How To Use Stand-up In A Sentence

The DVD set includes unaired, unrated stand-up sketches. TV on DVD
Stand-up is less about the material and more about confidence, authority and having a consistent persona.
Jersey political shtick stand-up at the Democratic National Convention; the arena that bore his name has gone through several different corporate sponsors since, and is currently a severely brand-infected assaultively unrelenting advertising-delivery module - in which basketball is still played, sometimes - sponsored by Izod. Can't Stop The Bleeding
His mood lightened as he returned to stand-up mode. Times, Sunday Times
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Stand-up comedy is the medium from which the doyens of light entertainment are recruited in today's world of low-budget television.
He kicks off with stand-up, dividing us into groups depending on how we deal with wasps. The Sun
Putner's satire on the supposedly streetwise US stand-up scene is biting: he conveys masterfully the gulf between Stevens's self-image and the bathetic reality.
For those who remain in ignorance, he was the greatest stand-up comedian of all time.
Despite those two years on the box, he was still a stand-up at heart. MAN AND WIFE
The August media bigfoot now tapes web video stand-ups.
Kay also brought in some comics he had met on the stand-up circuit.
When we were alone together, we were rather shy with each other, tacitly agreeing to abandon the stand-up routine.
If only he could sustain that funniness which he must naturally possess for an entire stand-up gig without resorting to cop-outs such as the aforementioned recycling of material.
Here, too, it resembles "The Producers," which was a last-gasp homage to the anything-for-a-laugh Borscht Belt schtickery on which the stand-up comedy of my childhood was based, with four-letter words sprinkled on top to give it a factitiously up-to-date air. The Re-'Producers'
They had sought him out to discover whether having a long barnet and beard makes a stand-up more or less comic.
In stand-up, you are the booker, the marketer, the promoter, and the performer.
If only he had Being a stand-up comedian is no laughing matter. Times, Sunday Times
Jack Straw, a man so unpleasant that even his son shuns his policies (although, the fact that he was dobbed in for cannabis possession by his own father may have something to do with it), was defending—probably ineptly and with a lie in every sentence—the government's Iraq policy, when Walter Wolfgang "heckled" him (if Jack thinks that's heckling, he should see a crap stand-up gig in Glasgow). Archive 2005-09-01
The alternative was stand-up tours or performing in small independent films. Times, Sunday Times
Patiently, he told me how he got into what we now call stand-up comedy by accident.
Escaping relatively unwarped from Rick Jenkins' mesmeric power, he's had a nice career, written some truly inspired stand-up best "Ladies, tell me if this is true" line ever and also been way ahead of the curve with his web presence. Eugene Mirman
Edinburgh can keep the military tattoo, all of the modern dance, and most of the London stand-up comedians.
Although this astonishing horse never sets hoof on stage, it looms large in the mind's eye, thanks to this stand-up comic monologue.
Women do not normally break into the big time by doing stand-up comedy.
Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal Fred Stoller Fred Stoller's neurotic Brooklynite whine makes Woody Allen seem like an amateur, and Mr. Stoller, 52, has worked his gift into a career, first as a deadpan stand-up comic and then as a nebbishy actor in countless short-lived sitcom roles: Elaine's annoying date in an episode of "Seinfeld," a mopey cousin on "Everybody Loves Raymond," a jerky waiter on "Friends. Diary of a Nebbishy Comic: 'My Seinfeld Year'
I used my material from when I was a stand-up comedienne.
It doesn't have the stand-up-straight chilly galbanum of No. 19 and its ilk. One viscous, one vibrant
His start came at the tender age of 18 when he began performing stand-up comedy on a dare from his University dorm mates.
As a stand-up comedian I had a love of the history of stand-up comedy and entertainment.
There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format.
As a stand-up comic, MacAulay has a rare gift - he can put his audience at ease and mercilessly ridicule them at the same time.
The ferocious and sometimes shambolic stand-up returns to vent his spleen. Times, Sunday Times
Riding boards in a prone position has been around probably longer than stand-up surfing.
