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Stand-up comedy consists of one-liners, stories, observations, or shticks that can employ props, music, impressions, magic tricks, or ventriloquism . A performer in this genre can be known by the masculine and gender-neutral terms stand-up comedian and stand-up comic, or by the feminine term stand-up comedienne.
Despite a history of staged comedy acts from the 16th and 17th centuries, modern stand-up in India emerged in the 1980s. Although a few performers in Spain and Brazil introduced stand-up comedy in the 1950s and 1960s, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Germany were not considered to have developed stand-up traditions until the late 1990s and early 2000s.
This is a list of stand-up comedians from the United States This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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The following is a list of notable stand-up comedians by nationality. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Louis Alfred Székely ( / ˈluːi ˌseɪˈkeɪ /; [2] born September 12, 1967), known professionally as Louis C.K. ( / ˈluːi ˌsiːˈkeɪ / ), [a] is an American stand-up comedian, actor and filmmaker. [4] [5] C.K. has won three Peabody Awards, [6] three Grammy Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards, [7] and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as ...
David Adkins (born November 10, 1956), [1] better known by his stage name Sinbad, is an American stand-up comedian and actor.He became known in the 1990s from being featured on his own HBO specials, appearing on several television series, most notably as Coach Walter Oakes in A Different World (1987–1991) and as David Bryan on The Sinbad Show (1993–1994).
Steven Wright. Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer. He is known for his distinctive lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations.