As a young stand up comic I opened for Natalie Cole.
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Your son and fellow stand up comic, Love, Pauly#thecomedystore pic.twitter.
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A stand-up comic friend told me there was an opening.
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She is also a stand-up comic and writer in New York.
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Corinne, a stand-up comic, finds herself pregnant by her second husband.
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Her Instagram presence reads more like a blogger than a stand up comic.
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"Rosalind Franklin's Revenge" will be hosted by the stand-up comic Jacqueline Novak.
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As a stand-up comic, it's Mike Brown's job to make other people laugh.
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She subsequently prospered as a touring stand-up comic in vaudeville houses and nightclubs.
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I'm a stand-up comic, so the shame was only something I could use.
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The stand-up comic, who recently married fellow stand-up comic Rhea Butcher, hosts BuzzFeed's "Ask a Lesbian," where she answers questions that viewers would like to ask a lesbian to sexual questions to how her parents reacted when she came out.
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"The sitcom has always been the goal, especially as a stand-up comic," Howery said.
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For a stand-up comic who does an hour all the time, that's not crazy.
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He's commander in chief, not a stand-up comic," Ramsey said on CNN's "New Day.
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Amazon focused an entire show on a female stand-up comic with The Marvelous Mrs.
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Days later, Mahima Kukreja, a poet and stand-up comic, shared her story — and Twitter listened.
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" - Mike, 36"Didn't know what a meme was" - Eve, 23 "Broke and bitter stand-up comic.
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As the author recently told The Times, she once thought of becoming a stand-up comic.
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Mr. Gregory is both an immensely important stand-up comic and a prominent civil rights activist.
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Mr. Normand, 33, originally from New Orleans, found his career as a stand-up comic blossoming.
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The stand-up comic now owns the property after Mitzi transferred it to him before she died.
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"My specific issues are not the mainstream," says New York City-based stand-up comic Jon Fisch.
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Mr. Kolstad, a classically trained Norwegian pianist and stand-up comic, does a similar thing in Oslo.
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When Stormy Daniels announced her first gig as a stand-up comic in March, some comedians recoiled.
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Mr. Witherspoon started out as a stand-up comic at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in 1974.
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And as a stand-up comic, it's a dangerous position to be in because I like pushing buttons.
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He has given us the gold standard of snark, rants and monologues a stand-up comic could envy.
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Maher ably fills several roles on his show, "Real Time": stand-up comic, interviewer, panel host and essayist.
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The stand-up comic Michelle Wolf takes on the risky role of hosting the White House Correspondents' dinner.
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Like a stand-up comic deprived of a mic for a year, she seemed compelled to entertain nonstop.
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Jesse Joyce, a stand-up comic, has written jokes for 10 Comedy Central roasts, including the 2011 Trump roast.
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As a stand-up comic, I've worked rooms all over the Midwest, in cities from Des Moines to Indianapolis.
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It's a guy who happens to be a stand-up comic blathering with his friend, Matt McCusker, who also happens to be a stand-up comic, as they sit in front of microphones gratuitously spewing epithets and making lazy "jokes" about other races, sexual orientations and gender without any real context or substance.
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Rivera opened his speech with a line that indicated he could have a second career as a stand-up comic.
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Patrick Tomlinson is an author, stand up comic and regular contributor to the Hill on state, local and national politics.
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But Chieng, a stand up comic who spent several seasons on "The Daily Show," said he disagrees with that framing.
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Am I missing something?" said Orny Adams, a stand-up comic who appeared with Jerry Seinfeld in the documentary "Comedian.
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With her new political variety show, "I Love You, America," the stand-up comic aims to unite red and blue.
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BUENOS AIRES — The Argentine stand-up comic Malena Pichot has a bit where she excoriates those who oppose legalizing abortion.
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Mr. Greenbaum is a stand-up comic and magician whose routine combines both of his talents into one creative show.
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"If someone wants to be called a certain name, why not respect them?" the transgender stand-up comic Julia Scotti said.
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Other Space was created by Paul Feig, a former stand-up comic and the writer-director of Spy and Ghostbusters (2016).
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Liza Dye is a stand-up comic in Los Angeles who frequently makes jokes about "The L Word" in her sets.
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Donald Glover has spent the past few years racking up accolades as a writer, producer, director, rapper and stand-up comic.
