Simon Amstell is, among many other things, a stand-up comedian.
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One does not "talk it out" with a stand-up comedian.
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A stand-up comedian died onstage during a performance Thursday evening.
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David Carl, a stand-up comedian, has been impersonating politicians since 2006.
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According to his Twitter page, he is also a stand-up comedian.
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Dixon is a stand up comedian with a knack for Instagram captions.
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Orli Matlow, a New York-based stand-up comedian, echoes this sentiment.
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Stormy Daniels is taking a spin at being a stand-up comedian.
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I wanted to be a stand-up comedian for a long time.
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" Left: "My uncle was the French-Tunisian stand-up comedian Élie Kakou.
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Among the three new cast members was stand-up comedian Shane Gillis.
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Or maybe she's made you laugh as a hilarious stand-up comedian.
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He's a stand-up comedian who incorporates Ariana Grande jokes into his lineup.
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Before becoming an academic he used to work as a stand-up comedian.
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TOM, SHILLUE, AMERICAN STAND-UP COMEDIAN: This whole thing is headed for disaster.
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"Veteran stand-up comedian Ian Cognito has died on-stage — literally," he said.
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" My script here says he's a "stand-up comedian and early YouTube star.
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This fall has been a whirlwind for Chanty Marostica, Toronto-based stand-up comedian.
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He said in a Twitter biography that he was also a stand-up comedian.
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Remember — how could you forget — how Michael Scott fancies himself a stand-up comedian?
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Veteran stand-up comedian and actor Kevin Meaney died Friday ... but it's unclear why.
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The stand-up comedian stars in "Sunnyside," an NBC sitcom created by Kal Penn.
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When Iseman isn't hosting "American Ninja Warrior," he's headlining clubs as a stand-up comedian.
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And you know, he was a stand up comedian, so I'm living with a comedian.
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She was the first African-American female stand-up comedian to ever host the show.
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The stand up comedian added that she may actually enjoy some drugs during her pregnancy.
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Rachel Parris, a stand-up comedian, delves into topical issues and pokes fun at politicians.
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Stand-up comedian, Dave Merheje, is doing just that with his comedy and acting roles.
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"I understood the attempt," Kagiso Lediga, a prominent stand-up comedian, said in an interview.
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He loved stand-up comedian Ryan Niemiller, who joked right away about his physical challenges.
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"Veteran stand-up comedian Ian Cognito has died on-stage -- literally," Carr wrote on Twitter.
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There's just Arthur, a stand-up comedian turned Joker, and it's dark and twisted as hell.
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As a podcaster and stand-up comedian, she makes the audiobook sound fresh, funny and real.
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The stand-up comedian has an Instagram account dedicated to her resemblance to the Emmy-winning actress.
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Natalia Kouneli (NK): I knew within minutes that Leah was a stand-up comedian in sign language.
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Davidson, also 24, is a stand up comedian best known for being attached to Saturday Night Live.
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Kumail, played by himself, is an aspiring stand-up comedian, polishing a set in a Chicago nightclub.
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Instead, Scott was inspired to work in this space because he became a stand-up comedian himself.
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I met him in 1974, I was just getting started as a stand-up comedian and struggling.
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" Gould is also a stand-up comedian and spent seven years as a writer for "The Simpsons.
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Brett Rossi is a model, entertainer, dancer, pornographic actress, and stand-up comedian based in Los Angeles.
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Early on, Roth perfected his "rants" — like a stand-up comedian whose very intensity captivates his audience.
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The one with the stand-up comedian who insisted on recording your back-and-forth for material?
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The movie centers on a stand-up comedian who's on the road and is a little lonely.
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Maybe Kim Tribbeck, a prickly stand-up comedian whose first-person narration forms parts of the novel.
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Netflix, too, had signed a deal with leading stand-up comedian Vir Das for an original comedy series.
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A few close-ups of sweaty bodies later, it's revealed to be everyone's favorite stand-up comedian, Lee.
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The 19883 event also won't feature a stand-up comedian as the featured speaker, another long-held tradition.
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The stand-up comedian and his wife Lana are gearing up to welcome their first child, a daughter.
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You're primarily a stand-up comedian: What was the creative process like to writing a book of essays?
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Maz Jobrani, the Iranian-American stand-up comedian, is giving the speech at his alma mater, UCal-Berkeley.
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"I've had a career that's deeply rooted in family programming," says the actor and stand-up comedian, 56.
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Stand-up comedian and actress Margaret Cho was unveiled as the woman behind the costume after being eliminated.
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He said losing his father at the age of 7 influenced his career as a stand-up comedian.
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She's also a stand-up comedian, two occupations which she says are not as unrelated as they seem.
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You're also a stand-up comedian, actor, musician, and an engaging storyteller as shown in the documentary Mortified.
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As stand-up comedian, writer, actor and podcast host, Esposito delivers a warm and autobiographical ministry of laughter.
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Mr. Segura and his wife — fellow stand-up comedian Christina Pazsitzky — became first-time parents in Dec. 2015.
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Arthur spends his days tending to his ailing mother, but desperately wants to be a stand-up comedian.
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She will also interview the stand-up comedian Brooke Arnold, who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian organization.
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He's a sharp stand-up comedian with particularly impressive hair, a first-generation Indian American, and a Muslim.
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Elmaleh is a Moroccan-born, French stand-up comedian and actor who appeared in 2011's Midnight In Paris.
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Nicolò is a 34-year-old lawyer from Venice, who also happens to work as a stand-up comedian.
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Stand-up comedian, actress and writer Chelsea Peretti got started as part of a comedy troupe called Variety SHAC.
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Stand-up comedian Brody Stevens was found dead Friday after an apparent suicide at his home in Los Angeles.
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For good measure, he added that she was not a talented stand-up comedian—he's a comedian as well.
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Stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu is fighting to unseat Apu from his central position in the American cultural psyche.
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Today, it's actor and stand-up comedian Martha Kelly, who just kicked off the third season of FX's Baskets.
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Camille Harris is a stand-up comedian and a musician who writes and performs both serious and "silly" jazz.
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The stand-up comedian Kathy Griffin took issue with "the boys club" that allowed C.K. back onstage so quickly.
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Today, it's actor and stand-up comedian Demetri Martin, whose directorial debut Dean is out this Friday in theaters.
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Stand-up comedian Dave Johns plays joiner Daniel who is denied disability benefits when unable to work through illness.
