Sentence examples for a comedians from inspiring English sources
Armstrong strongly defended a comedians' right – obligation, indeed – to offend in the pursuit of funny.
It's a comedians' favourites too for its laidback vibe, small venues - often tucked in the cosy backrooms of local pubs - and for the Irish craic.
("Sit down or I'll throw a noose around the place and hang the whole building," says a judge to an unruly courtroom.) But such lines stand out as they might at a comedians' roast.
The excellent website Such Small Portions has released a handy book to coincide with this year's fringe: it's called Secret Edinburgh: A Comedians' Guide to the City, and it's full of personal tips about where to drink, eat and escape.
In the Athens of Demosthenes, there was a comedians' club called the Group of Sixty, which met in the temple of Heracles to trade wisecracks, and it is said that Philip of Macedon paid handsomely to have their jokes written down; but the volume, if it ever existed, has been lost.
This is a society where hecklers disrupt a comedians act and then are shocked at what comes out of that comics mouth!
Shortly after trashing a show by Miles Jupp, I found myself paired with him in a comedians-versus-critics golf match in Edinburgh.
