standup comedy
Microphone, audience, punchlines
Standup comedy is a performance art where a comedian speaks directly to an audience, delivering jokes, observations, and stories while standing alone on stage, typically with just a microphone.
The form emphasizes timing, persona, and the illusion of spontaneous conversation, though material is usually carefully crafted and rehearsed.
She's been doing standup comedy at clubs for ten years.
A performer is a standup comic or standup comedian; the short form standup works as both noun and adjective: He does standup, a standup routine.
- microphoneAudio input device
- hecklerOne who taunts performers
- punchlineHumor's final delivery
- timingArt of choosing moments
- crowdLarge public gathering
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- comedycomedy, jokes, humor, puns, sarcasm
- bar activitiesdarts, drinking, pool, karaoke, beer pong
- Men's MediaMaxim, Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Penthouse
- storytellingstorytelling, story, tale, narrative, narrator
- satirelampoon, parody, parody account, political satire, spoof
- commentaryeditorial, critique, op-ed, polemic, opinion
standup comedysketch comedy
Short comic performances
improv comedy · dramatic monologue · opera · ensemble comedy · sitcom
standup comedytragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
eulogy · dirge · funeral oration · elegy · dramatic monologue
standup comedysilent reading
Absorbing text without vocalizing
meditation · private study · literary fiction · documentary film
stand, standing, stands, standee, upward, upwards, upstanding, comical, comically