In Qatar, a few young comics have come together to form SUCQ (an acronym for Stand Up Comedy Qatar).
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She spent time focusing on how she could conquer fears like swimming with sharks, surviving stand up comedy, and reflecting on her relationship with her boyfriend.
To let off steam, she turns her real-life frustrations into laughs at a stand-up comedy club.
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to produce the first stand-up comedy show post-Egyptian revolution.
Our two-woman stand up science comedy show, the Comedy Research Project, has so far had promising results.
"You did stand-up comedy a few years ago, " Simon offered out of nowhere.
As an Egyptian-American comedian, I had the opportunity to be part of the rise of stand-up comedy in the region.
She took the stage at San Francisco's Purple Onion Club on March 7, 1955, for her first stand-up comedy performance.
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No one asks for scripts any longer, because the people in power have apparently become more comfortable with stand-up comedy.
In an after-dinner speech Tuesday to U.S. businessmen, Lee Hsien Loong made a couple of jokes that could pass for stand-up comedy.
America suffered from an overdose of stand-up comedy in the early 1990s.
The remainder of tickets sold - around 1.6m - were for "other entertainment" - including opera, dance, one-man shows, revues and stand-up comedy.
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The minor league stand-up comedy routine during Mr. Gupta's insider-trading trial has featured Judge Rakoff and Mr. Naftalis, who have been friends for decades.
Her father first found fame in the late 1970s with his own form of stand-up comedy and became a household name in Britain with his own series.
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And the pervading feel-good factor of humour suggests that stand-up comedy may well survive in a global climate that provides so little else to laugh at.
Screenwriters Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw both come from a background of stand-up comedy and it shows in their very witty -- and at time outrageous -- script.
"He has a Marmite effect, you either love him or you hate him, " says Dr Oliver Double, who lectures in stand-up comedy at Kent University and is a former circuit comedian.
Borbay, a shaggy bleached-blond 31-year old with an eye for haberdashery, came to the art world full-time two years ago after stints in graphic design, reality television, advertising and stand-up comedy.
At first the oddly delightful sensibility of "The Hammer" seems to derive from stand-up comedy -- lots of free-form riffs on topics ranging from toggle bolts to the La Brea tar pits.
She officially retired from stand-up comedy in 2002.
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Listed on the New York stock exchange since 2006, its founder Michael Yu (also known as Yu Minhong), became a multi-millionaire on the back of his blend of rote learning exercises, stand-up comedy and motivational speeches.
He says he's made hundreds of stand-up comedy appearances a year, including at a New York City comedy club where he has performed since 1997, on network television, as a warm-up for Comedy Central audiences and in film.
Resisting the temptation to simply request "real", I opted instead for - and here's a look into my mind - a brunette, aged 25, who was well-educated and with a passing interest in stand-up comedy, film and, since we're dreaming, football.
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He spent the next couple of months going to live comedy gigs and studying comedians like Bill Hicks on YouTube before signing up to do a live stand-up performance himself at a local comedy club.
As audiences tired of predictable routines, television networks dropped stand-up acts and comedy clubs shut down.
While TV and film remain the primary routes to top money in comedy, stand-up has become a lucrative alternative.
In no small part because of the influence of Second City, an evening of humour in Chicago is much more likely to come from improv and sketch comedy than stand-up.
Just the other day I watched comedian Patrice O'Neal's stand-up act late one night on Comedy Central.
The company's catalog contains hundreds of titles including the Peabody Award-winning children's program Classical Baby, provocative programs from HBO Documentary Films including When the Levees Broke, innovative movies from HBO Films including Temple Grandin, and comedy specials featuring stand-up performers like Chris Rock and Ricky Gervais.
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Until 3 July, the Festival Grand Rire de Quebec, or Laughs for All Festival, will hold nonstop comedy events, from stand-up shows to tributes to comedic greats like Charlie Chaplin to improv acts.
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