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RELATED WORD : standup comedian

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun comedian has 2 senses

• comedian(n = noun.person) comic - a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts; Array
has particulars: buffoon, clown, goof, goofball, merry andrew, comedienne, gagman, standup comedian, joker, jokester, top banana, benjamin kubelsky, benny, jack benny, burns, george burns, nathan birnbaum, caesar, sid caesar, sidney caesar, chaplin, charlie chaplin, sir charles spencer chaplin, durante, jimmy durante, fields, w. c. fields, william claude dukenfield, hardy, oliver hardy, alfred hawthorne, benny hill, hill, bob hope, hope, leslie townes hope, buster keaton, joseph francis keaton, keaton, harry lauder, lauder, sir harry maclennan lauder, arthur stanley jefferson laurel, laurel, stan laurel, martin, steve martin, groucho, julius marx, marx, chico, leonard marx, marx, arthur marx, harpo, marx, herbert marx, marx, zeppo, dudley moore, dudley stuart john moore, moore
is a kind of performer, performing artist

• comedian(n = noun.person) Array - an actor in a comedy; Array
is a kind of actor, histrion, player, role player, thespian
has particulars: comedienne

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THESAURUS

comedian

banana, buffoon, burlesquer, card, caricaturist, choreographer, clown, comedienne, comic, cutup, dramatist, dramatizer, dramaturge, droll, epigrammatist, farcer, farceur, farceuse, farcist, fool, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, genteel comedian, hoke comic, humorist, ironist, jester, joke writer, joker, jokesmith, jokester, lampooner, librettist, light comedian, low comedian, madcap, melodramatist, mimographer, monodramatist, parodist, play doctor, play fixer, playwright, playwriter, prankster, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, satirist, scenario writer, scenarioist, scenarist, scriptwriter, slapstick comedian, stand-up comic, tragedian, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, zany

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comedian

The Drama

N the drama, the stage, the theater, the play, film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography, theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis, play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame, melodrama, melodrame, comidie larmoyante, sensation drama, tragicomedy, farcical-comedy, monodrame monologue, duologue trilogy, charade, proverbs, mystery, miracle play, musical, musical comedy, western, horse opera, flick, spy film, love story, adventure film, documentary, nature film, pornographic film, smoker, skin flick, X-rated film, act, scene, tableau, induction, introduction, prologue, epilogue, libretto, performance, representation, mise en scene, stagery, jeu de theatre, acting, gesture, impersonation, stage business, gag, buffoonery, light comedy, genteel comedy, low comedy, theater, playhouse, opera house, house, music hall, amphitheater, circus, hippodrome, theater in the round, puppet show, fantoccini, marionettes, Punch and Judy, auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery, parquet, greenroom, coulisses, flat, drop, drop scene, wing, screen, side scene, transformation scene, curtain, act drop, proscenium, stage, scene, scenery, the boards, trap, mezzanine floor, flies, floats, footlights, offstage, orchestra, theatrical costume, theatrical properties, movie studio, back lot, on location, part, role, character, dramatis personae, repertoire, actor, thespian, player, method actor, stage player, strolling player, stager, performer, mime, mimer, artists, comedian, tragedian, tragedienne, Roscius, star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol, supporting actor, supporting cast, ham, hamfatter, masker, pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine, punchinello, pulcinello, pulcinella, extra, bit- player, walk-on role, cameo appearance, mute, figurante, general utility, super, supernumerary, company, first tragedian, prima donna, protagonist, jeune premier, debutant, debutante, light comedian, genteel comedian, low comedian, walking gentleman, amoroso, heavy father, ingenue, jeune veuve, mummer, guiser, guisard, gysart, masque, mountebank, Jack Pudding, tumbler, posture master, acrobat, contortionist, ballet dancer, ballet girl, chorus singer, coryphee danseuse, property man, costumier, machinist, prompter, call boy, manager, director, stage manager, acting manager, producer, entrepreneur, impresario, backer, investor, angel, dramatic author, dramatic writer, play writer, playwright, dramatist, mimographer, dramatic, theatric, theatrical, scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic, stagy, on the stage, on the boards, on film, before the floats, before an audience, behind the scenes, fere totus mundus exercet histrionem, suit the action to the word, the word to the action, the play's the thing, to wake the soul by tender strokes of art.

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