comedian
C519
concept
A comedian is a performer who creates and delivers humorous content, often through stand-up, sketches, or other media, to entertain and provoke laughter from an audience.
All labels observed (49)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| comedian canonical | 1,966 |
| stand-up comedian | 397 |
| radio personality | 255 |
| American comedian | 97 |
| vaudeville performer | 77 |
| Monty Python sketch | 18 |
| political satirist | 14 |
| British comedian | 12 |
| Filipino comedian | 5 |
| film comedian | 5 |
| slapstick comedian | 5 |
| jester | 4 |
| vaudeville comedian | 4 |
| comedic persona | 3 |
| comedienne | 3 |
| member of Monty Python | 3 |
| parodist | 3 |
| African-American comedian | 2 |
| comedy actor | 2 |
| musical comedian | 2 |
| sketch comedian | 2 |
| stage comedian | 2 |
| television comedian | 2 |
| American comedic actor | 1 |
| American stand-up comedian | 1 |
| Australian comedian | 1 |
| Belgian comedian | 1 |
| Canadian comedian | 1 |
| Chinese xiangsheng performer | 1 |
| Comedic persona | 1 |
| Egyptian comedian | 1 |
| English comedian | 1 |
| Indian comedian | 1 |
| Japanese comedians | 1 |
| South African comedian | 1 |
| Tamil comedian | 1 |
| alternative comedian | 1 |
| comedian character | 1 |
| comedian filmmaker | 1 |
| comedic alter ego | 1 |
| comedy double act | 1 |
| comic entertainer | 1 |
| comic gentleman | 1 |
| country comedian | 1 |
| member of comedy group | 1 |
| screen comedian | 1 |
| stand-up comedian persona | 1 |
| stand-up comedy persona | 1 |
| television comedy persona | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: comedian
Generated description
A comedian is a performer who creates and delivers humorous content, often through stand-up, sketches, or other media, to entertain and provoke laughter from an audience.
Instances (2,610)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
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Dominic Felix Amici
surface form:
Don Ameche
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Dominic
surface form:
Don Ameche
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— |
| Dan Levy | — |
| Rebecca Front | — |
| John Mulaney | stand-up comedian |
| Max Ehrlich | — |
| The Fool | jester |
| Matthew Johns | radio personality |
| Richard Anthony Marin | — |
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Candy
surface form:
John Candy
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— |
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Sir David Paradine Frost
surface form:
David Frost
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The Foy Family
surface form:
Eddie Foy
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vaudeville performer |
| Charley Foy | vaudeville performer |
| Hugh Grant | — |
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North Shore High School
surface form:
Kate McKinnon
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— |
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John
surface form:
John Candy
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— |
| Christopher Candy | — |
| Tom Joyner | radio personality |
| Maureen Reagan | radio personality |
| Nora Dunn | — |
| James Buckley | — |
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Humphries
surface form:
Barry Humphries
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— |
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Rosalind Tong
surface form:
Barry Humphries
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— |
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Kelsey
surface form:
Kelsey Grammer
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— |
| Rowan Atkinson | — |
| Dax Randall Shepard | — |
| Eric Banadinović | — |
| Jerry Stiller | — |
| Jonathan Southworth Ritter | — |
| Lil' Mo | radio personality |
| B-Real | radio personality |
| DJ Green Lantern | radio personality |
| Lil Duval | stand-up comedian |
| Tom Arnold | stand-up comedian |
| Godfrey | stand-up comedian |
| D.L. Hughley | stand-up comedian |
| John Witherspoon | — |
| John Barry Humphries | — |
| Graham Kennedy | — |
| Joe Cornish | — |
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Howerton
surface form:
Glenn Howerton
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— |
| Rob Corddry | — |
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Beverly Theater, Los Angeles
surface form:
George Carlin
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stand-up comedian |
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Sports
surface form:
George Carlin
|
stand-up comedian |
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Ice Box Man
surface form:
"Weird Al" Yankovic
|
stand-up comedian |
| David Koechner | — |
| Adam Scott | — |
| DeRay Davis | stand-up comedian |
| Vicki Lawrence | — |
| Beverly Archer | American comedian |