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Just your typical lighthearted early-morning talk-show banter between a stand-up comedian and a professional cage-fighter.
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The stand-up comedian Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala became a wildly popular figure with "jokes" that played on Jewish stereotypes.
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Bill Scheft — television writer, author and former stand-up comedian — is the perfect solver to write about today's puzzle.
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To me, saying I want to be a stand-up comedian felt like saying I want to be president.
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Last month, the stand-up comedian Margaret Cho had a bad set at the Stress Factory in New Jersey.
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DeGeneres began her career as a stand-up comedian in New Orleans before rising to fame as an actress.
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Nyong'o, a best supporting actress Oscar winner, is Kenyan-Mexican and Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian.
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Melissa Rocha is a stand-up comedian who also hosts The TV Show Show, a themed comedy variety show.
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The moment I stepped onstage for my first ever performance as a stand-up comedian, my phone went off.
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The stand-up comedian is calling on young people to hit the ballot booth because the stakes are pretty high.
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He's also a successful stand-up comedian and is sometimes known in Scotland as The Big Yin (The Big One).
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Comedian and actor Kevin Hart was the highest-paid stand-up comedian in 2019, making $59 million, according to Forbes.
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The Even Stevens actor first entered the entertainment industry as a stand up comedian when he was 10 years old.
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In January Eshetu Melese, a stand-up comedian, performed his hour-long show about torture under Abiy's predecessors on television.
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The show stars Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a housewife in 1950's New York turned stand-up comedian.
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They include Barclay Jack, an ageing stand-up comedian, and whoever it was who bludgeoned Vince's highly dislikeable estranged wife.
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Jay then meets up with friend and fellow car fanatic, Jeff Dunham, a world-wide ventriloquist and stand-up comedian.
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While I have never been mistaken for a stand-up comedian, I promise that my history lesson won't be dry.
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Davidson started his career as a stand-up comedian and joined popular satirical sketch show "Saturday Night Live" in 2014.
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I told the pageant consultant that I was a graduate student and a stand-up comedian living in New York.
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An aspiring stand-up comedian, he finds comfort in watching a talk show hosted by Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro).
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Conan O'Brien pointed out that the incoming president was a fellow stand-up comedian who'd spent some time on television.
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FIRST PERSON The wife of a stand-up comedian hears jokes about marriage and relationships, set after set after set.
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Whether you're a stand-up comedian or play club soccer, here are 11 surprising things to keep on your resume.
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According to the New York Post, stand-up comedian, Jodell "Joe Show" Lewis, is the one who organized the dinner.
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Stand-up comedian Brody Stevens' struggle with mental illness is listed as a factor in his suicide on his death certificate.
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But I'd like to be a great stand-up comedian, and that takes an immense amount of focus and work ethic.
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He was a stand-up comedian before he started on YouTube, and he's currently on tour around the US and Canada.
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Writer and stand-up comedian Jenny Yang started the hashtag when she tweeted her experience of the movie during the premiere.
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The stand-up comedian, Nerdist CEO and talk show host wed his actress fiancée Lydia Hearst on Saturday, PEOPLE exclusively reports.
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Today, it's stand-up comedian Kyle Kinane, whose 2016 special Loose in Chicago just saw a vinyl release through Comedy Central.
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He performed in the streets of London in the 1980s, and then embarked on his career as a stand-up comedian.
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It was a reminder that Obama could have been a preacher, or a stand-up comedian—but instead, he became president.
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Stand-up comedian Preacher Lawson, who competed on Monday's episode, earned the fan-favorite vote to move forward in the competition.
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" Over email, Dayna Tortorici, Chu's editor at n+1, called her "a feminist theorist in disguise as a stand-up comedian.
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It was founded about 20 years ago by Howe, a former stand-up comedian and actress from New Brunswick turned pugilist.
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Ian Harvie, 50, a transgender male stand-up comedian and actor in Los Angeles, buys Tommy Hilfiger briefs at T.J. Maxx.
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"If she were a stand-up comedian, her timing would be impeccable," says Randy Douthit, the executive producer of the show.
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Sasheer Zamata, the actress, stand-up comedian and former "Saturday Night Live" player, doesn't think of herself as a political comedian.
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The first season of the show focused on Brosnahan's Midge Maisel as she transforms from housewife into a stand-up comedian.
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You might be surprised that the stand-up comedian John Mulaney's list of cultural essentials doesn't contain much that's overtly funny.
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Don was also a successful stand-up comedian, who led an admittedly wild lifestyle and battled alcoholism and a cocaine addiction.
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"Eric's personality is unique — his age, the district he represents," Mr. Trackman, who also works as a stand-up comedian, said.
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Ms. Van Roy started her career as a model and later became a stand-up comedian before turning to film acting.
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There's a stand-up comedian, and I'm actually able to understand about half of what he's saying thanks to that language course.
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Honor for Dave Chappelle: The stand-up comedian and former TV host was awarded the Mark Twain Prize, considered comedy's top honor.
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Aziz Ansari, another stand-up comedian, said that Mr. Chappelle's most creative material has often been found in the most secluded settings.
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"I don't know if it's an Asian American [thing], that kind of attachment to work," the stand-up comedian told BuzzFeed News.
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Over the next two weeks we will be live streaming on the Mashable Entertainment Facebook page with the stranded stand-up comedian.
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And that's how the stand-up comedian who was hospitalized for bipolar disorder helped bring this baleful and bright series to life.
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Or is the movie called Shazaam, starring stand-up comedian Sinbad as an awkward genie who grants wishes to two young children?
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The Times culture writer and stand up comedian Sopan Deb shared a series of screenshots of Maron's lengthy statement on Twitter Monday.
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The stand-up comedian, actor, and screenwriter first got his start in show business as a bodyguard for his brother, Eddie Murphy.
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He added, "While I have never been mistaken for a stand-up comedian, I promise that my history lesson won't be dry."
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Being a "famous" stand-up comedian in the city is about as likely as [hire comedian-intern to write funny analogy here].
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A former lawyer turned professional stand-up comedian who also happens to be an Indian-American Muslim born and raised in Chicago.
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The stand-up comedian Sam Morril, who has appeared on "The Late Show" and "Conan," discusses depression and babies in this special.
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I once had an argument with a stand-up comedian about whether it was possible to do a good bit about fireworks.
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"Joker" follows an aspiring stand-up comedian whose mental health issues and isolation from society lead him to a life of crime.
