Comedians, Mr. Maron said, are temperamentally complicated — otherwise they probably wouldn't be comedians.
If the N.F.L. were the Improv Club, Ryan would be the comedian, Belichick the brick wall.
And we thought one thing would be a comedian interviewing a terrorist".
Clinton's TV Face Misses Him DARRELL HAMMOND, who lampooned the 42nd president on "Saturday Night Live" in the 1990's and 2000, worried that he would be a comedian without a politician after BILL CLINTON left office.
One thing that could help salvage this monstrosity would be casting comedian Patti Harrison (and her pal, comedy writer Mitra Jouhari) as backup dancer cats, but currently they're on the outside looking in.
In the season finale, Siggy Flicker, the Cupid avatar of this dating show, aims her arrows at the image-obsessed Lucia and the would-be comedian Mike.
In the mid-1960s, according to Harp's brother Hillis, Richard and Wilbur crashed for weeks at the same apartment in Chicago, the would-be comedian bunking with the would-be cosmetologist.
Since he revealed this trick to a would-be comedian years ago, "Seinfeld's Productivity Secret" has achieved cult status online: there are at least three apps and one website dedicated to helping people emulate it.
But Mr. Palombella, whose placid persistence is a little like that of Rupert Pupkin, the would-be comedian played by Robert De Niro in "The King of Comedy," has never let that slow him down.
Compare that with clips that soon surfaced on "Entertainment Tonight" of Mr. Rockwell (who was born Richard Balkey and invented Rick Rockwell as his stage name) wearing a black-and-orange tigerish jogging suit and skipping antically across a stage during his days as a would-be comedian, or of Mr. Sensitive making Jerry Lewis faces at the camera.
