Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolish (as in slapstick) or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comedian.

A popular saying, variously quoted but generally attributed to Ed Wynn, is, "A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny", which draws a distinction between how much of the comedy can be attributed to verbal content and how much to acting and persona.

Since the 1980s, a new wave of comedy, called alternative c
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Comedian Gone Wrong
Bossypants
Comedian Gone Wrong 2
Yes Please
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Why Not Me?
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Modern Romance
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Last Words
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Bossypants by Tina FeyBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterThe Fry Chronicles by Stephen FryNapalm & Silly Putty by George CarlinAmerica (The Book) by Jon   Stewart
Comedy Memoirs and More
31 books — 20 voters
Bossypants by Tina FeyIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingYes Please by Amy PoehlerWhy Not Me? by Mindy KalingThe Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
Funny girl memoirs
81 books — 90 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas AdamsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Story of My Life by Helen KellerIf Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck
This is the.......life
1,189 books — 63 voters
Two Tickets To Paradise by Katie   LoveCult Girls by Natalie Grand
Cult Comedy
2 books — 3 voters



Criss Jami
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Craig Ferguson
I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.
craig ferguson

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