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What makes Haddish — a stand-up comedian turned in-demand actress — so damn lovable is the unfiltered emotion she brings to every situation.
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"It's not even about us," said Jay Armstrong, a stand-up comedian from outside Cincinnati, Ohio, who has been in recovery since 2005.
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On Comedy It was only a matter of time before a stand-up comedian channeled the righteous rage of the current feminist moment.
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Conan O'Brien took a personal professional interest, he said, in Volodymyr Zelensky, a stand-up comedian who was just elected president of Ukraine.
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This movie comes on like a bad stand-up comedian lobbing a "Hey, having a job — what's that about?" pitch at the audience.
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That disadvantaged boy became Rodney Dangerfield, a stand-up comedian with a self-deprecating style based on his woeful upbringing in Kew Gardens.
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Oh, and as a side hustle, Hannah is in the process of cementing her status as a stand-up comedian on the rise.
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Charlie Murphy, Eddie's older brother, and a very successful and popular stand-up comedian in his own right has died ... TMZ has learned.
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Amy Dresner is a stand-up comedian and author of the new book My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean.
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A trip to the beach sounds absolutely lovely right about this time of year — and it looks like our favorite stand-up comedian agrees.
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Best known as scene-stealer Jian-Yang on HBO's Silicon Valley, Jimmy O. Yang is a talented stand-up comedian in his own right.
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Others receiving honors this year included a pair of Connollys: operatic soprano Sarah Connolly, 53, and Scottish stand-up comedian and actor Billy Connolly.
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Stand-up comedian Whitney Cummings opened up about her role as a showrunner on ABC's Roseanne reboot in a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter.
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One of the people that I work with as a stand-up comedian is a booker who gets me, let's say, "non-conventional" gigs.
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A Scottish stand-up comedian has somehow found the right response to an audience member who gave an incredibly racist response to a joke.
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The Girls Trip actor, also a stand-up comedian, announced she will postpone an upcoming show in Atlanta until the state overturns the ban.
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Sunday Routine Mike Drucker, a stand-up comedian and television writer for TBS's "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," is a four-time Emmy nominee.
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But new Vanderpump Rules cast member Dayna Kathan is an aspiring stand-up comedian, so let's hope she's got jokes as well as drama.
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Bill is a stand-up comedian, and in his podcast, he sits at home and talks to himself for an hour in an entertaining fashion.
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And so begins season 2 of the most New York-centric show in the television universe, about a TV recapper and a stand-up comedian.
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Haddish's Saturday Night Live monologue, as the first Black female stand-up comedian to host the show, is on constant repeat on our YouTube list.
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Behar's liberal voice emerged during her time as a stand-up comedian and she even landed gigs covering elections and Democratic conventions for Comedy Central.
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The way you get that job is you're a poor stand-up comedian trying to find gigs through the holidays, just like every other time.
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I conjured up my boisterous friends, one by one, and imagined myself to be a stand-up comedian and developed comedy routines for each friend.
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Stand-up comedian and actor Pete Davidson has been in the public eye ever since he began appearing on various MTV shows back in 2013.
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Amy Dresner is a former stand-up comedian and author of the new book My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean.
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He wants to be a stand up comedian, mimicking others to learn how to do so, but ends up being the butt of jokes himself.
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He wants to be a stand up comedian, mimicking others to learn how to do so, but ends up being the butt of jokes himself.
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The film takes place in 1981 and tells the backstory of Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who turns to murder in Gotham City.
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Inspired by the real-life exploits of performer Rudy Ray Moore, who was a stand-up comedian and later became a prominent blaxploitation film star.
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Daniels said she would use the money to pay her legal bills and that she was about to start touring as a stand-up comedian.
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I mentioned that I have a friend who is a trans woman and also a stand-up comedian, in hopes of inspiring some professional understanding.
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Soon after, a skinny, bald and bearded African-American convert to Islam and former stand-up comedian from New York arrived to document the scene.
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The stand-up comedian and his artist wife Lana have welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Serafina Simone Maniscalco, he announced Friday on Instagram.
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The stand-up comedian was nearing the end of her Laugh Your Head Off world tour engagement at Dublin's Vicar Street theater when she fainted onstage.
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Nicolò has asked to bring fellow stand-up comedian Stefano Rapone—not to play, but just so he too can be entertained by our inevitable destruction.
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The stand-up comedian and actor got his first big break with a 13-episode arc alongside Whitney Cummings on her self titled NBC comedy series.
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"Joker," which tells the story of a failed stand-up comedian who turns to murder in Gotham City, is ultimately about the making of a monster.
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Tidicue, who's a prolific stand-up comedian and actor, says he has about "a million ideas a day," constantly spitting them out to see what sticks.
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A former engineer and stand-up comedian, Nye has an ability to blend introductions to scientific concepts with goofy humor that made him an intergenerational favorite.
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I also was very disappointed because, as a stand-up comedian missing a few cards from the deck, I felt perfect for the role of Shaggy.
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Dallas Cowboys fan and stand-up comedian Jordan Garnett did what no superstitious sports fan should ever do — get a tattoo prematurely celebrating your team's championship.
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CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. — The stand-up comedian Maysoon Zayid likes to joke that if there were a competition called the Oppression Olympics, she would win gold.
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Finally, Ali Wong, the stand-up comedian whose Netflix special "Baby Cobra" became a breakthrough hit, has a sequel (and a new baby) on the way.
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Joaquin Phoenix gives a mesmerizing performance as Arthur Fleck, an aspiring (and terrible) stand-up comedian and clown-for-hire whose life is anything but amusing.
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Much of these adventures as a "relapse queen" I used as material on stage as stand-up comedian (as the saying goes "tragedy plus time equals comedy").
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After watching the five dancing duos perform in the second hour of the episode, it was announced that stand-up comedian Glaser, 34, and Savchenko were eliminated.
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She hosts Your Mom's House with her husband Tom Segura, who is also a stand-up comedian, as well as That's Deep Bro, which she does solo.
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It takes place in 1981 and tells the backstory of Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who finds salvation by turning to murder in Gotham City.
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But he later became a stand-up comedian himself, even taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade, doing open mic nights, and attending San Francisco Comedy College.
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The upcoming HBO series, which premieres February 19, is the semi-autobiographical tale of stand up comedian Pete Holmes, who divorced from his wife at age 28.
