standup comic

Trump asked at one point, riffing on his likely Democratic rival in November like a standup comic.

The standup comic can look at a few words scribbled on a piece of paper and instantly remember a five-minute bit, complete with gestures, reaction times, pacing of the jokes, facial expressions, a body pivot at the right moment and every single word of the bit.

Maybe Congress needs an intervention — or maybe a standup comic should be speaker of the House.

After years spent, as she put it in a recent interview, “crying and dying,” she could hardly believe that the creators had trusted her to play a standup comic.

The actor and legendary standup comic known for his raw, scorched voice and crude jokes.