It's impossible to say how he will be best remembered: writer, stand-up, actor, presenter - or flash-in-the-pan?
"The thing that distinguishes him the most and endears me to him is that he's a stand-up actor," said Mr. Macy.
"She's a likeably complicated anti-heroine," remarked Christian House in the Independent on Sunday of the same character: "Martin is a celebrated polymath: stand-up, actor, playwright and bluegrass-band leader..
And its hero, played by the stand-up and actor Brett Goldstein, is more humdrum than heroic: he's happy to save the world but he'd rather get on with rescuing his love life.
Mr. Frum and his fellow guests -- Farai Chideya, an author who writes about race in America, and Richard Belzer, a stand-up and actor on "Law and Order: S.V.U" -- formed the standard mix of right, left, show biz.
Sandy Baron, the stand-up comic, actor and songwriter perhaps best known in recent years for his recurring role on "Seinfeld" as Jack Klompus, the nemesis of Seinfeld's father, Morty, died on Jan . 21at a nursing home in Los Angeles.
As stand-up comic, actor, sketch artist, writer and director he made steady progress over a decade before directing his first truly achieved film Annie Hall (1977), a box-office triumph saved from disaster by a brilliant editor.
The family sitcom drew on Bill Cosby's many creative endeavours, as a stand-up comedian, actor, writer and musician.
The stand-up comedian, actor, and screenwriter first got his start in show business as a bodyguard for his brother, Eddie Murphy.
He collaborated with writer-director Andrew Bergman and stand-up comedian-actor Richard Pryor, among others, on the script for this uninhibited burlesque of the western genre, the comic targets of which ranged from racial prejudice to flatulence.
Career 1999-present: stand-up comedian; 2006: actor in BBC sitcom, Extras; 1993-1997: actor in BBC drama series, Grange Hill.
