In stand-up comedy, the feedback of the audience is instant and crucial for the comedian's act. Audiences expect a stand-up comic to provide a steady stream of laughs, and a performer is always under ...
Main articles: Literary genre and List of literary genresA literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or even (as in the case ...
Comedy may be divided into multiple genres based on the source of humour, the method of delivery, and the context in which it is delivered latrin which is gone everyday.These classifications overlap, ...
In a televised exchange with then-CNN personality Tucker Carlson on Crossfire on October 15, 2004, Stewart criticized the state of television journalism and pleaded with the show's hosts to "stop hurt ...
Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz in New York City. Jon's mother, Marian (née Laskin), is an educational consultant and teacher. His father, Donald Leibowitz, was a professor of physics at T ...
He was born on May 5 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Peabody High School, where his friend Malcolm Cowley was also a student. While he attended Ohio University to pursue courses in Fre ...
Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval outfitters. His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, where he rema ...
Thomas Hobbes was born at Westport, now part of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, on 5 April 1588. Born prematurely when his mother heard of the coming invasion of the Spanish Armada, Hobbes later rep ...
In absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual's search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the universe. As beings looking for meaning in a mea ...
Single: Disco Matilda (Big Time Records BZS-312) (1979)Disco MatildaDisco Matilda (Inst.)Album: The Dame Edna Party Experience (Epic Records, 1988)Bad / When Will I Be Famous / Layla (Alias Edna) / I ...
While Dame Edna is a fictitious character whose life story has been entirely created by Barry Humphries, so complete is her identity as an individual that Macmillan published My Gorgeous Life, Edna's ...
Dame Edna Everage is undoubtedly one of the most enduring Australian comic characters of all time, and one of the longest-lived comedic characterisations ever devised. Originally conceived in 1956, Ed ...
Humphries was born in the suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Louisa and Eric Humphries, a construction manager. His grandfather was an immigrant to Australia from Manchester, ...
In 2004, Microsoft UK commissioned two 20-minute corporate videos featuring David Brent being interviewed by Jeff (Stephen Merchant), a Microsoft employee who becomes increasingly exasperated by Brent ...
The show is based in a branch of the large fictitious paper company Wernham Hogg (where "life is stationery"), in the Slough Trading Estate in England. Slough is a town immortalised for its lack of ap ...
