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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.
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Stand-up and comedy
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.
In 1983 young drama teacher Maria Kempinska created Jongleurs Comedy Clubs, now the largest Stand-up comedy chain in Europe.
Stand-up in the 1970s saw several entertainers becoming major stars based on stand-up comedy performances.
" 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 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.
Stand-up and is
A " Stand-up " EVA ( SEVA ) is where the astronaut does not fully leave a spacecraft, but is completely reliant on the spacesuit for environmental support.
: The Stand-up time classification by Lauffer is often regarded as the origin of the New Austrian Tunnelling Method ( NATM ).
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 and four
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 ).
Stand-up and major
Stand-up expanded from clubs, resorts, and coffee houses into major concerts in sports arenas and amphitheaters.
Stand-up and Fringe
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.
Stand-up and for
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.
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.
* 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.
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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 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.
* Stand-up comedian and former kickboxer Mick Thomas was born and raised in Wexford, and currently lives on Long Island.
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.
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