Stand-up comedy is a comedic style.

Stand-up comedy is often performed in comedy clubs, bars, neo-burlesques, colleges and theaters.

Stand-up is an art form that is openly devoted to getting immediate laughs from an audience above all else, unlike theatrical comedy which creates comedy within the structure of a play with amusing characters and situations.

Stand-up comedy is the focus of four major international festivals: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland ; Just for Laughs in Montreal, Canada ; HBO's U. S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Melbourne, Australia.

Nuhr is regarded as a mediator between classical comedy and intelligent Stand-up comedy.

Stand-up comedy is an emerging art form.

: The Stand-up time classification by Lauffer is often regarded as the origin of the New Austrian Tunnelling Method ( NATM ).

This category is a sub category of: Category: Stand-up comedy.

He is known for his role as Jamie Custer in Custer's Last Stand-up, and for his role as Mondo O ' Connell in Fair City.

The other roller coaster with such a vertical loop is Riddler's Revenge, a Stand-up roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain.

* Stand-up Extra-vehicular activity, an activity in which an astronaut partially emerges into space

Stand-up in the 1970s saw several entertainers becoming major stars based on stand-up comedy performances.

Stand-up consists of standing upright on the board and performing tricks on the face as well as in the air.

Stand-up bassist Joel Day left Tiger Army before the band was signed, so the Quakes stand-up bassist Rob Peltier was hired to play on the album.

Stand-up comedian Stephen K Amos regularly refers to Love Thy Neighbour in his routines, focusing particularly on how it changed white people's perceptions of him and his family.

* Spanking New on Seven ( Stand-up )

* Stand-up comedian and former kickboxer Mick Thomas was born and raised in Wexford, and currently lives on Long Island.

Stand-up PWCs first appeared on the US market in 1973 and were produced by Kawasaki.

Stand-up comedy has been fairly well represented on television.

Stand-up humour later had mixed fortunes on the small screen, often shunted away to the small hours or as part of a larger entertainment extravaganza.

Norton's first half-hour HBO stand-up special aired on October 21, 2005, as part of the HBO Stand-up Series One Night Stand.

In 2005 he participated in the Danish stand-up tour " Stand-up DK | UK | OK " with Danish comedians Rune Klan, Carsten Eskelund and Geo, this went on tour around Denmark and was never released on DVD.

* Richard Pryor and Chris Rock ( archive footage, uncredited ) as Stand-up comedians on TV

* Jo Koy, Stand-up Comic, often a panelist on E!

* Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld, of Massapequa, New York, performed for a national audience for the first time, introduced by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.

Stand-up comedian Bill Bailey performs a riff in his Part Troll live show in which he asks members of the audience for suggestions for foods to place cannabis in.

* Freddie Prinze ( 1954 – 1977 ), Puerto Rican and Hungarian descent Stand-up comedian, best known for his 1970s TV series Chico and the Man co-starring Jack Albertson.

Stand-up trains were added for 1984, and the attraction's name was changed to Rail Blazer.

Butt has won four Canadian Comedy Awards, for Best Male Stand-up ( 2001 ), Best Male TV Performance ( Corner Gas, 2004 – 05 ) and Best Writing-TV Series ( Corner Gas, 2004 ).

These include the EMMA Award, Time Out Award, and LWT Comedy Award for Best Stand-up Comedian, Spirit of the Fringe Award as well as the One World Media Award for his Channel 4 documentary, Bloody Foreigners.

He has also been nominated for awards, such as the Perrier Award for Best Comedian, the Gemini Award for Best Comedy Performance of 2003, the South Bank Award for Best Comedy of 2003, the Royal Television Society Award for Best Stand-up, and the European TV Award for his Bloody Foreigners.

" In 1992, Stone won the " American Comedy Award " for ' Best Female Stand-up ".

In 1983 young drama teacher Maria Kempinska created Jongleurs Comedy Clubs, now the largest Stand-up comedy chain in Europe.

Stand-up expanded from clubs, resorts, and coffee houses into major concerts in sports arenas and amphitheaters.

" Stand-up comedy was the most profitable and easily accessible route Mirkin found into the comedy industry, but " it wasn't a lifestyle that particularly coveted ," especially due to the traveling required.

Stand-up comic Bob Mills specialised in a cynical view of life and its everyday objects, and in pastiches of popular culture icons.

Stand-up comedians have long been a staple of variety and late-night talk shows ; indeed, talk-variety shows such as The Tonight Show traditionally open with a comedy monologue performed by the program host.

* 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) of the Apollo 17 mission.

Extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) is any activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside of a spacecraft beyond the Earth's appreciable atmosphere.

The modification is usually done with additives, such as EVA copolymers, microcrystalline wax, or forms of polyethylene.

* December 14 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) of Apollo 17.

Furthermore, there is the Finnish Business and Policy Forum ( Elinkeinoelämän valtuuskunta, EVA ).

Cork is light, durable, keeps warm and tends to transmit rod vibrations better than synthetic materials, although EVA foam is also used.

Extreme value theory or extreme value analysis ( EVA ) is a branch of statistics dealing with the extreme deviations from the median of probability distributions.

Common examples include vinyl acetate ( the resulting product is ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, or EVA, widely used in athletic-shoe sole foams ) and a variety of acrylates.

" The mission is aborted when the doors of the cathedral will not open, and not even Becket's EVA can open them.

Rex the Runt is an animated claymation television show produced by Aardman Animations for BBC Bristol in association with EVA Entertainment and Egmont Imagination.

EVA training is conducted at the Sonny Carter Training Facility.

As such, there is no film of the historic EVA, only a poor video transmission.

In corporate finance, Economic Value Added or EVA, is an estimate of a firm's economic profit – being the value created in excess of the required return of the company's investors ( being shareholders and debt holders ).

Quite simply, EVA is the profit earned by the firm less the cost of financing the firm's capital.

EVA is net operating profit after taxes ( or NOPAT ) less a capital charge, the latter being the product of the cost of capital and the economic capital.

If RONA is above the threshold rate, EVA is positive.

Although EVA is similar to residual income, under some definitions there may be minor technical differences between EVA and RI ( for example, adjustments that might be made to NOPAT before it is suitable for the formula below ).

Although in concept, these approaches are in a sense nothing more than the traditional, commonsense idea of " profit ", the utility of having a separate and more precisely defined term such as EVA is that it makes a clear separation from dubious accounting adjustments that have enabled businesses such as Enron to report profits while actually approaching insolvency.