Sentence examples for taking up comedy from inspiring English sources

He hasn't painted seriously since taking up comedy.

A childhood Blackadder fan who decided aged seven on a career in comedy, Hodgson is already a veteran of nine Edinburgh fringes, after taking up comedy at Oxford University.

The Insti2ute, Pleasance Theatre, N7, Sat to 31 Oct; Ross Lee's Scream House, Leicester Square Theatre, WC2, Thu Despite hailing from Newcastle and working in the merchant navy prior to taking up comedy, Cook's no tough guy: what he offers instead is a mixture of laddish daftness and genuine warmth.

Born into an Italian-American family in Brooklyn in 1958, Pepitone took up comedy after a nervous breakdown in college.

Standup and writer Michael Che only took up comedy four years ago and is already one of the brightest names on the New York scene.

Fortunately, German comic Henning Wehn has never had to translate an existing act into English – like Palmieri, he took up comedy after moving to the UK.

Another: "I never made 'Who's Who,' but I'm featured in 'What's That?' " Ms. Diller, a 37-year-old homemaker when she took up comedy, mined her domestic life for material, assuring audiences that she fed Fang and her kids garbage soup and buried her ironing in the backyard.

I took up comedy as a dare Six years ago, I was a dilettante knocking out advertising copy, and one of the guys in the agency said, "You're funny, why don't you try stand-up?" I'd never thought about stand-up before, it played no part in my life, but I found a comedy club round the corner, phoned and went and did a spot two weeks later.

He only took up comedy at the age of 22, but in the past decade he's managed to conquer South Africa – becoming the biggest standup in the country and receiving his own TV show – as well as being booked for mainstream shows in the UK such as Live At The Apollo.

Hill has three daughters with his wife, Magda, and admits a nervousness about them taking up the comedy game.

A year later, she took up the comedy full time, establishing the Gilded Balloon as a showcase for some of the best and most original live comedy.