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Maisel drops today on Amazon Prime, giving us a look at the life of a 1950s housewife turned stand-up comic.
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The blog, which features posters of headless women alongside entertaining, completely frustrated commentary, was started by stand-up comic Marcia Belsky.
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The stand-up comic Gilbert Gottfried has built a highly respected career telling profane, even shocking jokes in a sandpaper voice.
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Even before Hart stepped down, the stand-up comic Rhea Butcher raised her hand and showed off her Oscar-worthy wardrobe.
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The friend, Vivicca Whitsett, a compliance administrator at a brokerage firm in Los Angeles and a stand-up comic, was game.
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He soon realized he wanted to be a stand-up comic but found he could not make a career of it.
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Mr. Dean, a stand-up comic with a taste for the absurd, presents this comedic art project about his own work.
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Comedy Mr. Greenbaum is a stand-up comic and magician whose routine combines both of his talents into one creative show.
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The only reason I know about this book is a direct message on Twitter from the stand-up comic Anthony Jeselnik.
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She talks about how she bombed out as a stand-up comic and went to work in tech as her fallback.
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She is an ex-Googler who became a stand-up comic and a comedian and a blogger, a comedy blogger. Right?
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Jón Gnarr, a stand-up comic and former punk-rocker, served as mayor of Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, from 2009 to 20113.
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Brosnahan won a 2018 Golden Globe for her performance as Midge, a 1950s housewife who decides to become a stand-up comic.
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For years, Oakland-based stand-up comic Stroy Moyd has been driving for Uber and Lyft part-time to generate supplemental income.
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As a stand-up comic, he led with his neuroses, telling dark and cuttingly self-deprecating jokes in between wide, needy grins.
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Mr. Shandling played a stand-up comic who constantly interrupted scenes by talking to the audience about being in his own show.
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Yet this surprise hit finds the stand-up comic starring front-and-center, conjuring his best Charlie Wilson impression for maximum joy.
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It was written and directed by Bo Burnham, a stand-up comic who started out by posting videos of himself on YouTube.
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Much of the world knows Ellen DeGeneres as the gift-giving daytime talk-show host Ellen — not the stand-up comic Ellen.
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Popular Indian stand-up comic Vir Das, who recently debuted on a Netflix special, left the audience at the Conan show in splits.
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Thirty-something, hirsute, in slack shape, he looks and acts the part of sleazoid voyeur, stand-up comic, psychopath and self-martyred saint.
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First as an insurance agent and marketer, later as a published novelist, and most recently as a stand-up comic and political columnist.
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Jack Whitehall, best known as a stand-up comic, has the restraints on for his droll portrayal of Paul Pennyfeather, the story's protagonist.
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This year, Michelle Wolf, a stand-up comic and frequent contributor to "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah," will be the featured comedian.
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On Monday's episode of the talk show, the host will give the stand-up comic the surprise of a lifetime – his own HBO special!
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THR reports:Sources say Rock has secured a whopping $40 million for the specials, which sets a new high mark for a stand-up comic.
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In addition, they competed against stand-up comic Taylor Williamson, comedian/magician Piff the Magic Dragon, juggler Viktor Lee and dance group Light Balance.
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"I will commit myself to becoming a stand-up comic," he wrote in 1977, at the beginning of his transition from writer to performer.
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I still laugh when I remember a stand-up comic there and a joke he told, in perfectly poor taste, about an unsatisfied wife.
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It was actually a prayer cloth she'd ordered once from a televangelist who was a dead ringer for BubbleWrap, the famous stand-up comic.
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Colmes, a Brooklyn-born grandson of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, worked in radio and as a stand-up comic before Fox News recruited him.
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If you told me five years ago that I'd be playing a stand-up [comic] on television I would have told you to sit down.
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He toured the country as a stand-up comic and starred and produced the HBO series "Crashing," which was canceled this year after three seasons.
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"I left my day job to continue writing, which has been very lucrative," deadpanned Dan Wilbur, a 29-year-old writer and stand-up comic.
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The great stand-up comic George Carlin famously said that it's the duty of the comedian to find the line and then cross it deliberately.
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NeNe Leakes is no stand-up comic ... she's also no singer, although she got the chance of a lifetime singing with his awesomeness, Smokey Robinson.