A stand-up wash in the kitchen suited me and I wouldn't have put it past him to do a jimmy riddle in the tub, just to spite me. MR STARLIGHT
Throughout the first decade of television, the dominant influence was what would now be called stand-up comedy.
HORNG: You may think a laundromat is a strange place to do stand-up comedy. CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2003
Whitehead appears as a smarmy stand-up comic without the charisma or patter to carry off his narrative duties.
A stand-up wash in the kitchen suited me and I wouldn't have put it past him to do a jimmy riddle in the tub, just to spite me. MR STARLIGHT
These stand-up comics make a living performing at Comedy Clubs.
There's a stand-up head in the center console and lots of lockable stowage.
They dream of a return to that now vanished golden era when a Northern stand-up comedian with a trade-mark whine for a voice led the party.
They're stand-up guys, so they're all going to go into court and perjure themselves for you and risk going to prison. NEW YORK DEAD
By night he's a singer and stand-up comic who uses bad language and tackles controversial social issues.
Beeps, clicks and scratches run underneath - and alongside - strings, stand-up bass and a variety of percussion.
Stand-up comic and actor Bob Marley admits that sharing a name with a certain reggae superstar has had its ups and downs. Bob Marley (no, not THAT one) on his new Sirius comedy show and his role in 'Boondock Saints II' | EW.com
Women do not normally break into the big time by doing stand-up comedy.
In person, the Esquire columnist and author of four books is hyperactive, edgy and funnier than any stand-up comic.
The ferocious and sometimes shambolic stand-up returns to vent his spleen. Times, Sunday Times
The show intersperses stand-up bits with vignettes. TV on DVD
The geeky, stand-up reporter lets his brows furl together. FLASH FLOOD • by Gay Degani
In this show, these three stalwarts of the international comedy scene pooled their comic resources with devastating effect with a mix of stand-up, sketches and improvised material.
You'd call him the grandfather of stand-up comedy, if grandfather didn't seem altogether too cosy.
Modern surfing techniques as well as the modern stand-up board, nonetheless, were influenced by the bellyboard.
Around the same time, the term ‘gloomy old men’ gained popularity with stand-up comics, and the previously lauded workingmen with brows knit from their laborious efforts fell out of favor and were no longer respected.
Jon is a friendly, creative stand-up comedian, with a love of languages, martial arts, and a healthy loathing for heavy physical exertion.
We sat laughing and gasping in awe at the writing, the delivery and the sheer brilliance of Britain's best stand-up comic.
Yes, this king of self-reflexive stand-up is always close to pushing his luck too far. Times, Sunday Times
Yet my experiences in the salons and at the stand-up recitals of the new literary scene suggest that, despite the occasional piece of irritating modishness, the hyperbole with which some events are trumpeted and the odd ropy performance, there is an energy and invention on offer that the established scene and its practitioners might do well to allow to rub off on them. The new wave of literary events
He noticed that the ghost was smartly dressed in a cut-away coat with gilt buttons, a stand-up collar and Scotch cap.
A stand-up ride on an unbroken wave is the ultimate goal for the beginner.
The deadpan performance poet presents a night of stand-up, song and more. Times, Sunday Times
Simply everyone was there, my dears, from Roy Jenkins to Rab Butler, to Robert Morley to Richard Gordon, to Gordon Richards to the onliest distaff stand-up of the time, wonderful Joyce Grenfell, who told how a distant ancestor, Harrovian WH Grenfell, had been in Oxford's No3 seat in that 1877 dead-heat. Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating
Less harrowing is Jo Brand On Kissing Tue, 9pm, BBC4, in which the stand-up grumps her way through an investigation into the history, etiquette and cultural significance of smooching. It's a good week for … Romance
When we were alone together, we were rather shy with each other, tacitly agreeing to abandon the stand-up routine.
Variety will be the catchword at the new venue, with acts ranging from stand-up comedy to poetry readings.
