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Claire Porter (born December 23, 1942) [1] is an American choreographer/comedian known for blending comedic monologues with dance movement. She is also an award-winning performer, author, and dance educator whose dance works, which she refers to as Portables, have been produced by various dance organizations, college theater programs and venues around the world.
Between 2014 and 2022, Eclair wrote seven series (36 episodes) of Little Lifetimes, [23] short monologues for female actors, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. As well as Eclair herself, actors including Dame Harriet Walter , Haydn Gwynne , Monica Dolan , Vicki Pepperdine , Imelda Staunton , Anita Dobson and Ruth Sheen have been the monologist .
Her 1985, self-produced comedy special Party of One was the first hour-long comedy special by a female comedian to appear on a cable television network. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Boosler had originally approached Showtime for funding, but wound-up funding the project herself after TV executives told her that no one would watch a woman do an hour of comedy.
He also has a YouTube show called "Jim Breuer's Breuniverse," which boasts over 350,000 subscribers. Adam Carolla is one of the comedic guests on Fox Nation's night of comedy.
"Women in Prison." Letterman offers to conduct a remote interview of Martha Stewart or Paris Hilton in jail, but the show then runs stock footage of women in prison having a food fight or rioting. Writers' Guild Strike. Another routine (usually a fake promotional announcement) is interrupted by the show's head writer Bill Scheft, who announces ...
Dave Chappelle delivers his 17-minute 'Saturday Night Live' monologue Welcome to 2025, Conehead nation! There’s so much Saturday Night Live content these days, I can barely keep up.
Stand-up comedy has roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century, including vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, concert saloons, freak shows, variety shows, medicine shows, American burlesque, English music halls, circus clown antics, Chautauqua, and humorist monologues like those delivered by Mark Twain in his first (1866 ...
Exceptional Monologues, published by Samuel French, New York (2009) The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2016, published by Smith And Kraus (2011) [42] 222 Comedy Monologues, published by Playscripts (2016) Contemporary Scenes For Twentysomethings, Applause Books (2017) [43] Contemporary Monologues For Twentysomethings, Applause Books (2018) [44]