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Mr. Colmes, a Brooklyn-born grandson of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, worked in radio and as a stand-up comic before Fox News recruited him.
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Tiffany Haddish had no idea Kevin Hart would go from her "comedy guardian angel" to her movie costar when she was a struggling stand-up comic.
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Were he not a politician, it has been said, he could have been a televangelist; he might also have made it as a stand-up comic.
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Barr burst onto the scene as a stand-up comic in the 1980s, landing a coveted spot on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1985.
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The stand-up comic Ali Wong and the "Fresh Off the Boat" lead Randall Park cooked up this romantic comedy, which the pair also star in.
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A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night… but finds the joke always seems to be on him.
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"Born Standing Up," Steve Martin One of the best accounts ever written about the art of stand-up and the life of the stand-up comic.
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Gautier started his career working as a stand-up comic and he went on to star as Conrad Birdie in the hit 1960 musical Bye, Bye Birdie.
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"If you told me five years ago that I'd be playing a stand-up [comic] on television I would have told you to sit down," she said.
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Hari Kondabolu, a stand-up comic in New York, said that Mr. Trump reinforced his "hateful, negative" rhetoric with humor, and that that's what made it effective.
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And with stand-up comedy bigger than ever in 2018, they're important: In troubled times, the stand-up comic is equal parts judge, priest, and police officer.
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A quiet, cinéma-vérité documentary shot with a solitary film camera isn't the kind of project one would expect from a stand-up comic like Jerrod Carmichael.
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Sarah Silverman One of the most striking sound bites of the whole convention came in an ad lib from Silverman, the stand-up comic and Sanders supporter.
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Don Rickles, a stand-up comic for more than half a century, made outrageously derisive comments about people's looks, ethnicity or anything else he could think of.
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This month's guest comedians include the stand-up comic and SiriusXM host Dan Soder, the comic and sitcom writer Naomi Ekperigin, and the memoirist Amy Rose Spiegel.
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While much attention is paid to audience chortles, the laughter of the stand-up comic remains underexamined, despite being a critical part of the performer's tool set.
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Following in the footsteps of shows like "Seinfeld" and "Mulaney," this big-hearted comedy series features the stand-up comic Pete Holmes playing a version of himself.
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Phillips's upcoming film is set in 1980s New York, back when the Joker was a struggling stand-up comic, before he turned to a life of crime.
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Yet Howery, 38, who had been building his career as a successful stand-up comic and a working television actor since his early twenties, didn't take Peele seriously.
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Mr. Brennan, a writer and stand-up comic, uses one mike to deliver an assortment of one-liners, as if trying them out for future comedy club use.
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When he began broadcasting from this space in the Highland Park neighborhood here in 2009, Mr. Maron was a struggling stand-up comic experimenting with a niche form.
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The show is about a Jewish woman in the Upper West Side in 1958 New York who decides to become a stand up comic after her marriage falls apart.
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Beppe Severgnini ROME — The Five Star Movement, founded by the stand-up comic Beppe Grillo, did well in the election of a new governor of Sicily on Nov. 230.
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Don Rickles, the acidic stand-up comic who became world-famous not by telling jokes but by insulting his audience, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles.
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Donald Trump is a human meme generator; he is a content Pez dispenser; he is a generous stand-up comic who crafts a setup so perfect, the punchlines write themselves.
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In New York, where he lived and worked as a stand-up comic, he had a near-fatal asthma attack and was treated for a week at Bellevue Hospital Center.
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At 34, he is no longer the stand-up comic joking about his young pudgy cousin Harris (who plays his grown-up and quite buff cousin in the second season).
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The actress and stand-up comic, 35, has nabbed the No. 4 spot on Forbes' annual ranking of highest-paid comedians – making her the first women to ever crack the list.
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Richards is a stand-up comic who has appeared on CBS' 2 Broke Girls, Nickelodeon's School of Rock and was a voice-over host for game show Trivial Takedown on FUSE.
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"I think right now people see the guy on the big screen, the stand-up comic and the personality, which is not fake in any way, shape or form," he said.
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You could either be a touring stand-up comic, and that meant you're playing at the Comedy Hole, the Laugh Pit, whatever the name of the thing is in Des Moines, Iowa.
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The film resonated as an unconventional romantic comedy, and as a portrait of Nanjiani's specific struggles as a Pakistani immigrant turned stand-up comic, earning $55.3 million worldwide and considerable awards buzz.