While he considers himself first and foremost a stand-up comedian, his television career is on quite a roll.
Among the other three, one served in the Israeli army's Northern Command Ordnance Corps, one has an academic background, and the sixth is a former stand-up comedian. 08/27/2004
This straight-faced stand-up comedian became nationally known as the dour, intellectual cop Detective Sergeant Dietrich on Barney Miller, and went on to a long career as a popular supporting comedy player, most recently seen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses
The idea of having three parents seems ripe to provoke both stand-up comedy routines and horror. Times, Sunday Times
And turns his bile into something beautiful in his finest hour of stand-up yet. Times, Sunday Times
Have you ever gotten up in front of a crowd for anything like karaoke, poetry readings, or open-mic stand-up comedy?
He was using one of those microphones that stand-up comics often favour, a really bassy one with lots of hiss and crackle and constantly on the verge of some really serious feedback.
A bit of stand-up from our comedienne host boosts the giggle factor. The Sun
Conversely, some bellyboards were like shorter versions of stand-up boards.
Eddie's love of the stage saw him performing and compèring shows in which he established himself as a stand-up comedian.
But I did arrive at a point in my life where I realized I would not be a huge stand-up comic.
Bruce established his reputation on naughty language and bawdy social commentary: the hallmarks of modern stand-up comedy.
He promptly ordered his band to perform improv stand-up comedy to entertain the crowd during this moment of unexpected difficulty.
Private cooking lessons with the sous-chef, and endless yoga choices such as stand-up paddleboard and sunrise sessions. Times, Sunday Times
I guess someone needs to stand-up and put their name to any anti-Racism campaign that eventuates from this.
At Dovey Junction a new stand-up only passenger shelter has been erected following the demolition of the old buildings.
The improbable combo, including stand-up bass and flugelhorn, is as incongruous as its frontman.
An inside-the-park homer is rare, and a stand-up inside-the-parker is rarer still, but on this one, the fleet Wise didn't even draw so much as a throw. USATODAY.com - AL beats NL in the final Double-A All-Star finale
Show Us Ya Wits is a zany hour of belly-achingly funny and fresh stand-up.
Withrow keeps the guitar his patient gave him in his musical man-cave, among other homemade guitars, a mandolin and a curious-looking stand-up bass known as a washtub bass or "gut bucket" for its key component. CNN.com
He has now reinvented himself as a radical stand-up with just enough charm and stagecraft to get away with an amazingly low ratio of jokes to running time.
I did stand-up, wore a skin-tight blue leather suit, recorded an album, made a documentary, and frightened my friends and family.
So you need to act fast to catch the king of self-reflexive stand-up in this most conducive of settings. Times, Sunday Times
* Show #1 Monday Dec 12, "bringer" show and Aspen Comedy Fesival audition night at Stand-Up New York: Show starts at 9pm, but you need to get there by 8:30 to keep your reservation. Archive 2005-12-11
This stand-up JET SKI watercraft was powered by a high-revving 294 cm3 reed-valve Single with CD ignition and water-jacketed exhaust.
Then came a career switch to stand-up comedy, TV acting, movie roles and, finally, the lairdship of Candacraig.
And if you want the best stand-up comedy available for a dollar, try a speaker meeting on skid row.
Whether she manages it or not you'll see for yourself while enjoying plenty of richly funny autobiographical stand-up; Pacquola's got a self-critical, obsessively questioning personality that's a far cry from the lairy Aussie stereotype. This week's new comedy
Kane's stand-up (as usual, with a cheeky but thought-provoking take on the social anthropology of his native Essex) is always a reliable source of entertainment, while Conaty's leftfield character comedy and lovable anecdotal material shows why the judges are tipping her to go far. This week's new comedy
The comic had risen through the stand-up ranks, working hard at developing an act after his initial performances drew derision.
My grandfather was a clergyman in the Church of England and he was one of the funniest stand-up comics I ever met.
He still characterises himself as having a foot in both the stand-up and theatre worlds and is currently working with Murphy on putative comic projects.
