcom star, often
- One doing routine procedures?
- Highway divider in the Centennial State?
- He does a stand-up job
- Danny Kaye
- Crystal or Rock
- Benny or Hope, e.g
- 2002 Jerry Seinfeld documentary
- An actor in a comedy
- A professional performer who tells jokes and performs comic acts
- Jerry Seinfeld, e.g.
- Wag
- Jonathan Winters, e.g.
- Entertainer and press taken in by scam
- Wag papers etc during trick
- Humorous entertainer
- Arrive before loud noise envelops a stand-up performer?
- Performer against restraining press
- Joker with trick taking in broadcasters etc
- Joker entered, having failed grammar, claiming top mark
- The same old turns covered by prison entertainer
- Stand-up guy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Comedian \Co*me"di*an\, n. [Cf. F. com['e]dien.]
An actor or player in comedy. ``The famous comedian, Roscius.''
--Middleton.A writer of comedy.
--Milton. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "comic poet," later (c.1600) "stage actor in comedies," also, generally, "actor," from Middle French comédien, from comédie (see comedy). Meaning "professional joke-teller, etc." is from 1898.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes. 2 (context by extension English) Any person who is characteristically humorous or amusing. 3 A writer of comedy.
WordNet
n. a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts [syn: comic]
an actor in a comedy
Wikipedia
A comedian or comic, is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comic.
A popular saying, variously quoted but generally attributed to Ed Wynn, is, "A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny", which draws a distinction between how much of the comedy can be attributed to verbal content and how much to acting and persona.
Since the 1980s, a new wave of comedy, called alternative comedy, has grown in popularity with its more offbeat and experimental style. This normally involves more experiential, or observational reporting, e.g. Alexei Sayle, Daniel Tosh, Louis C.K. and Malcolm Hardee. As far as content is concerned, comedians such as Tommy Tiernan, Des Bishop, and Joan Rivers draw on their background to poke fun at themselves, while others such as Jon Stewart, and Ben Elton have very strong political and cultural undertones.
Many comics achieve a cult following while touring famous comedy hubs such as the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, the Edinburgh Fringe, and Melbourne Comedy Festival in Australia. Often a comic's career advances significantly when they win a notable comedy award, such as the Edinburgh Comedy Award (formerly the Perrier comedy award). Comics sometimes foray into other areas of entertainment, such as film and television, where they become more widely known; e.g., Eddie Izzard or Ricky Gervais. However, a comic's stand-up success does not guarantee a film's critical or box office success.
A comedian is an entertainer who performs in a comic manner, especially by telling jokes.
Comedian or comedians may also refer to:
Comedian is a 2002 documentary film focusing on Jerry Seinfeld that explores the other side of stand-up comedy; that is, the preparation, politics, nerves, creativity, and so on. The film also features an up-and-coming comic named Orny Adams as he struggles to make it in show business. Many other recognizable comedians also make at least a cameo, including Colin Quinn, Greg Giraldo, Jim Norton, Ray Romano, Godfrey, Chris Rock, George Wallace, Mario Joyner, Jay Leno, Tom Papa, and Bill Cosby.
The film's unusual trailer featured famous voice-over artist Hal Douglas speaking in a recording booth.
The film was theatrically released in the United States on October 11, 2002 and grossed about $2.8 million domestically.
Usage examples of "comedian".
Tom is married to the sister of Bartley, the comedian, and carries with him into private life the estimation which ever attends him in public.
Ray Douglas Bradbury shares with comedian Jack Benny the distinction of having been born in Waukegan, Illinois.
From the 7th October to the end of December, 1780, on the occasions of the representations given by a troupe of French comedians at the San Angelo theater, Casanova wrote a little paper called The Messenger of Thalia.
It was a look that drew teenie-boppers and at the same time assured Mom and Dad that he was really an okay guy, probably a class cutup but nothing to worry about, kike the assessment from another ABC brain-anail-American comedian.
He was followed by the French and the Italian comedians, and by the actors and actresses of the opera.
All of them -- fifteen or so including Huggins, Pineapple, Wright, Farneti, Barber, Shock, and an aspiring comedian named Mark Wilkes -- hung out between sets in the greenroom, a small, dark space with fake-wood paneling and a beer-stained floor, talking and drinking, all of them wired from stage time.
The shrinkbot takes him back through early childhood rejections, and all the time Carlton is monitoring him and taking notes on the Intrapsychic Personality Problems of the White Face Comedian.
I suppose that Lupinus, the learned student, who will receive his diploma at the end of a few weeks, would tear himself from the arms of his beloved Science, to go with a comedian before the king, and bear witness for the hated and despised actors?
Aisles, the first aion comedian, chuckled, drained his beer, and blew a note like the bellowing of a cow for her calf across the neck.
Internet tended to capture the imaginations of FM disc jockeys, sports announcers, and late-night comedians.
Whether from fickleness or from jealousy, he abandoned the Fragoletta, and joined in Venice a troop of comedians then giving performances at the Saint-Samuel Theatre.
The Italian comedians obtained at that time permission to perform parodies of operas and of tragedies.
He found Manhattan audiences a little cold, though New York comedians he knew from the road such as Dave Attell, Jon Stewart, and Ray Romano often stuck around after their own sets to watch him.
It was a nightclub to accommodate bad comedians, a theater-in-the-round for acrobats and animal acts, even subway seating for buskers with guitar cases open at their feet for tips.
The former husband was a nightclub comedian of Puerto Rican extraction named Jerry Cha-cha Rivera, who was shot as an innocent bystander during the robbery of a RAMJAC carwash in Hollywood.