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Fans in the audience heckled Musk as they would a stand-up comic, and he bantered with them about where to build a supercharger next, (Saskatchewan, and Kazakhstan were mentioned) and more.
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Sure, I did start as a stand-up comic because I was training to be an actor and I didn't want to wait around for the phone to ring the whole time.
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The stand-up comic Ramy Youssef takes on the challenge to make modern Muslim culture less misunderstood and more humorous in his new Hulu series "Ramy," a critic's pick for the week.
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Dads like me benefit from low expectations, one of many of the resonant premises sharply exploited by the stand-up comic Ali Wong in "Baby Cobra," her hit Netflix special last year.
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It was O'Brien's first job as a late-night host, and he had gotten there in an unorthodox way: He'd been a writer on TV shows, but never a stand-up comic.
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For this show, she is joined by the author, comedian and musician Dave Hill; the stand-up comic Jena Friedman; the writer Michael Arceneaux; and the actress, comedian and writer Anna Drezen.
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Early and Berlant had two of the strongest episodes in the series, creating near-iconic characters, from Early's denim-wearing suburban stand-up comic, to Berlant's pitch-perfect riff on artist Marina Abramovic.
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Speaking with the cadences of a stand-up comic, he recalled how a 36-year-old Australian missionary was taken hostage, raped and murdered, and how he reacted when he saw her body.
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The script, based on a true story that happened to stand-up comic and "Silicon Valley" star Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, producer/writer Emily Gordon, was written by the husband-wife duo.
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Always Be My Maybe star and stand-up comic Ali Wong has written Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life, a book addressed to her two young daughters.
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Her success as a stand-up comic led to her own sitcom, the Seinfeld-esque Ellen (originally called These Friends of Mine, which was changed after the first season to avoid confusion with Friends).
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The titular hero of "I, Daniel Blake" (played by Dave Johns, a stand-up comic) is a 60-ish widower who worked as a carpenter in Newcastle for decades before suffering a heart attack.
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Far too often, a stand-up comic voice jarringly interrupts the melancholy drama, whether through jargon ("I bombed") or in the distinctive cadences spoken by one of the many comics cast in the show.
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But when her life takes a surprise turn, she has to quickly decide what else she's good at — and going from housewife to stand-up comic is a wild choice to everyone but her.
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Another facet is that unlike late-night hosts that followed him -- Letterman and Jay Leno foremost among them -- Carson wasn't a stand-up comic by trade and harbored no insecurities about showcasing their talents.
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But when her life takes a surprise turn, she has to quickly decide what else she's good at — and going from housewife to stand-up comic is a wild choice to everyone but her.
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" Added stand-up comic W. Kamau Bell, "Once again, Mike Pence is the walking embodiment of the saying, 'Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
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Like, the same way a stand-up comic comes up with a joke: They think of a funny premise, and they think of a bunch of punchlines, and they think of a bunch of tags.
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By the Book The stand-up comic and author of "I'm Just a Person" says if she could require the president to read one book, it would be "I'm Just a Person," by Tig Notaro.
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Among the "Showgasm" regulars in the XXL event are the absurdist stand-up comic Kate Berlant, the downtown character comedian Cole Escola, the humorist Isaac Oliver and the comedy dance act Cocoon Central Dance Team.
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In the last 15 years or so, there have been a lot of comedies about comedy — shows that dig into the lonely life of the stand-up comic, or the peculiarities of the comedy club.
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Earlier this year, the African-American stand-up comic Mo'Nique called for a boycott of Netflix, accusing the streaming service of discriminating against black female comedians by paying less for their specials than their peers'.
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Indeed, Joaquin Phoenix was crowned Best Actor (drama) for playing Batman's arch-enemy in "Joker", reimagined in Todd Phillips's origin myth as an aspiring stand-up comic who dreams of appearing on a talk show.
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NEW YORK – Ashley Blaker has spent the past two decades working in the entertainment industry, producing some of his native England&aposs top TV programs -- but the stand-up comic doesn&apost own a television set.
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Dharam is a stand-up comic from Delhi who finds success talking about his love life in a Paris club, and Shyra plays guide to clueless Indian tourists who are visiting France for the first time.