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An overpowered Zodiac with a fiberglass transom and stand-up steering console. BLACKWATER SOUND
A lot of the way I survived as a stand-up comedian was writing jokes for other comedians.
Variety will be the catchword at the new venue, with acts ranging from stand-up comedy to poetry readings.
I had a stand-up row with my boss today.
Loops, beatboxing, sound effects and stand-up make for a twisted mix of comedy and music. Times, Sunday Times
We got the school newsletter and it was praising Liam for being a ‘top notch bingo caller and promising stand-up comedian’.
A stand-up wash in the kitchen suited me and I wouldn't have put it past him to do a jimmy riddle in the tub, just to spite me. MR STARLIGHT
A couple was having a stand-up row in the street.
Men in dark pants, white shirts and suspenders hustle around with scripts in hand, intoning into stand-up microphones and creating their own alarming sound effects as they chronicle the fake Martian invasion. Review: Scena Theatre's 'The War of the Worlds' at H Street Playhouse
There have been fallings-out between them before, visceral back-biting and stand-up rows that are often settled long before they enter the public domain.
He kicks off with stand-up, dividing us into groups depending on how we deal with wasps. The Sun
Juanita used her critique to discuss her late lamented career in stand-up comedy.
He initially did temp work to sustain his writing, and tried out as a stand-up comedian. Times, Sunday Times
The masquerade is where fans play instruments and perform skits, dance numbers, and stand-up comedy in costume. Ed at Otakon — Saturday and Sunday » Manga Worth Reading
She founded the legendary drag festival that is held in Manhattan every year, and created her own trademarked routine of singing and dancing fused with stand-up comedy.
On Thursday afternoon, we have a stand-up row in his office. CHAMELEON
Ken comes alive in a theatre situation, and his wit and intelligence are a refreshing change to the mundane stand-up acts as he makes you see life through new eyes.
Jon is a friendly, creative stand-up comedian, with a love of languages, martial arts, and a healthy loathing for heavy physical exertion.
Lecturers are learning to be more like stand-up comedians in a series of seminars. Times, Sunday Times
Big dicks can always shrivel into nubbins of insignificance, and as such they are obvious stand-up stand-ins for phallocentric patriarchy. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
Being a comedian is truly a great profession; when stand-up comedy is done right, there are few things in this life that can match it.
He has also written children's plays, pantomimes, comedy sketches and radio commercials and has directed more than 100 productions, spanning everything from Shakespeare to stand-up comedy.
It was my ambition to be a stand-up comedian. Times, Sunday Times
It's rare to find a stand-up with such a gift for characterisation or such original and well-researched material.
But generally, the standard is high - these funny and charming wannabes are the equal of many stand-ups I've seen on the circuit.
The Christchurch gang show is one of the longest running in Britain, and features a cast of 60 who will present an extravaganza of songs, sketches and stand-up comedy.
It has set a new standard for televised sketch comedy and stand-up.
Their generic rock is the backing for observations about gender so hackneyed that the audience would demand a refund if a stand-up comic tried them. Times, Sunday Times
Aided by the spooky sounds of a theremin, "Radio Play" explores what he called "a fragmented psychology," and leads audiences in and out of familiar and disorientating material—a technique he also employs in his stand-up comedy act. An Old-Fashioned Show in the Hair and Now
It's astounding that, at 24 years of age, the stand-up comic has already dabbled in more professions than most people attempt in a lifetime.
They're stand-up guys, so they're all going to go into court and perjure themselves for you and risk going to prison. NEW YORK DEAD
A stand-up wash in the kitchen suited me and I wouldn't have put it past him to do a jimmy riddle in the tub, just to spite me. MR STARLIGHT
By night he's a singer and stand-up comic who uses bad language and tackles controversial social issues.
It was the first rule of the experienced hostess to get her antipathetical guests on soft cushions, naturally: stand-up rows were less easy to pursue when sitting down. The Alamut Ambush
His patter is one extended verbal riff, multilayered and often hilarious: it has more in common with stand-up comedy than with traditional talk radio.
