stand-up comic
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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
She’s also a touring stand-up comic and hosts “Handsome,” a comedy podcast, with Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
Barabak: The criticism of this collective field is that it’s terminally boring, as if we’re looking to elect a stand-up comic, a chanteuse or a juggler.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 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
I think, Being a father is like being a stand-up comic in an empty room.
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