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The Run-Up By any measure, Arsenio Hall was a Hollywood success: He had starred in popular films, packed houses as a stand-up comic and hosted a hit late-night television show bearing his name.
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Tom and Mary-Louise -- there to talk about transcendental meditation and how it can help veterans suffering from PTSD -- did what they could: Tom took the stand-up comic route while Mary played the role of nurse.
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On Comedy In his ruthlessly funny new special, "Fire in the Maternity Ward," which debuts on Netflix on Tuesday, the stand-up comic Anthony Jeselnik muses nostalgically that you never forget the first time you had sex.
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Haddish is a stand-up comic at heart, so it's not surprising that much of the speech was filled with jokes and jabs as she adjusted her dress and made offhand comments, all with a drink in hand.
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No figure in popular culture has exploited this freedom more than the great stand-up comic Louis C.K., who made an inexpensive show for FX on the condition that he encounter no interference in casting, script or direction.
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My husband, a stand-up comic, used to do a bit about a Comcast commercial in which a woman goes on a date with a little green alien; at the time, interracial human couples were taboo in advertising.
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On Comedy In November 2017, the stand-up comic Nacho Redondo told a joke at a university about the Paralympics that upset some audience members and drew controversy online, which he promptly used to promote his next shows.
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Mr. Jefferies, a comedian and actor, first made his mark in America with the FX (later FXX) sitcom "Legit," in which he played a struggling stand-up comic with a big mouth and addictions to drugs and sex.
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Fresh off her win in the category last year (Veep wasn't airing), Rachel Brosnahan has been honored once again for her smart and snappy performance as Midge, the 1950s housewife turned stand-up comic in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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Bobby Bones is known for his success as a radio host, stand-up comic and, most recently, his upcoming role as mentor on American Idol — but he really wants fans to know how much of a failure he is.
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Stuffing his face with food on his way to the mic, the stand-up comic, 34, proceeded to give an unconventional speech ("It was literally me saying, 'Words mean nothing, but thank you,' " he recalls) with his mouth full.
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Shortly before Ms. Klobuchar declared her own presidential bid earlier this year, Abigail Bessler, her 24-year-old daughter, an amateur stand-up comic herself, somewhat sheepishly reminded her mother about the senior thesis Ms. Bessler wrote at Yale.
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All of the family members we meet, from the silent stepmother to the son attempting to break out as a stand-up comic, are granted their own compelling story as their separate lives come together while the recession hits.
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See if she can keep a straight face during the comedy portion of the evening, which this year will include Michelle Wolf, a stand-up comic and "Daily Show" veteran whose Netflix series, "The Break," starts later this year.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - From a TV chef and stand-up comic to a man in jail and a former prime minister famed for raunchy mansion parties, the new European Parliament features no shortage of less than run-of-the-mill lobby fodder.
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People post a very short statement, a brief video, or a joke that hits the audience on a base and personal level like the way a stand-up comic does when he or she riffs on the news of the day.
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Ms. Zenovich proceeds chronologically through Williams's life, from his cosseted upbringing in the Midwest and Marin County through Juilliard, early difficult days as a stand-up comic, his big break of "Mork and Mindy" and the multipronged stardom that ensued.
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In a way, Pixels, which I rewatched earlier this week, reminds me most of Sandler's first movie, the ultra low budget Going Overboard from 1989, where Sandler plays a stand-up comic on a cruise ship looking for his break.
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Encouraged to try show business by Rocky Graziano, also a former middleweight champion, who had turned to acting and had been his friend since their time together in reform school, LaMotta later worked as a stand-up comic and an actor.
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Joel Hodgson, the creator of the series and one of its first hosts, who has worked as a magician, ventriloquist, stand-up comic and toy designer over the years, said he can't quite believe his show has reached the big time.
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Brafman, the former Catskills stand-up comic-turned-high-powered criminal defense lawyer, tried to deliver a killer punch line to prosecutors and their evidence Thursday as he asked jurors to acquit his client Shkreli of securities fraud and other charges.
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Jerry Seinfeld's Emmy-nominated series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee—which features the sitcom kajillionaire taking his stand-up comic friends (and the president) to get coffee in classic cars—has had episodes with both Chris Rock and Amy Schumer.
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Maisel, starring Rachel Brosnahan as Midge, a late-1950s housewife and mother who lives in the same Riverside Drive building as her neurotic, wealthy parents and suffers through her unfunny husband's ambitions to become a stand-up comic, is made for me.