For poor Michael Richards, a man most well-known for his ability to enter a room in extravagant fashion as Kramer on “Seinfeld,” stand-up comedy is a place to go to watch your career slowly pass away; or, you know, a place to go to feed your inner-racist. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Grantham, an occasional amateur stand-up comic, wants people to laugh along.
The award, a virtual passport to fame and fortune, can usually be relied on to bring out the worst in the male-dominated world of stand-up, including a ruck at the party in the early hours of Sunday when the winner is announced.
A near godfather to the stand-up genre, Pryor is a legend when it comes to biting wit and acidic observation - acts like Chris Rock owe a great debt to the comedian.
Gerald Ford, as a speaker, was the exact opposite of a stand-up comic.
What ensues is neither stand-up nor sketch comedy, but a fluid multimedia happening that co-opts the audience and a bewildering number of stooges.
It plays out like a good stand-up comedy routine, frequently coming back to several details or situations, which get more funny through repetition and changing context.
During the trial in the Federal courthouse in DC, the TV trucks had permanent positions on the street, and marked spots for their stand-ups to gabble into their microphones. Pinch me. « Dating Jesus
It has a stand-up collar with detachable hood, and a zipper with double storm flaps and Velcro closures.
Before the funnyman was a successful sitcom star, he was a struggling stand-up comedian who relied on dubious means to make a living. SPIKE Featured Videos
But like all serendipitous people, she was resilient: She took the suggestion of a theater critic to try stand-up comedy.
She keeps her stand-up sharp by hitting the Provincetown comedy circuit every summer.
Stand-up comics, actors and writers do not retire, Mr. Howerd pointed out.
The deadpan performance poet presents a night of stand-up, song and more. Times, Sunday Times
Sketch comedy, improvisation, stand-up and much more will be performed in this intimate venue on Friday, September 24.
The stand-up edging prevents soil from falling on the path.
Sketch comedy, improvisation, stand-up and much more will be performed in this intimate venue on Friday, September 24.
His mood lightened as he returned to stand-up mode. Times, Sunday Times
As a writer who is constantly described as a purveyor of mordant wit and dark humour in subjects such as death and alcoholism, you could say that stand-up was the natural stepping stone in communicating her thoughts.
Most people err on the side of social convention, clapping politely as the drums pick up where the guitar left them, waiting for the drums to end to clap again while the stand-up bass does its thing.
But wakeboarding, waveskiing, stand-up paddleboarding and sit-down hydrofoiling? Times, Sunday Times
When you have a hamster in your head than runs on its wheel at 300 revolutions a second, you certainly don't have to plan your stand-up act.
Writing stand-up only heightens my sense that one joke, plus another joke, plus another all adds up to a superficial experience.
The world of stand-up is typically portrayed as riddled with self-loathing misanthropes, barely able to contain their disgust with the world, who make a living poking fun at its most visible targets and at one another.
I had a girlfriend, Lisa DeLarios, who went to New York, and was doing great stand-up comedy.
But as her stand-up became more mainstream, more and more of our daily workaday lives melded themselves into the Becoming Roseanne Connor Family. Roseanne Archy
‘I used to be a stand-up goaltender,’ says Rangers and Team USA goalie Mike Richter.
One son is a white boxer, the other a stand-up comedian of mixed race.
The alternative was stand-up tours or performing in small independent films. Times, Sunday Times
Devon-born stand-up Josh Widdicombe's had a rather unusual comedy career, having started out as an occasional sports subeditor at of all the most unlikely arenas for humour the Guardian. This week's new comedy
The exciting, underground art form of slam, merging hip-hop, poetry and stand-up is growing in popularity across the UK.
High self-image and low self-esteem, according to one theory, lie at the heart of the stand-up comic.
The forcefulness of his stand-up comedy and righteousness of his political writing make it easy to forget that the fortysomething father of two is a good-natured, funny and amenable bloke.
