Stand-up comedy

A comedian (feminine comedienne) or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This may be done by telling jokes, creating amusing situations, acting foolishly, or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comedian.

comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor

comedy style where the performer addresses the audience directly

American cable and satellite television channel

pseudonym or name variant used by performing artist

blackface performance

thumb|200px|A pair of performers at a New Year celebration; the at front, the behind him (artist unknown, 19th-century Japanese painting)

comedic genre

entertainment act that performs at a concert before the featured act

genre in which comedy is motivated by sexual situations and love affairs

live show at a variety of different clubs

Xiangsheng (), also known as crosstalk or comic dialog, is a traditional performing art in Chinese comedy, and one of the most popular elements in Chinese culture. It is typically performed as a dialog between two performers, or rarely as a monologue by a solo performer (similar to most forms of stand-up comedy), or even less frequently, as a group act by multiple performers. The Xiangsheng language, rich in puns and allusions, is delivered in a rapid, bantering style, typically in the Tianjin dialect (or in Mandarin Chinese with a strong northern accent). The acts would sometimes include sing

Anti-humor or anti-comedy is a type of alternative humor that is based on the surprise factor of absence of an expected joke or of a punch line in a narration that is set up as a joke, which in turn can have a humorous effect to some. This kind of anticlimax is similar to that of the shaggy dog story. In fact, some researchers see the "shaggy dog story" as a type of anti-joke. Anti-humor is described as a form of irony or reversal of expectations that may provoke an emotion opposite to humor, such as fear, pain, embarrassment, disgust, awkwardness, or discomfort.

genre of comedy that derives humor from social awkwardness

joke that is delivered in a single line

thumb|A urinal in [[Thailand with a ribald depiction]] Ribaldry, also known as blue comedy in performing arts, is a humorous genre of entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to indecency, with the humorous elements based on amusingly coarse and morally incorrect or irreverent talk and behavior. Blue comedy is also referred to as "bawdiness" or being "bawdy". Like any humour, ribaldry may be read as conventional or subversive. Ribaldry typically depends on a shared background of sexual conventions and values, and its comedy generally depends on seeing those conventions broken.

form of humor

comedy genre

comedy genre

a venue, typically a nightclub, bar, or restaurant where people watch or listen to performances, including stand-up comedians, improvisational comedians, impersonators, magicians, ventriloquists and other comedy acts

right|thumb|A heckler in Washington, D.C., leans across a police line toward a demonstration of Iranians during the Iran hostage crisis, August 1980.