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The upcoming Joker origin movie, which is set in 1980s New York and stars Phoenix as a failed stand-up comic who apparently decides to invest in some face paint and turn to a life of crime, is due out October 4, 2019.
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He's a stand-up comic and star of HBO's Silicon Valley, and she's a writer and executive producer of shows like Comedy Central's The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail; the couple also worked together on their now-ended podcast The Indoor Kids.
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Nowhere is this more apparent than in the loner mythology that surrounds the stand-up comic, which posits that genius comes only from private pain and public humiliation, each successful comic a grinning Horatio Alger who pulled himself up by his microphone cord.
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He sold one to the producers of the hit Redd Foxx series "Sanford and Son" in 1975 and went on to write three more scripts for that show and one for "Welcome Back, Kotter" before trying his luck as a stand-up comic.
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This flood of feedback directly and indirectly influences what content creators make next, like a stand-up comic reworking jokes based on how the audience laughed or a live musician learning from many shows the best way to get the crowd dancing.
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Mr. Barry hosts this special show to celebrate "Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg: One Comedian's Tour of Not-Quite-the-Biggest Cities in the World," his new book of travel essays documenting his life on the road as a stand-up comic.
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Now, this guy used to have a nice career, I guess, I mean, he was a pretty decent stand- up comic and actor for a while, so TMZ caught him doing something pretty nasty at the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Donald Trump&aposs star.
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Tanmay Bhat, the chief executive and co-founder of AIB, resigned after saying in a statement on Friday he made a "big mistake" by continuing to work with a stand-up comic even after Bhat knew of allegations of inappropriate behavior by the performer.
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He was a widely admired stand-up comic and a creator of two influential TV series: "It's Garry Shandling's Show," a self-aware deconstruction of the sitcom form, and "The Larry Sanders Show," a blistering behind-the-scenes look at a fictional late-night program.
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Michelle Wolf, a stand-up comic and frequent contributor to "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah," will be the featured entertainer at the annual gathering on April 28, the association announced on Thursday, taking on one of the most prominent — and perilous — gigs in comedy.
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Boom, you're Ali Wong, the stand-up comic who did an hour-long stand-up set while seven months pregnant (and somehow managed not to pee herself in the process — a feat you might not be able to pull off while watching her hilarious special, Baby Cobra).
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He was a bit more average-looking; he came into the picture with an ex-wife, two kids, and a career as a stand-up comic; but he was willing to give Mary Jane the love and commitment she deserved — and viewers didn't know how to feel.
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"Always Be My Maybe," the movie in question, stars the stand-up comic Ali Wong and the "Fresh Off the Boat" lead Randall Park, old friends in real life who also wrote the film together and then brought in his sitcom's creator, Nahnatchka Khan, to direct.
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To promote the movie, Mr. Nanjiani is headlining this stand-up tour, on which he is joined by other comedians who appear in the film: the "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Ray Romano, the "Saturday Night Live" cast member Aidy Bryant and the stand-up comic Kurt Braunohler.
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But it also concentrates on the late, richly brushed political takedowns in his works, which anticipate, in tone, one of the stand-up comic strategies of current White House Twitter discourse: delivery of weaponized insults followed by a "just kidding" that no one is meant to believe.
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Norman Brokaw, who rose from teenage mail clerk to top mogul at the William Morris talent agency, where he broke ground in the fledgling television industry for idled Hollywood stars and a black stand-up comic named Bill Cosby, died on Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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The Week Ahead The stand-up comic Mike Birbiglia has earned a reputation as a great storyteller, through performances on the podcast "This American Life" and in his Off Broadway show (and later, movie) "Sleepwalk With Me," but this might have obscured his skill as a joke teller.
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Hark Morner, the enigmatic figure at the center of Lipsyte's fourth novel, is a failed stand-up comic who becomes a self-help guru of sorts by espousing a form of deep concentration called "mental archery," which helps people find focus in a time of chaos and distraction.
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A former jazz drummer and stand-up comic who was later a writer, campus lecturer and filmmaker, Mr. Abel was best known as a perennial public gadfly, a self-appointed calling that combined the verbal pyrotechnics of a 19th-century flimflam man with acute 20th-century media savvy.