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"I'm focusing more on my comedy and YouTube content, and working on a new sketch series called The Chinaboy Show, with a stand-up comedian," he said.
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Like Dick Gregory, the civil-rights pioneer and stand-up comedian who also died over the weekend, Lewis will be remembered for much more than just comedy.
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Adam's definitely putting the most positive spin possible on the awful situation Leslie's facing -- but check it out ... as a stand-up comedian, he would know best.
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The stand-up comedian made headlines in 2005 when he walked away from a reported $85033 million contract with Comedy Central for his hit sketch-comedy show.
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And if you feel that way all the time, as does the young stand-up comedian played with uncompromising obnoxiousness by Beth Behrs, well, I pity you.
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To mitigate the jitters while performing in front of live audiences as a stand-up comedian, he said he often reminds himself to take a childlike approach.
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In addition to being a talented improv and stand-up comedian, he was a classically trained actor who studied at the Juilliard School and two other colleges.
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Albums that sound like this—like a stand up comedian hanging out with Mark E Smith at a disco in deepest south Yorkshire—don't storm the charts.
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As a stand-up comedian who easily bridged color lines in the turbulent 1960s, Cosby worked clean when others went blue, talking about his childhood and family.
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Winston, who works as a stand-up comedian in London, told Mashable he was at a TNT Comedy gig in Kentish Town when he stumbled across his doppelganger.
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The comedian ended his first marriage in his late 20s to chase his dream of becoming a stand-up comedian, but he ended up homeless for three years.
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But Gordon being in a coma put things into perspective for the stand-up comedian, and he realized it was time to tell his parents about his girlfriend.
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A fellow stand-up comedian in town asks me to debate him during a holiday special, but I tell him no because I'd need more time to prepare.
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Kilstein, best known as a stand-up comedian and one-half of the political podcast Citizen Radio, talks about his new record A Bit Much with childlike enthusiasm.
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Mr. Jackson, 38, a stand-up comedian who has been touring for more than a decade, has stayed in Red Roof Inns and Wyndham hotels across this land.
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Malbroux is a stand-up comedian and diversity educator whose other projects include Live Sex SF, an interactive comedy talk show touching upon (pun intended) issues of sexuality.
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The division of labor in my house was always the same: I got the Sunday puzzle, and my wife, the stand-up comedian Adrianne Tolsch, did the daily.
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Many have tried to understand the way Donald Trump's mind operates, but Daily Show host Trevor Noah thinks he's cracked it: The president is a stand-up comedian.
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Before she was all over TV representing Donald Trump and presenting laughable "alternative facts," Kellyanne Conway was Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, a Washington, D.C., pollster and apparently aspiring stand-up comedian.
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But for others like Jordan Landsman, a stand-up comedian from New York who frequently takes to Twitter to hone his trade, the app might just be a goldmine.
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The then-25-year-old LA native was angling for stage time at Hollywood's famed Laugh Factory in hopes of realizing her dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian.
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It's been 3 years since "Saw IV" was released and now the Emmy and Grammy-winning writer/stand-up comedian will add his own horror spin to the flick.
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American stand up comedian Mike Epps, who appeared in The Hangover, was captured performing with the marsupial during the Festival of Laughs comedy tour in Detroit on Friday night.
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Yoram Bauman, a climate advocate and stand-up comedian with a Ph.D in economics, is the founder of CarbonWA, an organization dedicated to passing a carbon tax in Washington.
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Stand-up comedian Jim Jefferies can't understand why his home country is so backwards when it comes to gay marriage, and yet so "super gay" ... as he puts it.
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Mr. Letterman, an unknown stand-up comedian then, appeared relaxed and confident telling jokes in a short set, then bantering in the guest chair next to Mr. Carson's desk.
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Zayid shakes all the time, though yoga has lessened the severity, and can walk but cannot stand for very long (she calls herself a sit-down stand-up comedian).
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And considering that his generic persona seems like a blend of reality TV villain and stand-up comedian, it's worth viewing his performances through the lens of arts criticism.
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The stand-up comedian Saurin Choksi started this monthly event with his childhood friend, the musician Sareen Patel, who started performing under the name Brown Privilege back in 218.
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As a teenager, when Owens was just starting to referee, he also was trying his hand as a stand-up comedian in local clubs and performing in school plays.
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Ginormous Foods is FN's newest nosh-centered roadshow, where stand-up comedian Josh Denny tours the country, like a very hungry Sherlock Holmes, and tracks down its largest eats (literally).
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A stand-up comedian, Cosby landed a breakthrough role on the 1960s TV show "I Spy," becoming a rare black actor with a leading part on a network television series.
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From Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, the show follows a New York housewife in the 1950s who – when her marriage blows up – discovers herself as a stand-up comedian.
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Yoram Bauman is a stand-up comedian with a Ph.D. in economics who wrote I-235 with a grassroots group of economists and other citizens called Carbon Washington, or CarbonWA.
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The stand-up comedian and former "Chappelle Show" star announced his membership in the "Yang Gang" earlier this month and accompanied Yang in Iowa this week ahead of the caucuses.
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Last month, he was interviewed for two hours by Joe Rogan, a stand-up comedian and mixed martial arts commentator whose podcast reaches an audience of many millions of people.
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This glasses-wearing, french fry-munching kiddo grew up to be a hilarious stand-up comedian but before that ... he displayed his book smarts attending and graduating from Georgetown University.
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Four-time Emmy winner Rock is a stand-up comedian who created and produced the TV sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris," based on his own life, which ran from 2005 to 2009.
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" Born in Detroit, Michigan, Witherspoon kicked off his career as a stand-up comedian and made his television debut in the 1970s, appearing in shows including the detective series "Barnaby Jones.
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Bo Burnham, a stand-up comedian and a product of the YouTube era, wrote and directed the film, which tells the story of an eighth grader coming to terms with herself.
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The 10-episode first season is hosted by hip-hop and pop artist Melissa Jefferson (Lizzo), "underground culture vulture" Rachael Finley (Steak) and up-and-coming stand-up comedian Myke Wright.
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Oswalt, a popular stand-up comedian, screenwriter, actor and one of Hollywood's go-to script doctors, is also a prolific Twitter user known to mine his family life for material onstage.
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Claim to fame: Mr. Kim Booster is a stand-up comedian and actor who currently stars in "Sunnyside," a sitcom created by Kal Penn about six immigrants pursuing the American dream.
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The activist candidates this year mainly come from Hanoi, the capital, and Ho Chi Minh City, the country's business hub, and include writers, lawyers, educators and even a stand-up comedian.
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Perhaps the crowning achievement of any stand-up comedian is the comedy special, the definitive recording of their jokes, style, and reception at a particular time and place in their lives.
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John Mulaney is my favorite stand-up comedian, and his scripts for "Saturday Night Live" and "Documentary Now!" are some of the best pieces of television writing that I've ever seen.
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A stand-up comedian, he has appeared in movies over the years, most recently as Glen Powell's benevolent sidekick in Set It Up. This marks his first starring role in a film.
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Born in 1949, he worked as a stand-up comedian and actor for many years, but his greatest achievement was the sitcom The Larry Sanders Show, which ran from 1992 to 1998.
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Jay worked on the SeeSo series Take My Wife, and Richardson, a stand up comedian, performs with the UCB house team The Law Firm and also appeared briefly in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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Hannibal Buress Bringing Comedy Back to FYF The stand-up comedian, 34, brought hilarity to this year's FYF on the beloved comedy stage, which has been M.I.A. from the festival since 2013.
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ANNE MCELVOY asks Ricky Gervais, an award-winning stand-up comedian and creator of "The Office", whether there are any taboos left in comedy and if it matters when people are offended.
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Midge discovers she has a knack for comedy, so she decides to trip it downtown to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian, practically unheard of for women in her day.
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The film deviates from the comics by focusing on Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who is driven insane and, thus, turns to a life of crime in 1981 Gotham City.
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The film shows how Moore went from a raunchy stand-up comedian to a producer, actor, and ringleader who brought together an unlikely group of people to create the 1975 hit Dolemite.
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Back in the day, there was a stand up comedian named George Carlin (1939-2008) who wrote a bit about oxymorons that I feel sums up this theme better than I could.
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Acclaimed stand-up comedian, writer, and actress Margaret Cho is currently on her "Fresh Off The Bloat" world tour and hosting her weekly podcast, The Margaret Cho, with her new dog Lucia.
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In a different podcast episode, Gillis uses homophobic slurs, calling director Judd Apatow and stand-up comedian Chris Gethard "white f*ggot comics" and "fucking gayer than ISIS" for their comedic style.
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The stand-up comedian joined "TMZ Live" Wednesday to talk about the long, dangerous road of addiction he's been on ever since getting busted for attempted bank robbery at 17-years-old.
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In the French presidential election campaign in 2017 Emmanuel Macron toured the Paris banlieues with Yassine Belattar, a stand-up comedian and the son of a Moroccan cleaning lady and a taxi-driver.
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Well, I think it was particularly special because there aren't a lot of opportunities [for sketch and improv performers] — you know, when you're a stand up comedian, you can do an hourlong special.
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When royjdoug tweeted a note aimed at Pokémon Go users that he actually typed up, printed out and hung in his yard, Scottish stand-up comedian Joe Heenan posted a poetic, handwritten rebuttal.
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Maloney also faces a primary challenge from first-time candidate Lauren Ashcraft, a 30-year-old project manager at JPMorgan Chase and stand-up comedian who has pledged not to take PAC money.
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Washington (CNN)Mo Amer, an Arab American stand-up comedian, received an unbelievable gift of comic material when he found himself seated next to Eric Trump on a flight to Scotland on Thursday.
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In this case, it's the premise of a South African Netflix comedy, "Catching Feelings," written and directed by and starring Kagiso Lediga, a popular stand-up comedian and television performer in his country.
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Adam was at the National Board Review Gala Wednesday night in NYC and revealed what fueled his drive to be a successful stand-up comedian ... despite crashing and burning on the Sunset Strip.
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The fake ad jumps among Ferrell — playing a "disgusting" office worker — and several "SNL" cast members, who portray a stand-up comedian and a famous actor on the red carpet of an awards show.
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I'm not a stand-up comedian, but I had a great time and I was really grateful that BET was so supportive of my vision and it was great to work with the writers.
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Jessica Chastain recently took to social media to tout Phoenix's work as Arthur Fleck, a downtrodden stand-up comedian who finds his purpose in life after committing acts of violence and becoming the Joker.
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But he also had a wild sense of humor — he began his career as a stand-up comedian — and for more than 50 years he was primarily a scene-stealing supporting player on sitcoms.
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Nyong'o, a best supporting actress Oscar winner, is Kenyan-Mexican and Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian from Iowa, "two places that nobody in Hollywood can find on a map," Nanjiani joked.
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Danila Poperechny, 25, whose success as a stand-up comedian started with his YouTube videos, has toned down overt politics, although he still mocks the government and encourages subscribers to participate in some demonstrations.
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Stand-up comedian Ken Jeong, best known for his role on NBC's Community, and as gangster Leslie Chow in The Hangover franchise, leans into his persona as Peik Lin's inappropriate father sporting an Elvis pompadour.
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The stand up comedian turned YouTube Sensation, who was ranked 21th on Forbes list of World s Top Earning YouTube Stars of 225, will be hosting a discussion called Defining a Unicorn with Lilly Singh.
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Before this nature lover had a big body of work as a stand-up comedian, he was just another happy human hanging out by the waterfront in Chicago, IL. Can you guess who he is?
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"I've been a car salesman, I've been a stand-up comedian, I've been an actress, I've been a mom, I had a production company and after this, I have something really cool coming," she said.
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Ms. Van Roy, 27, who is half Dutch and half Belgian, started her career as a model and then became a stand-up comedian before turning to film acting, which had been a lifelong dream.
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He became a staple on non-political podcasts, including an almost two-hour long podcast with controversial stand-up comedian and TV personality Joe Rogan, where his campaign says he first gained a national following.
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In the film, Nanjiani (who plays himself) is an aspiring stand-up comedian in Chicago, while Gordon (played by Zoe Kazan, and renamed "Emily Gardner") is a grad school student who attends one of his shows.
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"It is profoundly shocking that young women's lives can be taken with such breathtaking ease and with no justice, no redress for them," the British-Pakistani journalist and stand-up comedian told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"I talk a lot about queerness in my comedy, trying to debunk myths and stereotypes people may have about me," 32-year-old bisexual poet and stand-up comedian Stephanie Chan told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"If you sat next to Chris on an airplane and asked him what he did for a living, he would say he was a stand-up comedian," said his manager, Alex Murray, of Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
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Throughout the next three hours, Gareth would be part college professor, part stand-up comedian and full-time wedding photographer who insisted he knew how to capture the best angles, taking multiple shots to be sure.
