He is, after all, a professional stand-in.
Less experienced string players had professional stand partners to hide behind if necessary.
He is a filmmaker, a painter, a photographer, an experienced professional stand-up comedian.
Simon Evans is a professional stand-up comedian and writer, originally from Bedfordshire and now living in Brighton.
As a professional stand-up seducer (which even insult comics have to be), Mr. Rock fits the part effortlessly.
My colleague and food writer, Emma Sturgess, ever the professional, stood up to the challenge, consuming an In-N-Out burger in the final minutes of pre-airplane time.
Instead of prying into his soul, the filmmakers investigate his working conditions and offer a sort of backstage ethnographic study of the professional stand-up culture.
Kimmel has never been a professional stand-up comic; never stood behind a mike in a hundred smoky clubs and honed the skill of pacing a routine, drawing out a laugh.
One medical professional stood up in front of the panel and said that when her patients ask for help, "This is all I can tell them".
Psychologists Gil Greengross and Geoffrey Miller compared the personality traits of 31 professional stand-up comedians and nine amateur comedians against the personality traits of 10 humor writers and 400 college students.