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On Comedy Since her last special, the stand-up comic Maria Bamford has gotten married, and while romantic commitment is a primary theme of "Old Baby," her new hourlong special released on Netflix last week, don't expect the usual jokes about how a wedding ends your sex life.
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In April, the dependably funny stand-up comic broke into the national consciousness with a scathing set at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, which since they didn't invite a comic this year, was so cutting that it may have ended a venerable tradition that was probably better off gone.
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The show has all the elements of traditional burlesque — the red-curtained theater, the stand-up comic interlude, the overt sexiness — but the soundtrack is hip-hop, heavy metal and country, and the dancers were just as comfortable hanging upside down on a pole as they were doing the can can.
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"Fresh Off the Boat" had been renewed by ABC for a second season, and Wong's first Netflix special, "Baby Cobra," which she filmed while eight months pregnant, with a belly so swollen she looked structurally unsound, had become a smash hit, turning her from a gigging stand-up comic into a breakout star.
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He is currently appearing in the film "The Big Sick" as a dad whose daughter (Zoe Kazan) is in a medically induced coma (it's funnier than it sounds); the comedian Kumail Nanjiani ("Silicon Valley") stars in the film as, you guessed it, a stand-up comic, as well as the daughter's sometime beau.
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Others have scattered to the four winds, including Bill (James McAvoy), now a successful novelist; Richie (Bill Hader), who's spun his talent for wisecracks into a career as a self-loathing stand-up comic; and Beverly (Jessica Chastain), now a successful fashion designer whose abusive marriage echoes her relationship with her father.
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A stand-up comic in his spare time but known for his no-nonsense demeanor during more than three decades on the bench, Justice Tomei witnessed suicide and murder attempts in his courtroom, quoted Scripture to a priest convicted of child molestation and once penalized dawdling prosecutors by dismissing charges against a serial rapist.
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Winners: Hillary Clinton, President Obama, Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Biden, stand-up comic and Sanders supporter Sarah Silverman, and CNN.
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Another district attorney reopened the file a decade later and charged the TV star after stand-up comic Hannibal Buress' riff about Cosby being a rapist prompted more accusers to come forward and after a federal judge, acting on a request from The Associated Press, unsealed some of Cosby's startling, decade-old testimony in Constand's related civil suit.
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Many people — myself included, at one time — consider Louis C.K. to be the greatest living stand-up comic, an astute, self-effacing, disgusting, loving dad who managed to win over not just the morning talk radio boys' club but tougher crowds like feminists and art snobs (maybe because none of us listened to what he was saying to the talk radio boys' club).
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"I don't know any other show that has as much of a genuinely diverse cast of people giving their opinions straight to camera," says correspondent Ronny Chieng, who, like Noah, is a one-man manifestation of the show's melting-pot vibe: A Chinese stand-up comic, he was born in Malaysia, grew up in Singapore and New Hampshire, attended college in Australia, and met Noah at a comedy festival in Montreal.
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Apropos of that Show About Nothing, it makes sense that the great Sanders impersonator has turned out to be Larry David: Sanders's fellow Brooklynite who, before he played the senator on Saturday Night Live, was a writer on the show who got only one skit produced and a stand-up comic who so notoriously feared and loathed audiences that he used to bail on club dates that were going poorly.
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While it seems that Sigler wants My Vibe to be considered poetry, he also plays the stand-up comic (one piece describes teaching a class on stand-up comedy at an art school), the conceptual artist (as when the narrator pins a pair of used A.P.C. jeans to the wall and declares it art), and the performance artist (many of these pieces were first publicly delivered as rambling and shaggy "readings").
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His offbeat between-songs patter — inspired, he once said, by the nights he spent on bills with Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl — led to occasional work as a stand-up comic and acting opportunities on TV comedy shows including "The Cara Williams Show" (1964-65), on which he played a jazz musician, and "Run, Buddy, Run," his first and only starring vehicle, as well as his long-running role as Mr. Griffin's foil.
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From the heavily put-on accents (I couldn't help but think of the influential Master of None episode that deals with this very same premise, asking brown actors to affect "Indian" accents) to the marriage-hungry motives of both mother and potential mates, the non-white women in the film were transformed from humans with agency, to cartoonish FOBs who wanted little more than to end up a dutiful Muslim bride to a… stand-up comic?
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