The show, named Die Harald Schmidt Show, features stand-up comedy as well as famous national and international guests.

This sort of duo stand-up comedy, known as manzai in Japan, usually features a great deal of high-speed back-and-forth banter between the two performers.

Wilson found the repetitive nature of the questions to be so amusing -- and annoying -- that he wrote a song about them entitled " Biff's Question Song " which he now features regularly in his stand-up routine.

Fair Game uses humor as a lens to put the day's events in perspective, and features stand-up comedian ( and Rhodes scholar ) Faith Salie.

Comedy Central Presents is a half-hour long stand-up show that features various stand-up comedians in each episode.

The performance features the show's regulars, with the notable exceptions of Mervyn and Red Hand Luke, and also features a stand-up set from Tim McGarry who plays Da.

The festival features wine and cheese tasting sessions, live jazz and other music, stand-up routines, art exhibitions, dance and other performances.

The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre features a variety of comedy-related acts, including one-person shows, stand-up, and sketch comedy acts, but the theater is best known for its long-form improv shows.

Norton hosts the program, which features other comedians as well as clips of live stand-up.

Each episode of Conan is 60 minutes in length, including commercials, and typically features two celebrity interviews and a following musical performance or stand-up comedy act.

Lambert often features his unsuccessful stand-up comedy routine on air, to the displeasure of his co-hosts.

The station features not only various stand-up acts from the four members but various acts from other working class-esque comedians such as Brian Regan, Rodney Carrington, Kathleen Madigan, John Caponera, Rodney Dangerfield, Ray Romano, and others as well.

The series features slapstick sketches, monologues, TV parodies, and performances by guest stand-up comics.

Other stages include Trailer Park ( renamed The Village Pub in 2008 ), a marquee in the main arena which features the more esoteric indie bands during the day, and breakbeat on Saturday night ; the Lounge ( renamed the Beat Hive in 2008 ), a smaller marquee which used to specialise in more ambient and chilled performances during the day, and trance during the night but now plays host to a number of local, national, and international bands and DJs as well as a range of electronic music ; the Market tent, which is set in the market area a short walk from the main field and features mainly folk-oriented music, becoming a retro disco / karaoke venue on Saturday night ; and the Theatre / Fringe tent ( renamed the Pavilion in 2008 ), which hosts non-musical acts such as theatrical performances, stand-up comedy, performance art and spoken-word performers.

The programme features regular stand-up impressionism sections by Bremner, Another feature is interviews between Bird and Fortune, one of them normally as George Parr, a man in a government position or a businessman, who normally ends up exposing the idiocies of their area of expertise.

The show features stand-up comedians performing their acts, interspersed with original short films related to their rantings.

Paul Krassner ( born April 9, 1932 ) is an author, journalist, stand-up comedian, and the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958.

A frequent criticism, well-aired in the media over the last 20 years, has been that " stand-up comedy is taking over " the Fringe, that a large proportion of newer audiences are drawn almost exclusively to stand-up comics ( particularly to television comedy stars in famous venues ), and that they are starting to regard non-comedy events as " peripheral ".

He was also a frequent guest on the game show Match Game and a guest in a first-season episode of The Muppet Show ( written by former partner Jack Burns, whom he mentioned during a stand-up routine in the episode ).

Maron has been a frequent guest on the Late Show with David Letterman and made more than 40 appearances on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, more than any other stand-up performer.

Despite early recognition and winning many awards throughout his long career, Davidson has become known for his politically incorrect jokes in his stand-up act, which has made him a subject of negative media coverage and frequent criticism.

Jeni first received recognition through a series of Showtime stand-up specials and frequent appearances on The Tonight Show.

" Later, as Garcy's stand-up career shows similar promise, he falls into a depression and drug use as Prinze had, nearly destroying himself.

Over Labor Day weekend 1961, Brian took advantage of the fact that his parents were in Mexico City for a couple of days and intended to use the emergency money they had left for the boys to rent an amp, a microphone, and a stand-up bass.

Some stand-up comedians use props, music or magic tricks to enhance their acts.

Continuing that tradition, most modern stand-up comedians use television or motion pictures to reach a level of success and recognition unattainable in the comedy club circuit alone.

One of the recurring themes in his stand-up comedy and life is the use and support of cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms, and DMT.

Recordings of his sermons reveal that he used a " fire and brimstone " style, punctuated with shouts similar to the ones he would later use in his stand-up routines.

In the US, stand-up comedy programs became popular on many cable television channels beginning in the mid-1980s, as such " brick wall " shows ( nicknamed for the stereotypical use of a fake brick wall as a backdrop ) were cheap to produce and air.

However, like Extremeroller the season before, the track wasn't intended to use stand-up trains and, prior to the start of the 1985 season, the original trains and name were restored.

In 1986, the design was taken over by Peterbilt and a factory built dual-steer version with a stand-up drive on the right-hand side for refuse hauler use was offered.

Moffat observes that, like Seinfeld, an American sitcom that used a similar device, Joking Apart would use less of the stand-up as the series progressed.