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Clara Pluton, a stand-up comedian in Seattle who pays the bills by waiting tables, hosts a radio show with Val Nigro, who also does comedy, every other Tuesday night on Hollow Earth Radio, KHUH 104.9.
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But by the end of the day, anger had risen over Gillis's hiring, especially after a video made the rounds on Twitter of the stand-up comedian making racist statements and using slurs about Chinese people.
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"I talk a lot about queerness in my comedy, trying to debunk myths and stereotypes people may have about me," 32-year-old bisexual poet and stand-up comedian Stephanie Chan told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The stand-up comedian, mixed martial arts commentator and podcast host Joe Rogan Senator Elizabeth Warren has drawn support from her home state of Massachusetts, fellow members of Congress, celebrities and liberal leaning grass-roots organizations.
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On its Facebook page, The Comedy Store praised Sammy Shore as a "legendary stand-up comedian," noting, "It would probably be easier to list those for whom he did not open for" rather than those he did.
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You might be a passionate stand-up comedian, for example, but whether you emphasize or minimize that has a lot to do with how you want to be perceived and whether it's an asset or a liability.
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Most recently, the actress earned an Emmy nomination for best actress in a comedy for her hilarious portrayal of Miriam 'Midge' Maisel, a 1950s housewife turned stand-up comedian, on Amazon's hit show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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Directed and co-written by Phillips, Joker puts a new, R-rated spin on the classic Batman villain and stars Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill failed stand-up comedian who unleashes havoc on Gotham City.
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Stand-up comedian Shane Gillis was cast before the season to join them, but he was fired just four days after the announcement of his hiring due to derogatory remarks he made on a podcast last year.
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But while we wait out Yara's triumphant return (imagine a vengeful Theon (Alfie Allen) breaking her out and saving the day?) let's talk about Whelan's off-screen career roots — he actress used to be a stand-up comedian.
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Trevor Noah: When I see Trump, I see a stand-up comedian But judging by how yuge-ly they are selling it, perspective visitors probably shouldn't get their hopes up that it will be like traditional presidential libraries.
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Stand-up comedian Aaron Glaser sued comedy writer Jasmine Pierce for defamation, demanding $38 million, because she called him a "rapist" on social media last year after multiple women privately told a comedy club that he assaulted them.
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In The King of Comedy, De Niro is Rupert Pupkin, a lousy but eternally optimistic stand-up comedian obsessed with late-night comedy host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) and deluded about his chances of getting on Langford's show.
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She's a scene-stealer in Crazy Rich Asians, in which she co-stars with an all-star cast that includes Fresh Off The Boat's Constance Wu, stand-up comedian Ken Jeong, and martial arts movie legend Michelle Yeoh.
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Maisel where Susie Meyerson (Alex Borstein), the manager of the titular stand-up comedian Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), attempts to shoulder her way into the Friars Club, a real-life private club for the highest echelon of comics.
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Unlike Cosby's first sexual assault trial — which ended in a mistrial last year after a tied jury failed to reach a verdict — the judge is allowing five accusers to testify against the TV star and stand-up comedian.
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"It is very simple, I want to give Afghans a reason to smile," said Karim Asir, a stand-up comedian who performs across the capital Kabul in Chaplin's trademark oversized shoes, baggy pants, cane and black bowler hat.
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There's a lot to him: He grew up in gritty Southeast DC, went to college for journalism, was a stand-up comedian for a while, and is the family tax preparer, mechanic, and level-headed voice of reason.
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I was kind of influenced in a way by the stand-up comedian Steven Brody Stevens, which is essentially, it's just this circular thing where you're talking about yourself endlessly to the point where it just becomes nonsensical.
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He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, performed in summer stock (but did not enjoy acting) and began working in the late 1940s as a stand-up comedian with a talent for doing impressions.
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In truth, your professional life won't really even begin until that happens, and you start using that experience in your writing and your comedy; it will be what puts you on another level as a stand up comedian.
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"We thought it'd be really interesting to see a very interesting, but long and technical document, read out by a drag queen or a dancer or an acrobat or a stand-up comedian," said the show's creator, Patrick Dunne.
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MTV announced Thursday that the Girls Trip and Carmichael Show actress, stand-up comedian, and New York Times best-selling author of The Last Black Unicorn will emcee the summer ceremony, taking the reins from 2017 host Adam DeVine.
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Stand-up comedian Lord Buckley was dragged off stage at a club by plainclothes officers and had his card suspended in 1960 because he had neglected to inform the police of two minor arrests during his cabaret card application.
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Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a struggling and depressed stand-up comedian and amateur clown living in Gotham City, the film promises to be a gritty origin story of one of the most iconic DC Comics villains ever.
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Anthony Belcher Jr. — also known as DoBoy from Nick Cannon&aposs long-running comedy show, "Wild &aposN Out" — took a gamble on his podcast "Righteous and Ratchet," which he cohosts with fellow stand-up comedian and entrepreneur Kevin Fredericks.
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On a silver-gray Sunday morning, Ms. Haddish, the irrepressible star of the movie "Girls Trip" and an audacious stand-up comedian ("She Ready"), had click-clacked into the back entrance of the International Culinary Center in downtown Manhattan.
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After an electrifying opening performance from K-pop boy band BTS, vocalists dominated the second round of eliminations, with stand-up comedian Vicki Barbolak being the only non-singing act on Wednesday to advance to next week's live show finals.
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Stand-up comedian and star of MTV's show Girl Code Carly Aquilino appeared to share her first reaction to her former boyfriend's engagement to Ariana Grande on her Instagram story earlier this week, via a screenshot text conversation with a pal.
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The Incredible Jessica James is ostensibly a romantic comedy, loosely centered on a nascent relationship between its titular star, played by stand-up comedian and former The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams, and a recent divorcee played by Chris O'Dowd.
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Billy Crystal Comedian and longtime friend Billy Crystal said the first time he met the Champ was in 1974, when he was just getting started as a stand-up comedian and was asked to perform at an event honoring Ali.
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"We all want to live in a polite society, we just kind of have to work on the levels of coming to an agreement of what that actually looks like," the stand-up comedian and former "Chappelle Show" star continued.
