Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolish (as in slapstick) or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comedian.

A popular saying, variously quoted but generally attributed to Ed Wynn, is, "A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny", which draws a distinction between how much of the comedy can be attributed to verbal content and how much to acting and persona.

Since the 1980s, a new wave of comedy, called alternative c ...more

Comedian Books

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

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This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Why is Nobody Laughing? by Yasmin Rahman

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott

Am I Really Pretty Rude For A Girl? by Rebecca Elliott

Teen Comedians

14 books — 1 voter

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Non-Fiction read in 2017

479 books — 85 voters

Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson

Actors and Comedians

106 books — 11 voters

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

I am a celebrity let me write.

270 books — 36 voters

The World According To Noddy by Noddy Holder

One Picture Two Hearts. A love story set in the 90's about th... by Christy Goss

Books Are Entertainment Too!

7 books — 1 voter

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Humorous Memoirs and Non-Fiction

963 books — 1,436 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Comedian”

“ Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say... sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of... it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like... after "I love you"... or "You're going to live"... or "It's a boy! ...more ”
― Demetri Martin

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“ Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. And the way you are with me and you’re just fun and you shit all over me and you make fun of me and you’re real. I don’t have enough time in any day to think about you enough...I don’t even think about women anymore. I think about you. ”
― Louis C.K.

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