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

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
Mark Lowry
Lorne David Michaels
surface form: Lorne Michaels
Carole Penny Marshall
Jesse Ventura radio personality
Jon Heder
Jeff Foxworthy stand-up comedian
Elliott Reid
Helge Schneider
Grodin
surface form: Charles Grodin
Andy Breckman
Mystro Clark
Tasha Smith
Andy Richter
Gordon Kennedy
Ronald Cheng
Paul McDermott
Adele Astaire vaudeville performer
Rob Schneider stand-up comedian
Ike Barinholtz
Marion Grodin stand-up comedian
Ken Jeong
Susie Essman stand-up comedian
J. B. Smoove
Richard Lewis stand-up comedian
Phil LaMarr voices Jack
surface form: Phil LaMarr
Tom Scharpling
Broderick Stephen Harvey
Rosalind Russell
Angela Barnes stand-up comedian
Chris Redd
Rachel Bloom
Eric André
Amy Schumer stand-up comedian
Rehman
surface form: Shabana Rehman
Ivor Cutler radio personality
Mickey Rooney
Jeremy Hardy
Stretch Armstrong radio personality
DJ Spinderella radio personality
Nate Corddry
Michael Patrick Jann
Andy Borowitz
Paul Snodgrass
David Steinberg
Paul Walter Hauser
Francesca Hilton stand-up comedian
Christine Taylor
Pierino Ronald Como
surface form: Perry Como
radio personality
Crosby family
surface form: Bing Crosby
radio personality
Moe Howard