Comedians and actors use this comedic method as part of their act, e. g. Rodney Dangerfield, Bruce Campbell, Steven Wright, Emo Philips, Tommy Cooper, Mark Linn-Baker, Henny Youngman, Mitch Hedberg, Dan Mintz, Zach Galifianakis, Demetri Martin, Jimmy Carr, Anthony Jeselnik, Tim Vine, Milton Jones, Shmuel Breban, Stewart Francis etc.

Leno made his debut as a solo performer in 1869, returning to the Britannia music hall in Hoxton, where he became known as " The Great Little Leno, the Quintessence of Irish Comedians ".

It was not until his appearance on HBO's Rodney Dangerfield's Ninth Annual Young Comedians Special in the summer of 1984 that he became well known.

It opened on December 29, 1720, with a French play La Fille a la Morte, ou le Badeaut de Paris performed by a company later known as ' The French Comedians of His Grace the Duke of Montague '.

Sanosuke is best friends with Nagakura Shinpachi and Todo Heisuke, forming a trio known as " The Three Comedians ", whose chief hobby seems to be annoying Tetsunosuke.

The arena is a regular venue for some of the worlds best known Comedians such as Russell Brand, Lee Evans, Ricky Tomlinson, John Bishop, Ricky Gervais and Peter Kay who in 2011 played the arena for 5 nights running with all shows selling out within hours of going on sale.

Hugh Francis " Frank " Carson KSG ( 6 November 1926 – 22 February 2012 ) was a Northern Irish comedian and actor, best known on television in series such as The Comedians and Tiswas.

In the Czech Republic, he is known as Král komiků ( King of Comedians ).

He is best known as the original host of the game show Catchphrase between 1986 and 1999, and one of the stars of The Comedians.

Comedians, like Lenny Bruce, that since the late 1950s have been labeled " sick comedy " by mainstream journalists, have also been labeled with " black comedy.

Comedians, such as Ken Dodd, Peter Kay and Jim Davidson, have appeared at the hall, which has also staged televised darts tournaments including the Grand Slam.

Comedians such as Tim Allen, Denis Leary, Chris Rock and Louis C. K., among many others, have all performed at the TD Garden during their nationwide tours.

Eliza performed until 10 days before Edgar's birth and may have named her second son after the Mr. Edgar who led the Charleston Comedians.

Comedians to have featured on Jongleurs TV shows include: Jo Brand, Rory Bremner, Julian Clary, Phil Cool, Steve Coogan, Jack Dee, Michael Mcintyre, Peter Kay, Ruby Wax, and Paul Chowdhury.

Many other comedians have made cameos on the show as characters, including Brian Posehn, Patton Oswalt, Aziz Ansari, and Zach Galifianakis, who took a break from the Comedians of Comedy tour to tape their parts during the summer of 2005.

Comedians such as Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Dunham have appeared at the arena.

The sketch originally used such reasonable categories as " Celebrities ," " Movies ," and " Popular Music ," but as the celebrities ' ineptitude grew more apparent the categories became more childish, even including categories whose titles suggest that the contestants will be able to infer the correct response without even reading the clues, such as " Colors that End in ' Urple '," " States that Begin with ' Californ '," " Famous ' Kareem Abdul-Jabbars '," " Black Comedians Named ' Whoopi '," and " Drummers Named ' Ringo ,'" and categories that do not require any responses whatsoever, such as " Don't Do Anything " ( where all three contestants are required to remain motionless in order to receive money ), " I Have a Chardonnay " ( where the contestant automatically gets the points and Trebek would get to have a glass of wine ), and " Automatic Points " ( where a contestant is " automatically awarded the points " just for choosing a dollar value from the category ).

Comedians among Stewart Lee, Seann Walsh, Jack Dee and Micky Flanagan have all performed at the theatre in recent years.

Comedians Rip Taylor, Dave Coulier and Ruby Wax have brief appearances in the restaurant scene.