But games aside, some people -- actually, quite a few -- figure that no synthetic sentient will ever be able to do things humans take for granted, such as performing stand-up comedy, writing meaningful poetry, or simply knowing when it's safe to jaywalk. Seth Shostak: Today Jeopardy, Tomorrow the World
The world is invigilated by stand-ups in amusing hats, taking rib-tickling modes of transport. Times, Sunday Times
Sara is a writer and stand-up comic who works quite happily in San Francisco, thank you very much.
This is stand-up paddleboard yoga, the latest flavour combination in the fitness parlour. Times, Sunday Times
Like a vaudeville performer, Victorian novelist, or stand-up comic, Hirst will do anything to hold your attention.
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I quickly looked through it, but of note is the stand-up format of the book, or as they call it: Hands Free.
He noticed that the ghost was smartly dressed in a cut-away coat with gilt buttons, a stand-up collar and Scotch cap.
Kunstler has the tartness and timing of a stand-up comic, so his complaints about American life often end up being as hilarious as they are damning.
A stand-up goalie with a lightning quick glove, Osgood is as skillful as any other netminder in the league.
Womanism is feminism's vulgate, found everywhere, from the humorous disparagement of men by stand-up comedians and novelists through to more savage criticisms of men in the context of fears of social disintegration.
Applicants for the Stand-Up Award need to send in a VHS video cassette of their stand-up routine.
At its worst, it's like a humorless stand-up comic's miserable childhood routine.
Features include a stand-up fleece lined collar, raglan sleeves and heavy duty rib cuffs and waistband.
They involved live music, interviews, stand-up comedy and video, and had been regularly attracting an audience of a couple of hundred people.
In my recent review of the tribute to Mort Sahl, because I wanted to include long quotes from Albert Brooks and Sahl himself, I carelessly summarized an outstanding performance by veteran stand-up comic Richard Lewis with two parenthesized words, "dick jokes. Paul Krassner: Apologizing to Richard Lewis
Most stand-up comedians have a nervy edge - it's no picnic, after all, standing alone on stage while people stare at you, demanding you make them laugh.
Kathy Griffin: Strong Black Woman (Bravo) Premiering last night, Griffin’s latest stand-up special premiered is being repeated often this week. 57 Channels and Something On : Scrubbles.net
For a stand-up comedian, heckling and booing are all part of a night's work. Times, Sunday Times
In this vertiginous mode, Armantrout can sound less like other ‘Language writers’ than like an improbably terse stand-up comic.
Robert Benchley, a writer turned stand-up comedian who pioneered television-type comedy in his short films.
The cream of northern stand-up is coming to York in a show of solidarity for beleaguered York City fans.
This mix of journalism, activism and stand-up comedy looks to be provocative and informative. Times, Sunday Times
I've been patronizing the bar, at 45 E. 18th St., for years and have come to feel a close personal relationship with those stand-up porcelain fellows, so richly deserving of the credit they'll be receiving. Porcelain Majesty
The alternative was stand-up tours or performing in small independent films. Times, Sunday Times
Lawrence, like Richard Pryor before him, uses his stand-up act as a forum to tell his side of the story.
He initially did temp work to sustain his writing, and tried out as a stand-up comedian. Times, Sunday Times
For example, female stand-up professionals were miffed that they were neither recognized in the category breakdowns, nor in the nominations.
Years ago, after a stand-up row with a queue-jumping Bulgarian peasant in a post office in Bulgaria, I realised that queues are not important in many other countries.
Some people have advanced radical solutions to the sitting syndrome: replace your sit-down desk with a stand-up desk, and equip this with a slow treadmill so that you walk while you work.
Here are a few outrageous jokes from the feistiest female stand-ups, with a shock rating out of five. The Sun
This sophisticated stand-up comedy confronts and surprises audiences by shattering myths about deafness and cross-cultural love.
Lee, meanwhile, welcomed the new millennium by giving up stand-up entirely.

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