Sentence examples for character comedians from inspiring English sources
"Please welcome … the great plague!" There aren't many character comedians who cast the Black Death among their dramatis personae.
However, you have to differentiate between stand-ups and character comedians – I don't think there are that many proper stand-up female comedians.
Speak Easy will air on BBC3 later in the year but on Tuesday and Wednesday she and the co-host Kurt Braunohler will do two free "work-in-progress" shows at the Jam House, in which they will interview the alter-egos of a host of character comedians.
Unlike other character comedians, O'Grady is as funny as his alter ego, which is why he has made such a successful transition from lippy Lily to a globetrotting travel presenter who owes little to the Michael Palin school of polite awe.
The urbane Horne was essentially straight man to a troupe of gifted character comedians, including Paddick, and, while Julian may have been Paddick's most famous role, he also scored as ageing juvenile Binkie Huckaback in Noel Cowardish parody sketches with Betty Marsden's Dame Celia Molestrangler.
And now The Front Page is back on Broadway, with Nathan Lane, John Slattery and John Goodman leading a cast filled with some of today's most flavorful character comedians.
Being a character comedian isn't everyone's idea of a dream job.
Farage, whom she pegs as a postmodern, subversive character comedian, is just one of her new targets.
Elsewhere, character comedian Lolly Adefope plays a grotto elf, and up-and-coming comic Joseph Morpurgo is at a school nativity.
At just 25 years old, the Bristol University graduate is already a character comedian to watch, a Steve Coogan in the making, even.
She lived as a woman in San Francisco 15 years ago for five months but went back in the closet when she started gaining recognition as character comedian Will Franken.