Jerry Seinfeld joked in a stand-up routine that he ordered the Ginsu knife after seeing the infomercial so late at night that he was too tired to realize he had no use for the knives.

( This phrase results in a stand-up comedy act with Smokey and Thurgood in one episode ) " Smokey " later quits drug use by season 3, but is still homeless.

Dodd's stand-up comedy style is fast and relies on the rapid delivery of one-liner jokes.

Mitchell Lee " Mitch " Hedberg ( February 24, 1968 – March 29, 2005 ) was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery.

Hedberg's stand-up comedy was distinguished by the unique manner of speech that he adopted later in his career, his abrupt delivery, and his unusual stage presence.

In the same year he performed Pea Green Boat, a stand-up show which revolved around the deconstruction of the Edward Lear poem The Owl and the Pussycat and a tale of his own broken toilet.

In 2002, he also performed a solo stand-up show entitled Comedyoscopy, a deconstruction of comedy, comedic techniques and what makes people laugh.

In 2002 Scruggs won a second Grammy award for the 2001 recording of " Foggy Mountain Breakdown ", which featured artists such as Steve Martin on 2nd banjo solo ( Martin played the banjo tune on his 1970s stand-up comic acts ), Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitar solos, Paul Shaffer on piano, Leon Russell on organ, and Marty Stuart on mandolin.

In stand-up comedy the comedian usually recites a fast-paced succession of humorous stories, short jokes called " bits ", and one-liners, which constitute what is typically called a monologue, routine or act.

In 2005, he moved from screen to stage, performing character-driven stand-up comedy at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, with a show entitled " I, Pavel ", for which he grew a large beard.

During late 2000 and early 2001, Lee " gradually, incrementally and without any fanfare – or even much thought – gave up being a stand-up comedian ", and 2001 became the first year since 1987 that he did not perform at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Comedian Al Murray, best known for his stand-up persona " The Pub Landlord ", was born in Stewkley.

A mensch is a particularly good person, like " a stand-up guy ", a person with the qualities one would hope for in a dear friend or trusted colleague.

In 1991, he released Illin in Philly, a VHS tape of a stand-up performance, which was aired regularly on Comedy Central in the 1990s, and " On The Strength ", another stand-up performance, this time filmed in New York City.

The first significant success of his stand-up comedy career was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1995 with " Short, Fat Kebab Shop Owner's Son ", followed by " The Arab and the Jew " in 1996.

", he commented in one of his stand-up routines ), they based the first season of his sitcom in Bloomington, Indiana.

At the 2002 festival he not only presented a solo stand-up comedy show titled " Comedyoscopy ", but also performed with Cameron Bruce and Mick Moriarty in a music-based comedy trio called GUD.

Norton has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and on the Late Show with David Letterman, filmed an HBO stand-up special for the series One Night Stand as well as his special " Monster Rain ", co-starred in the short-lived HBO sitcom Lucky Louie and had cameos in the films Spider-Man, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Courting Condi.

Yu is known for her puns in creating radio programme titles and slang phrases ( e. g., si-dan-up /" 是但噏 ", literally " freestyle talk ", as a phonetic translation of " stand-up ").

In 2011, McGuinness went on his third stand-up tour, called " Paddy McGuinness: Saturday Night Live Tour ", which will start on 6 October 2011.

Miller, who performed in relatively few sketches ( and even fewer as the years went by ), became known for bringing his stand-up wit to " Weekend Update ", becoming the most memorable anchor since Chevy Chase back in 1975.

In that same year she performed as the featured stand-up comedian in " Raymann is Laat ", one of the highest-rated comedy shows on Dutch television.

In 2006 she was one of the featured performers in " Comedy Casino ", the first show completely dedicated to stand-up comedy on Belgian Television.

Fellow comic Rob Newman called him " a hilarious, anarchic, living legend ; a millennial Falstaff ", while Stewart Lee wrote that " Malcolm Hardee is a natural clown who in any decent country would be a national institution " and Arthur Smith described him as " a South London Rabelais " and claimed that " everything about Malcolm, apart from his stand-up act, was original ".

Conley recorded a live show in 1996 titled " Brian Conley: Alive and Dangerous ", which was televised and featured stand-up plus special Nick Frisby / Larry the Loafer and Dangerous Brian sketches.

Some parts of the stand-up material featured in the pilot were filmed for an episode in the second season, " The Ex-Girlfriend ", but were cut from the episode.

* In " The Red Dot ", an inebriated Dick cuts Jerry's stand-up short over the usage of the phrases " on the wagon " and " off the wagon ".

* In " The Finale, Part 2 ", Jerry performs stand-up for his fellow inmates in jail but gets no laughs ( except from Kramer ) and is heckled and threatened by a prisoner who was in for grand theft auto ( the last scene of the series ).

Also known as " Goosfest ", the week-long showcase comprises a wide variety of events promoting the cultural life of the village, consisting of amateur and professional practitioners ( many of whom are local ) across a wide range of the arts, including stand-up comedy, classical, folk and contemporary music, pottery, photography and paintings.