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
Marla Gibbs
Louise Lasser
Alex Karpovsky
Hugh Dennis
Russell Brand
Ricky Gervais
Yoshimoto comedians Japanese comedians
Roy Atwell
Jonas Gardell
George Alexander Stevens
Pat Harrington Jr.
Esther Anderson – LaWanda Page
surface form: LaWanda Page
Bubba Bexley – Don Bexley
surface form: Don Bexley
William Penn Adair Rogers vaudeville performer
Maung Thura
Rosie O'Donnell
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Guadalupe
surface form: Guadalupe Vélez
Stephen Glenn Martin
Robert Ben Garant
Charley Chase
Terence Graham Parry Jones
Martin Mull
George Segal
Andy Samberg
James Cannon
Eddie Collins
Bing Crosby radio personality
John C. Reilly
Patricia Price
surface form: Richard Pryor
American comedian
Stubby Kaye
Steve Carell
Marley Marl radio personality
Kabir Suman radio personality
Clinton Sparks radio personality
Thomas Jacob Black
Jim Carrey stand-up comedian
David Walliams
Lizzy Caplan
Judith Bowles
surface form: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Matt Lucas
Ewen MacIntosh
Goldie Hawn
Lenny Henry
Lee Mack stand-up comedian
Miranda Hart
Ed Byrne stand-up comedian
Fannie Flagg
Patrick John Quinn