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Carl Joshua Ncube (Zimbabwe) Breaking the Guinness world record for most comedy shows in one week, Zimbabwean stand up comedian, Ncube uses his stage to draw attention to culturally taboo topics on the African continent especially jokes about religion and politics.
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And as the star of HBO's Crashing, Holmes—along with co-writer Oren Brimer and executive producer Judd Apatow—is looking to soothe an even larger audience while staying true to the realities of struggling as a stand-up comedian.
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Other fan favorites who performed on the premiere were: sword swallower Alexandr Magala, dance crew Justice Crew, stand-up comedian Vicki Barbolak, mentalist duo The Clairvoyants, contortionist Sofie Dossi, dog act Sara and Hero, acrobat Uzeyer Novruzov, and singer Bianca Ryan.
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Kevin Hart, on the other hand, may have "gotten away" with his tweets had he still been an edgy stand-up comedian with a filmography of supporting roles instead of an A-list movie star with a mainstream cred to uphold.
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Metacritic Score: 59/100Joaquin Phoenix stars as Arther Fleck, a clown and aspiring stand-up comedian who has taken one too many punches from society, resulting in his gradual deterioration into one of the greatest villains in DC comic book lore.
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See, Kondabolu is also a tremendously funny stand-up comedian, someone who tells jokes about racism and the divisiveness of American politics, all the while making you laugh at the way many of us have only built up those divides.
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In the impeccably realized world of 1958 New York City, "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) plays the role of dutiful housewife until her husband leaves her and she reinvents herself as a stand-up comedian at a Greenwich Village comedy club.
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Just think about how many hoops players are getting involved in film and television: LeBron James has his name on more than a dozen projects himself; Kyrie Irving starred in "Uncle Drew" last year; Blake Griffin is a stand-up comedian.
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Audiobooks THE AWKWARD THOUGHTS OF W. KAMAU BELL Tales of a 6′4″, African-American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian Written and read by W. Kamau Bell 10½ hours.
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Nash is also a stand-up comedian who has worked with Norm McDonald, Adam Sandler, and Will Ferrell, and he has just finished a tour around the US. But his videos are much slower paced than Dobrik&aposs action-packed ones.
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His raunchy jokes and random factoids about various musicians and their lyrics as well as his unique dance moves on and off the bike made spinning with Bernie feel more like you were watching a stand-up comedian perform than exercising.
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My 1988 novel "This Is Your Life" was adapted for a feature film; it became "This Is My Life," the first film Nora Ephron directed, co-written by Nora and Delia Ephron, and starring Julie Kavner as a stand-up comedian.
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We can't recall the King ever dropping even a single 4-letter word on camera, but this time on the mic he let loose -- working the stage like a stand-up comedian -- even though kids, including his own, were watching.
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No. You are someone who became famous on YouTube, you are a stand-up comedian, then you have, at the age of 26, 27, made an indie movie about an eighth-grade girl and did not put yourself in it. Yes.
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Rock, a black stand-up comedian and former "Saturday Night Live" cast member, was chosen to host Sunday's Academy Awards for a second time last October - long before the #OscarsSoWhite furor that has overshadowed the biggest annual celebration of the movie industry.
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It's partly because I'm a stand-up comedian but also because, from the sociopathic mass-capitalism on display at malls to a Blundstone-infested, self-serving, upper-class farmers market, all I see is a society gleefully jerking itself off into oblivion.
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Written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) is a struggling stand-up comedian in Chicago who has hidden his interest in a non-Muslim woman from his Pakistani immigrant parents, Sharmeen and Azmat (Zenobia Shroff and Anupam Kher).
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And that's just the starting point for Nina (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a New York stand-up comedian who caps her raunch-riddled, take-no-prisoners routines with stress vomiting, anonymous sex and getting knocked around by the married cop (Chace Crawford) she's seeing.
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To Yoram Bauman, a stand-up comedian with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington, the combination of a freeze on coal export terminals and a carbon tax amounts to an attack on climate change from both sides of the market.
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While some people may see nothing funny about Manhattan real estate, Ms. Fearon, who is both a sales agent for the Corcoran Group and a stand-up comedian, seems to seamlessly combine two careers that she says complement each other remarkably well.
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MOSCOW, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A popular stand-up comedian has temporarily left Russia for security reasons after police opened an investigation into one of his performances in which he cracked crude jokes about Jesus and the Orthodox Church, his lawyer said on Thursday.
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Among those expected to take the stand during the trial are Randy Credico, the stand-up comedian; Steve Bannon, the former White House adviser; Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign deputy chairman; and Andrew Miller, a former marijuana farmer and employee of Stone's.
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Guests include Emmy-nominated comedian Mike Lawrence, award-winning stand-up comedian Lane Moore, technology YouTuber Austin Evans, actor/comedian Moses Storm, BuzzFeed's Executive Creative Producer Summer Anne Burton, co-host of truTV's Almost Genius Chris Fairbanks and Austin-based comedian Maggie Maye.
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The stand-up comedian was announced as a new featured player along with Fineman and Yang for the new season earlier this month, but was fired just four days later for resurfaced derogatory statements that he made on a podcast last year.
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The feckless heroes here are Alex (the stand-up comedian Phil Hanley), a wedding videographer, and his buddy Justin (Luke Lalonde, the frontman for the Canadian band Born Ruffians, in an assured film debut), a telephone-sales rep living with his grandmother.
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He had been working as a stand-up comedian; participating in rogue pop-ups (like the Night Heron Speakeasy, a sort-of bar that ran for seven weeks in an abandoned water tower in Chelsea) and hoping to do the same in San Francisco.
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They include "A Horse Walks into A Bar", about a fictional stand-up comedian and the ghosts of his past, and "To the End of the Land", a novel depicting a soldier's mother trekking across Israel to avoid hearing possible news of his death.
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DeGeneres, 60, began her career in the 1980s as a stand-up comedian in her home town of New Orleans before launching her comedy show "Ellen," in which her character in 1997 came out as gay and became the first openly lesbian character on television.
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" Tammy Pescatelli, a stand-up comedian, expressed her support for one of the woman who described her run-in with Louis C.K.: Marc Maron, a fellow comedian with a popular podcast, wrote on Twitter: "I've been friends with Louis CK for a long time.
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As Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who lives with his mother, Joaquin Phoenix more or less slaps clown makeup on Travis Bickle from "Taxi Driver," though the director Todd Phillips lays some of the blame for Fleck's psychosis on a broken social system.