) Comedians Daniele Gaither, Nicole Parker, Frank Caeti and Bobby Lee spoofed the series on the season finale of MADtv in 2006.

In 2012, a promo video for Seinfeld's widely successful new Internet series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee features Barry Marder and will debut on September 6, 2012.

She also appeared in the Poker Royale: Comedians vs. Pros series.

* The Comedians ( TV series ), a British television show of the 1970s and mid-1980s

The Comedians was another programme which looked back at the live entertainment of the music halls and was also a prototype of many later stand-up comedy series.

He then became one of the original stars of The Comedians, a popular TV series of the 1970s produced by Johnnie Hamp for the Manchester-based Granada Television, which consisted entirely of short slots by mature stand-up comedians.

He was featured on the 2005 documentary series The Comedians of Comedy on Comedy Central and Showtime.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedians ' Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedians ' Comedian, he was voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

In a 2005 poll to find " The Comedians ' Comedian " ( UK ), he was voted 21 in the top 50 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

In a 2005 poll of fellow comedians and comedy insiders to find the Comedians ' Comedian, Monkhouse was voted among the best 50 comedy acts.

In a 2005 poll to find the Comedians ' Comedian, she was voted amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

In 2005, a poll to find the Comedians ' Comedian saw him being voted amongst the top 20 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

The comedians involved formed a union called Comedians for Compensation and fought for pay where they had received none before.

In addition, he made an appearance in a 2005 poll of comedians and critics to find the Comedians ' Comedian, a search for the 50 greatest funnymen of all time.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

His career soon received another upturn, though, as he appeared on Rodney Dangerfield's Young Comedians Special, in 1987.

Hopper ’ s final oil painting, Two Comedians ( 1966 ), painted one year before his death, focuses on his love of the theater.

Comedians of this era often donned an ethnic persona — African, Scottish, German, Jewish — and built a routine based on popular stereotypes.

Comedians Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse and Mark Williams affectionately parodied the band in a number of what the band called ' hysterically accurate ' " Slade in Residence " and " Slade on Holiday " sketches, in their The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer television programme in the early 1990s.

After opening a show by comedian Dennis Miller in 1987, Schneider won a slot on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by Miller.

In 1945, Sturla Gudlaugsson, a specialist in Dutch seventeenth-century painting and iconography and Director of the Netherlands Institute for Art History and the Mauritshuis in The Hague, wrote The Comedians in the work of Jan Steen and his Contemporaries, which revealed that a major influence on Jan Steen's work was the guild of the Rhetoricians or Rederijkers and their theatrical endeavors.

Comedians are selling out arena tours, being cast in the West End and on the big screen here and in the US.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld visited City Island Diner on the island with Ricky Gervais in one of the webisodes of his Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

In 1995, Attell was featured on two HBO specials: alongside up-and-comers Louis C. K., Anthony Clark, Eric Tunney and Dave Chappelle, he was a featured performer on the 1995 Young Comedians Special, hosted by Garry Shandling.

He was included in the top 50 of E4s 100 Greatest Comedians, and also appeared number 54 on Channel 4's top 100 greatest standups.

Television stand-up reached a peak of popularity on British schedules with the immensely popular ITV programme The Comedians.

" Manning became famous on British television during the 1970s, appearing on shows including The Comedians and The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.

* The Comedians ( 1967 film ), a 1967 film based on the novel by Graham Greene

Despite being so critical of himself, LaMarche would be granted the opportunity of being part of the 1985 HBO production, Rodney Dangerfield Hosts the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special, on which also appeared Bob Saget, Rita Rudner, Louie Anderson, Yakov Smirnoff, and the breakout first appearance of Sam Kinison.

Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 ( The Mulligan Guard Picnic ) and 1885, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham.

" On Boston radio station WBCN, Dane Cook was named by radio show Toucher and Rich to a tournament of the top 16 " Worst Comedians " and, based on listener voting, was voted the " Worst Comedian " of all.

Comedians Paul Riley and Mark Cox also appeared regularly on the show.