Sentence examples for stand-up entertainer from inspiring English sources

Mr. Feinstein has developed into such an accomplished stand-up entertainer that if it were 1965, he would be the host of his own network variety show.

The other is a stand-up entertainer who wisecracks, mugs, does comic shtick and has recently begun presenting himself as a finger-snapping swing vocalist in a post-Sinatra style.

Although Mr. Feinstein continues to gain in self-assurance as an uptempo band singer, he is still the most compelling when he exchanges the role of stand-up entertainer for intimate crooner and accompanies himself on the piano.

STEPHEN HOLDEN MICHAEL FEINSTEIN "The Sinatra Project, Vol. II: The Good Life" (Concord Jazz) Three years ago Michael Feinstein, the piano-bar crooner turned stand-up entertainer jumped ship, so to speak, with his album "The Sinatra Project," in which he became an acolyte of Ol' Blue Eyes after two decades in the Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire camps.

A far-reaching mixture of esoterica and standards that features a six-member band and three backup vocalists, it is a perfect showcase for Mr. Feinstein to balance his two sides: a gregarious stand-up entertainer dispensing shtick and an intimate crooner wistfully dreaming out loud.

As usual, the singer alternates between being a stand-up entertainer fronting a band and being a crooning pianist, and in his dreamy renditions of "My Romance," "My Funny Valentine" and "How Deep Is the Ocean," the voice and keyboard melt together.

Since then he has evolved into a stand-up concert entertainer whose singing has grown in stamina, vocal range and rhythmic freedom.

The longtime stand-up comic and entertainer told HuffPost that the two missed out on the chance to do the "only thing they have to do". .

Cedric the Entertainer is back with his always raw brand of comedy for his new Netflix stand-up special, "Cedric the Entertainer: Live from the Ville".

In one television spot, stand-up comedian Cedric The Entertainer is seen chatting and dancing with the purple shake lover and the masked burger snatcher.

Indeed, America trusted Carson to come into their living room night after night for three decades, introducing audiences to new actors, stand-up comedians and other entertainers.