stand-up comic
Example Sentences
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Nate Bargatze, the country’s top selling stand-up comic, has a grand ambition: a $350 million theme park in Nashville, Tenn.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
He cut his teeth as a martial arts expert and stand-up comic before becoming an oddball character in the mid-1990s television sitcom “News Radio.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
Consider that in the three years that the best stand-up comic Globe has existed, past host Ricky Gervais has won twice, and for specials that didn’t exactly blow anybody away.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026
Not everybody is gonna know who I am as a stand-up comic.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025
One of the reasons laughter is so effective as a tool for persuasion—and any stand-up comic who has ever seen off a heckler with a zinging one-liner knows this—is that laughter is involuntary assent.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
