comedian

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Related topics: Occupations, Performing

co·me·di·an /kəˈmiːdiən/ noun [countableC]

1 BOAPJOKEsomeone whose job is to tell jokes and make people laugh 喜剧演员，滑稽演员

He started as a stand-up comedian (=someone who tells jokes to an audience).

他最初是一名单口喜剧演员。

2 APsomeone who is amusing 有趣的人，滑稽的人

You’ll like Matt. He’s a real comedian.

你会喜欢马特的，他这人非常有趣。

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comedian• Maybe he ought to be trying to make it as a comedian.• He is so much more than a comedian.• Circus performers, magicians and comedians will round out the entertainment.• Dan was always trying to be the class comedian.• It wasn't just a matter of meeting an old comedian.• The whole world, the whole of society was there for the comedians to plunder.• The comedian was not officially notified until about an hour later.

stand-up comedian• That double standard was the underbelly of every easy laugh stand-up comedians got when they did hooker jokes.• Robert Benchley, a writer turned stand-up comedian who pioneered television-type comedy in his short films.

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