Robin Williams was mainly known for his anarchic standup comedy and his popular TV role as the wisecracking alien in Mork & Mindy ; in this film he played an inspirational teacher in a dramatic story about conformity and rebellion at an exclusive New England prep school in the 1950s.

The term " comedy club " usually refers to venues that feature standup comedy, as distinguished from improv theaters that host improv or sketch comedy and variety clubs that may also host musical acts.

It was a natural transition when she made her way into standup comedy, headlining as a successful comedienne in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York, and eventually touring across the country with her popular “ Comedy PJ Party ,” an on-stage slumber party with a number of comedic talents.

The Cosby Show was based on comedy routines in Cosby's standup act, which were based on his family life.

Before joining The Groundlings, Ferrell's attempts at standup comedy had little success.

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, a new six part comedy series featuring standup and sketches, began a six episode run on 16 March 2009.

Performances could include standup comedy, to concerts by solo singers.

He persuaded the double acts and Sayle to move from the Comedy Store along with Arnold Brown, an older standup comic who did not fit so obviously into the alternative comedy scene.

While still a freshman at Florida Atlantic, he appeared in his first standup comedy routine with Josh Abelson.

Originally an accountant, Brown worked hard at live standup, until he found a knack of presenting observational comedy in a slow, meandering but entertaining style.

In the UK, recent standup and revue comedy performances are also now receiving airing on radio.

* In 1995, Paul Rodriguez shot a standup comedy special from the prison, with much of the act geared toward the auditorium of convicts.

Much of his standup comedy stems from the use of paraprosdokians and garden path sentences spoken in a wandering falsetto tone of voice and a confused, childlike delivery of his material to produce the intended comic timing in a manner invoking the ' wisdom of children ' or the idiot savant.

Golden TV, the beloved and idiosyncratic standup comedy of Nikos, is back in a good mood to comment on current events and television to remind special moments of the past.

Reinterpretations of Csíkszentmihályi's flow process exist to improve performance in areas as diverse as business, piano improvisation, sport psychology, computer programming, and standup comedy.

Winstead made her standup comedy debut in 1983 in Minneapolis at the Brave New Workshop.

His radio and television career has made Anderson a highly recognised comedian in Australia, but he is foremost a standup comedy performer and known for naming his solo shows with a pun on his name.

After getting sober on Inauguration Day in 1989, LaMarche embarked again into the world of his first love, standup comedy, in the early part of 1990.

At this point, though he remained sober, LaMarche decided he just could not do standup comedy anymore.

LaMarche did not venture into voiceover acting again until years later as a side endeavor during his full-time standup comedy career.

The film follows the story of a young standup comedian's attempt to break into the big-time on the L. A. comedy scene.

Despite some initial opposition by his father, by 15 he began performing standup comedy and by 17 he won the title of " Chicago's Funniest Teenager " from the Chicago Sun-Times.

The two manzai performers came with messages from the gods and this was worked into a standup routine, with one performer showing some sort of opposition to the word of the other.

Part of the episode's notoriety stems from a popular standup routine by comedian Bill Cosby ( on his 1966 album Wonderfulness ), an account of his staying up late as a child to listen to scary radio shows against his parents ' wishes and being terrified by the chicken heart.

" Cox's decidedly different standup routine was infectious in its ridiculousness, and just as the studio audience had reached a peak of laughter, Cox suddenly switched gears, changed characters, and sang a high-pitched version of " The Drunkard Song " (" There Is a Tavern in the Town ") punctuated by eccentric yodels!

Robin Williams incorporated the tale into a standup routine for HBO.

In May 2010, Farley appeared as a guest on Tom Green's House Tonight where he performed a section of his new standup routine.

The Laugh Factory made headlines when Michael Richards went into a racist outburst toward two black men who were heckling him during a November 17, 2006 standup comedy routine at the venue.

Norton frequently performs at Caroline's and the Comedy Cellar, and sometimes performed at the weekly alternative standup " Eating It " show at the Luna Lounge before it closed in 2005.

-The Princesses of Comedy, an Off-Broadway production that features live standup routines by four female Jewish comics -- including Kahaney -- juxtaposed with the stories of legendary performers from the 1950s and 1960s: Totie Fields, Jean Carroll, Pearl Williams, Betty Walker, and Belle Barth.

In January 2010, Mirman performed standup on the John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show on Comedy Central.

" Essman made her UK standup debut at the Corn Exchange at the Newbury Comedy Festival in July 2007.

In the fall of 2004 Jay shot his first nationally televised special, a one hour episode of the standup series Comedy Now on CTV and The Comedy Network.

Spencer, who at his young age had already written for various standup comedians such as Rodney Dangerfield and television shows such as The Facts of Life and One Day at a Time, was unable to sell the script until the mid-1980s, when the release of the fourth Dirty Harry movie Sudden Impact and the popularity of NBC's Dirty Harry-inspired action series Hunter created demand for a satirical police television show.

Very similar collar patches are worn by British army officer cadets at Sandhurst on the standup collars of their dark-blue " Number One " dress uniforms.

Shamrock has said that since his knee injury, he has had difficulty shooting and taking people down, which resulted in Shamrock changing his primary style from a wrestler / grappler and moving more towards a standup fighter.

Amongst the many other artists who have performed at the theatre are ; UCL alumnus Ricky Gervais has performed two of his standup shows in the theatre, where they were also filmed for release on DVD and was the venue for Crusader Norman Housley come-back lecture series: Contesting the Crusades, which he developed into a popular history book.

These sketches were a good match for Hodgson, who began his career as a prop comic ; indeed, many of the inventions were items originally found in his standup act.

Sykes starred as Wanda Hawkins, an outspoken standup comic who is chosen to be a correspondent on a Washington, D. C., political talk show The Beltway Gang on WHDC-TV.

Standing or 5 ft 9 in ( 1. 73 or 1. 75 m ) tall, Sharkey was a standup brawler, who came right after his opponents.

He would go on to independently produce his first standup comedy DVD " Escape from Halcatraz " in 2008.

During his standup routines, Mandel would commonly go into character with the same voice as Bobby, often conversing with an unseen " parent ".

Smigel would go on to The Dana Carvey Show and Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, while Rock would guest star on In Living Colors final season before concentrating on standup comedy and film appearances.