Sentence examples for beloved comedian from inspiring English sources

(Angelo) ★ Artie Lange (Saturday) This beloved comedian and radio host (of the syndicated "The Nick and Artie Show") takes Gotham's stage for one night only.

Rik Mayall died this morning at the age of 56, a beloved comedian and actor known for, among other things, his penchant for profanity.

"One day Fatty had been their most beloved comedian next to Chaplin, the next they were screaming for his head," Gloria Swanson wrote of her old friend in her autobiography.

Neither do they see, on national television, a beloved comedian, Barry Humphries, demonstrating the alarm with which he would react to waking up next to her in a motel.

Jimmy Durante, the beloved comedian from the Lower East Side with the gigantic nose and the gravelly voice, took his vaudeville routines to radio, and he is the first person known to have made the joke.

Abbott used Shakespeare's story of the comic complications afforded by two sets of identical twins as a showcase for ribaldry and clowning from, among others, the beloved comedian Jimmy Savo.

Chris Rock has become one of the best and most beloved comedians in the country by mastering one specific thing.

(Dave Kehr Danny Kaye Centennial Celebrationn (Saturday) Born David Daniel Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1913, Danny Kaye became one of the postwar era's most beloved comedians, creating a personal style that blended a gift for aggressive verbal nonsense with a warm and gentle little-guy personality.

Not that there's reason to expect beloved comedians to wear haloes in real life; but the next time Harpo puts his thigh in the palm of a handshaker or opens his trench coat, I'll have an unwanted image in mind.

Our beloved comedians are often shocking, inappropriate, even brutal.

Or beloved comedians taking advantage of young women with the help of spiked drinks and a gullible public.