Sentence examples for comic acts from inspiring English sources

Soon Hicks began burning the midnight oil, taping other comic acts on television.

After lunch the session faced a further complication: a scheduling clash with another of the comic acts at the Opera House, the Freddie Starr show.

The growing number of standups from non-English-speaking countries is one of the most exciting Fringe developments in recent years; one of them, Hans Teeuwen, remains among the best comic acts I've ever seen.

The only pair to be giving Johnson a run for his money are Hugh Porter and Chris Boardman at the cycling, who are turning into one of TV's best comic acts.

The Festival Fringe, with some 21,500 performances from more than 600 companies, is mainly theater, some of it good, some of it so-so and some of it horrendous, as well as a range of comic acts.

I was reared on a wide range of comic acts: at one end of the spectrum was Otto Waalkes, a modern version of the circus clown, with oversized dungarees, a bald pate, a trademark bunny-hop walk and goofy laughter.

No comic act has mapped the landscape of swotty, nerdy teendom like Kieran Hodgson.

McCririck was "seen by many as a comic act rather than a serious horse racing journalist," he added.

The Bay Area's eclectic landscape should operate along the same lines as many an effective comic act: with a good punch line set up to defy expectations.

Mr. Morley has been a South Jersey Shore institution since the old comic Mickey Shaughnessey saw him performing his quasi-musical comic act in Philadelphia in 1949.

And, although he neatly contrasts Singe's Les Dawson-like misogyny with his genuine need for affection, he promiscuously allows everyone to get in on the comic act.