stand-up comedy
Solo joke performance
Stand-up comedy is a performance art where a comedian stands alone before an audience, delivering jokes and humorous observations.
The format emphasizes timing, persona, and direct connection with the crowd.
Material ranges from one-liners to extended stories.
She's been doing stand-up comedy at clubs for years.
A practitioner is a stand-up comedian, or simply a stand-up.
- slapstickExaggerated physical humor
- stageRaised performance platform
- punchlinesJokes' concluding zingers
- killingCausing death deliberately
- killing itSucceeding spectacularly
late night set · satire · bombing · wit · open mic · five minutes · green room · laugh track · performance · callback · wordplay · dark humor · dry humor · hecklers · double entendre · self-deprecation · roast battle · club
stand-up comedysketch comedy
Short comic performances
improv comedy · improvisational theater · ensemble comedy · musical theater · one-act play
stand-up comedytragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
tearjerker · funeral oration · eulogy · lament · dramatic monologue
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