Stand-up comedy
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Stand-up comedy is an art form that involves a stand-up comic and an audience. Comics perform on a stage and deliver humorous and satirical monologues, sometimes incorporating physical acts. These per
George Carlin performing in 2008
Bill Bailey performing in 2007
Joan Rivers performing in 2009
Tiffany Haddish performing in 2013
Comedy
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Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium.
Stand-up comedy
…Character: A fictional persona created by the performer. Deadpan: The deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness or absurdity of the subject matter. This is also called dry humor, or dry-wit humor. Impressionist: Imitating…
Tragic Comic Masks of Ancient Greek Theatre represented in the Hadrian's Villa mosaic
Roman-era mosaic depicting a scene from Menander's comedy Samia ("The Woman from Samos")
Title page of the first quarto of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream (1600)
Edward Lear, Aged 73 and a Half and His Cat Foss, Aged 16, an 1885 lithograph by Edward Lear