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Charley Case (August 27, 1858 – November 26, 1916) [1] was an American vaudeville performance artist who delivered the first known example of stand-up comedy in the late 1880s, delivering humorous monologues directly to the audience while standing in one spot without props or costumes. He is credited with creating the term "punchline" as he ...
Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film [5] directed by Rob Reiner. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon in 1959. Stand by Me stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell as four boys who set out on a journey to find the dead body of a ...
Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 – c. January 11, 2004) was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist.He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Stand by Me is a compilation album by American musician Ben E. King. ... 1960 in New York. Tracks 2 and 11 were recorded on May 19 ...
Steve Martin got monologue duties for “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” on Sunday evening, “traditionally the weakest part of the show” he cracked. Martin was the first of many, many ...
Stephen Colbert and his wife, Evelyn McGee, at the Time 100 most influential people awards for 2006. On April 29, 2006, American comedian Stephen Colbert appeared as the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which was held in Washington, D.C., at the Hilton Washington hotel.
Stand-up comedy has roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century, including vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, concert saloons, freak shows, variety shows, medicine shows, American burlesque, English music halls, circus clown antics, Chautauqua, and humorist monologues like those delivered by Mark Twain in his first (1866 ...
The treatment, New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2007. ISBN 9780822222026, OCLC 163587396; A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer New York: Villard, 2007. ISBN 9780345497918, OCLC 862089179; I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World New York: Villard Trade Paperbacks, 2010. ISBN 9780812970166, OCLC 958697162