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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.
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 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 comedy has been fairly well represented on television.
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.
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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 and former kickboxer Mick Thomas was born and raised in Wexford, and currently lives on Long Island.
Stand-up trains were added for 1984, and the attraction's name was changed to Rail Blazer.
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.
Vanbiesbrouck was a Hybrid goaltender who combined the butterfly style and the more traditional Stand-up style.
Miss Von Hagen was named Best Female Stand-up of 2002 at the Canadian Comedy Awards.
Stand-up comedian Lucky Grills was cast as the titular Det.
Stand-up and most
* Stand-up role playing in the real world setting, including most military training ( much of which, though, takes a behaviourist approach )
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Stand-up expanded from clubs, resorts, and coffee houses into major concerts in sports arenas and amphitheaters.
* Stand-up Extra-vehicular activity, an activity in which an astronaut partially emerges into space
Stand-up and particularly
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.
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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.
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 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.
Stand-up consists of standing upright on the board and performing tricks on the face as well as in the air.
* 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 PWCs first appeared on the US market in 1973 and were produced by Kawasaki.
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.
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.
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