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Comedian in sentence

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Moonlighting as a stand-up comedian for the past eight years, I understand the importance of cultural competency, which I define as the ability to translate what you want someone else to know or be able to do into communication or experiences that they find relevant and engaging.
Back in 1980 when comedian Richard Pryor accidentally set himself on fire during a freebasing accident, I was in Los Angeles the day after it happened and then I was in Washington D.C. two days after that.
It's about how our brain is tricked into seeing a persistence of vision that creates a motion picture, and one of the things I had to do is, we — Sasha Baron Cohen is a very clever, very smart guy, comedian, wanted to basically do an homage to the kind of the Buster Keaton sort of slapstick things, and he wanted his leg brace to get caught on a moving train.
But I stand before you today not as a breakfast radio host, not as a comedian, but as someone who was, is, and always will be a mathematician.
And in the life that everyone sees, who I am is a friend, a son, a brother, a stand-up comedian and a teenager.
I have to tell you, it's very boring, but before I did yoga, I was a stand-up comedian who can't stand up.
One commenter even suggested that I add my disability to my credits: screenwriter, comedian, palsy.
For example, in addition to being an activist, I'm also a professional stand-up comedian.
And on the other side of the political spectrum, George H.W. Bush, number 41, the father, he has agreed to participate, and Nick Kroll, the comedian, and Dr. Oz, and many more to come.
Inspiration can often come from an unexpected place, and the fact that a Jewish comedian had done more to positively influence my worldview than my own extremist father is not lost on me.
But, you know, there's a comedian who said, "Well, who's telling me that consciousness is so good and so important?
And his retort to Kleon in 425 BC still resonates today: “I’m a comedian, so I’ll speak about justice, no matter how hard it sounds to your ears.”
He doesn't have a degree yet, but he wants to be a comedian.
Because you never know, just because you're funny at home, does not make you a comedian, right?
But Jerry did, and that's a comedian's job.
Love is the longing to find a soulmate who'll make us feel whole again, or, at least, that's what Plato believed a drunken comedian would say at a party.
And I'm also a social justice comedian, something that I insist is an actual job.
As a social justice comedian, it's my goal to convert these haters, because they hate a lot of things, which leads to negative outcomes, like racism, violence and Ted Nugent.
And in that moment of openness, a good social justice comedian can stick in a whole bunch of information, and if they're really skilled, a rectal exam.
So myself and fellow comedian Dean Obeidallah decided to launch the fighting-bigotry- with-delightful-posters campaign.
For example, myself and fellow comedian Lee Camp went to the Cayman Islands to investigate offshore banking.
SW: She's a comedian.
I like to kick things off with a joke because I'm a comedian.
Now there's two things you know about me already: my name's Hannah and I'm a comedian.
So it seems a bit of a contradiction, then, that someone like me, who is so bad at the chat, could be something like a stand-up comedian.
Like, really launched it, to the point where after quitting comedy, I became the most talked-about comedian on the planet, because apparently, I'm even worse at making retirement plans than I am at speaking my own mind.
Now that joke uses my favorite trick of the comedian trade, the rule of three, whereby you make a statement and then back that statement up with a list.
But you need more than just jokes to be able to cut it as a professional comedian.
In 1995, during the Second Intifada, Palestinian Intifada, I was in London, and I went to see the great Jewish comedian Jackie Mason.
I used to love the comedian Steven Wright.
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