Prop comedy is a comedy genre in which performers use humorous objects, or conventional objects in humorous ways. The stages and films term "prop", an...
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Carrot Top (category Prop comics)
American stand-up comedian and actor. He is widely known for his use of prop comedy. Thompson was born in Rockledge, Florida, and grew up in Cocoa. He is...
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Gallagher (comedian) (category Prop comics)
American comedian who became one of the most recognizable comedic performers of the 1980s for his prop and observational routine that included the signature...
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Comedian (redirect from Comedy performer)
amusing situations, or acting foolishly (as in slapstick), or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comedian...
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example, deadpan comics often fall into observational comedy, or into black comedy or blue comedy to contrast the morbidity, or offensiveness of the joke...
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speaking on stage or giving interviews. His shows include a mix of silent prop comedy, mime, and audience participation with songs interplayed throughout creating...
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still prominent within stand-up comedy and owns a comedy club at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, called Brad Garrett's Comedy Club, where he performs regularly...
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What. (category Stand-up comedy albums)
the show consists of musical comedy, prop comedy, miming, observational jokes, and the inversion of established comedy clichés. It received positive...
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(born March 18, 1952) is an American comedian. His live act consists of prop comedy as well as more traditional stand-up material. One of his best-known...
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (category 1960s American sketch comedy television series)
guests. Carson, in general, did not feature prop comedy acts (Carson was not averse to using prop comedy himself); such acts, with Gallagher being a prominent...
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Herman Show: Live Roxy Theatre, Pee-wee Herman uses a Green Weenie as prop comedy. In Rugrats, Angelica is seen squeezing a toy resembling Panic Pete....
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Jeff Dunham (section First Comedy Central specials)
relied on props. His experience at Catch a Rising Star in New York City served as a bitter confirmation of where ventriloquists stood in the comedic food chain...
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8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (category 2010s British comedy television series)
if they have a 'mascot', and the panelist will then indulge in some prop comedy, usually showing off a ludicrous or impractical object and telling a...
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The Big Comfy Couch (category 1990s Canadian comedy television series)
when broadcast in Latin America and Spain) is a Canadian children's prop comedy television series which is about a clown named Loonette and her doll...
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for the main prize in the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. He was co-creator and co-star of the BAFTA-nominated CBBC comedy Big Babies, and had a regular role...
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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. is Robert Coover's second novel, published in 1968. J. Henry Waugh is an accountant, albeit...
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (category 1980s American sketch comedy television series)
his own prop comedy-style humor. Hodgson referred to these jokes as "riffs", based both on the idea of musical riffs as well as the idea of comedy riffs...
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Otto Petersen (category American comedy troupes)
& Teller's Sin City Spectacular & Bullshit!, Full Frontal Comedy on Showtime, and Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen. Petersen performed with George at the Adult...
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King of the Hill (category 1990s American animated comedy television series)
Middle School. His characteristic lack of athleticism and interests in prop comedy and cooking are mystifying to his more conventional father but are encouraged...
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A prop replica is a collectible recreation of a movie or television prop that is intended to accurately re-create the item as it appeared in the original...
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Ernie Kovacs (category American comedy writers)
Kovacs's visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years after his death. Kovacs has been...
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2008 California Proposition 8 (redirect from Prop 8)
Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment intended to ban same-sex marriage;...
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Benjamín Rausseo (category Black comedy)
made Rausseo one of Venezuela's most successful stand-up comedians. Beyond comedy he was also a dare-devil and stunt performer in the television variety show...
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live crowd interaction. Stand-up comedy consists of one-liners, stories, observations, or shticks that can employ props, music, impressions, magic tricks...
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Improvisational theatre (redirect from Improvisational comedy)
theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created...
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Nina Conti (section Stand-up comedy)
Cats Does Countdown in Dictionary Corner and used Fabio, the show's regular prop guy, as a dummy.[citation needed] Conti's radio work includes Clare in the...
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was filmed on her 13th birthday and Cole was given three film props: a golden egg prop, a golden ticket, and an Everlasting Gobstopper. Cole has stated...
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Important Things with Demetri Martin (category 2000s American sketch comedy television series)
stand-up comedy were loosely related to the theme of the episode. The show was produced by Jon Stewart's Busboy Productions, and contained stand-up, prop comedy...
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Rubber chicken (category Prop design)
A rubber chicken is a prop used in comedy. The phrase is also used as a description for food served at speeches, conventions, and other large meetings...
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to his face. He even feigns an interest in Bobby's passions such as prop comedy and theatre. Hank is relieved when his Laotian-American neighbor Kahn...
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