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In The King of Comedy, De Niro plays an aspiring but untalented stand-up comedian named Rupert Pupkin who idolizes a late-night TV host, scheming and dreaming of being put on his show, and eventually kidnaps him in order to make it happen.
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Maybe a romantic comedy, or he'd love to play a stand-up comedian, or maybe remake Martin Scorsese's 1982 movie The King of Comedy — just something to cleanse his palate after he emerges from completing the final season of Luther, which doesn't have a premiere date yet.
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The Jewish stand-up comedian who turned a drunken screed against her cheating husband into a budding career in comedy and the mole woman who's intent on making the most of a world she was deprived of for 15 years both anchor shows that are fundamentally optimistic.
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As the South African stand-up comedian approaches his first anniversary on September 28 as the new face of the Comedy Central institution, we decided it was the perfect time to take a peek behind-the-scenes and see how he is settling into his new digs.
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Martin Lawrence's 1992 sitcom Martin was one of the most acclaimed shows of the '90s — running for five seasons on Fox, thrusting stand-up comedian Lawrence and actors Tisha Campbell-Martin and Tichina Arnold into stardom and landing its popular phrase "Damn, Gina!" in the cultural lexicon.
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Night Out On a recent evening, Craig Robinson, the actor and stand-up comedian known from the TV show "The Office" and the movies "Hot Tub Time Machine" and "Knocked Up," sat in Zum Schneider, a Bavarian beer garden in the East Village, practicing his German.
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This Mr. Jones is a 32-year-old stand-up comedian who, after receiving a diagnosis of Stage 4 mesothelioma cancer last July and given a year to live, received some help from friends who wanted him to star in a special and began a Kickstarter campaign.
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Most people know him as the host of AMC's "Talking Dead," which has 6.5 million viewers each week, but on this March day the stand-up comedian, podcast pioneer and digital media entrepreneur was devoting a 16-hour stint to the geekier outposts of his empire.
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The Maybe Capital Board Game launched this week on Kickstarter, and its launch is being supported by former CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, who, as a former stand-up comedian and contributor to the aforementioned TV show, definitely gets the funny side of the tech industry.
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In April of 2016, the Solutions Project was able to support the activist work of the Indigenous Environmental Network when one of the organization's members, stand-up comedian Dallas Goldtooth, called on them to help convene Native leaders and Environmental Justice organizers to prepare for pipeline fights.
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Mulaney, the stand-up comedian and former Saturday Night Live writer who has made four comedy specials with Netflix, including his latest "John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch," recently told The New York Times about his Sunday routine, which includes stopping at Whole Foods to buy dinner.
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Mr. Pharoah stars as Floyd Mooney, a stand-up comedian we're told is very funny, though the show does not include any meaningful portions of his act, and the show's claim that Floyd's excellent Denzel Washington impression makes him sexually enticing to women seems like a stretch.
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As a stand-up comedian, Schumer often parodies the notion that she has an abundance of confidence and skewers beauty standards for women — this film doubles down on those ideas showcasing how one woman is empowered to live life fearlessly when the only thing that changes is her mindset.
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On the other end of the line, in LA, is Richard Lewis, the 70-year-old stand-up comedian, and actor who, since 2000, has been appearing alongside Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm as David's long-suffering best friend, a role he also plays in real life.
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Feraz Shere, a 33-year-old comic who specializes in impressions, did spot-on caricatures of both President Obama — whom he tweaked as having to weigh in on toothpaste rather than nuclear issues after leaving office — and of Mr. Trump, whom he portrayed as a stand-up comedian.
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" Long after the film version of "Jurassic Park" graphically cemented the "not a good idea" side as the winner, Helen Pilcher, a cell biologist, science journalist and erstwhile stand-up comedian, tries to rehabilitate the "good idea" in "Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-Extinction.
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For this odd job, you are on the third door of an unmarked of office building in Long Island City, with a stand-up comedian you know through a friend of a friend and the producer who brought you both here, with her laptop open, asking you to brainstorm penis jokes.
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"An Irish stand up-comedian and television presenter, Dara Ó Briain passed away early hours of this morning after the vehicle he was travelling with fell into a ravine along the Patrick Street in Dublin city centre after colliding with a government vehicle," reads the first paragraph of the story.
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But not everyone was convinced and now stand-up comedian Cyril Dabs has come out with an Indian version of Apple's original AirPods ad and it's real AF. The lyrics are in Marathi, a regional Indian language, and the guy breaks out into a slang when his AirPods magically go missing.
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TV's Krystal Ball says Ocasio-Cortez has become a force in Democratic Party Omar tweets clip of anti-war George Carlin routine MORE (D-Minn.) tweeted a clip of legendary stand-up comedian George Carlin criticizing American foreign policy in the Middle East as tensions ramp up now between the U.S. and Iran.
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In addition to his work as an editor, art and music columnist, essayist, and poet, Mr. O'Brien was a television host (of the punk-era public access show "TV Party"), a stand-up comedian (once opening for David Johansen's Buster Poindexter act), and screenwriter (his "Downtown 81" had its premiere at Cannes).
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Though the two were never very public about their romance, the stand-up comedian and star of MTV's show Girl Code appeared to share her reaction to her former boyfriend's engagement to Ariana Grande on her Instagram story when the news broke last year, posting a screenshot of a text conversation with a friend.
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But all it would take is one UFC fighter giving voice to his lifelong dream of being a hip-hop MC or a stand-up comedian and this whole experiment in the mainstreaming of mixed martial arts could explode in all of our faces, sending our sport back into the shadows of shame and infamy.
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Bauman, who now is a PhD economist and stand-up comedian (more on that later; and, yes, he does jokes on the Laffer curve), is the force behind a proposal on the ballot this fall in Washington state that would turn this old, elegant concept into what could be the country's smartest climate change policy.
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In an outrageous riff on geek entitlement, the stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt fantasized in his 2007 album, "Werewolves and Lollipops," about using a time machine — not to find out who Jack the Ripper was or to stop the Kennedy assassination but to kill Lucas with a shovel, preventing him from making the prequels.
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This installment will include the stand-up comedian, musician and author Dave Hill; the stand-up Mark Normand, whose first hourlong special will debut on Comedy Central this year; the animation-heavy sketch duo Cartoon Monsoon, made up of Joe Rumrill and Mary Houlihan; and the comedians Emmy Blotnick, Tommy McNamara and Amy Zimmer.
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