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
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Yes Please
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Why Not Me?
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Modern Romance
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Last Words
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
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Actors and Comedians
106 books — 11 voters
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I am a celebrity let me write.
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Books Are Entertainment Too!
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Humorous Memoirs and Non-Fiction
963 books — 1,436 voters


Demetri Martin
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

Louis C.K.
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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