Benjamin Jonson, or Johnson, was a comedianof the highest order.
He was not a man for a lady to fall in love with; but in 1668 Davenant pronounced him the truest comedian of his troop.
The Tatler praises the old comedian for the natural style of his acting, in which he avoided all exaggeration, and never added a word to his author's text, a vice with the younger actors of the time.
Macbeth was a Scottish comedianlike masel'--that's why I'd like to play him.
I was sure they'd had enough of me, and that the career of Harry Lauder as a comedian was about to come to an inglorious end.
The ways of a German dialect comedian would not serve the Shakesperian comedian nor would the physical accompaniment of the songs of the London Music Hall be proper for the lieder of Schubert.
The second, Desbarreaux, was a comedian of Toulouse, his principal role being that of valets.
The publicity given the matrimonial enterprises of De Wolf Hopper, through no fault of his advertising staff, seriously injured that capable comedian for a time.
Mrs. Asia Booth Clarke, wife of the distinguished and excellent comedian John S.
He is probably the only American comediannow left, excepting John S.
In New Orleans, at about that time, he first saw the then young comedian John E.
Setchell, a comedian who would have been as famous as he was funny had he but lived longer, presented a delightful example of spontaneous humour.
He was the lowcomedian in Joseph Foster's amphitheatre, where he sang Captain Kidd to fill up the "carpenter scenes," and where he sported amid the turbulent rhetorical billows of Timour the Tartar and The Terror of the Road.
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In the later days the comedian worked up his laugh into many laughs, by spacing all of his actions in the delivery of the blow.
Later on he added a singer and a serio-comic comedian and insisted that they eliminate from their acts everything that might offend the most fastidious.
In the early days of the use of the slap-stick, the comedian would have spanked the man at once, got one big laugh and have run off the stage in a comic chase.
Second, the comedianhad refused to answer the straight-man's question.
A clever comedian could do this twice, or even three times, varying the line each time.
Weber and Fields--before they made so much money that they retired to indulge in the pleasant pastime of producing shows--presented probably the most famous of all the sidewalk comedian slap-stick acts.
In the early days of the business the comedian was always distinguishable by his comedy clothes.
You're not going to get a comedian to do it, are you?
That's a new twist--getting a comedian to do a news report.
Mere Cardinal, who to entertain a neighbor had taken her to the Bobino theatre, recognized in the leading lady her own daughter, whom the first comedian had held under his control for three years.
La Peyrade was too great a comedian not to turn the humiliation he had just endured into a scene finale.
A young comedian was singing a pathetic ballad of a Dead Rat.
No one could deny that the man was a comedian of the first rank.
He had by careful and patient study rendered himself capable of assuming the highest place in his profession, and these studies, joined to his native genius, had made him famous throughout the country as the best low comedian of the day.
Pangloss, and Tobias Shortcut, he has won laurels that would make him a comedian of the first rank.
Playing engagements in various minor theaters of the United States, he at length secured a position as low comedian at Niblo's Garden in New York, where he won golden opinions from the critical audiences of the metropolis.
In 1857, he closed a most successful engagement as low comedian at the theater in Richmond, Virginia, and with that engagement ended his career as a stock actor.
The one-time pantomime comedian of an English company presenting a knockabout vaudeville act had made himself a multi-millionaire through clowning before a camera.
To the vision of the lookers-on in Rouen, quiet souls who hovered along the walls at merry-makings and cheerfully counted themselves spectators at the play, Crailey Gray held the centre of the stage and was the chief comedian of the place.
On Sunday the comedian had been invited to dinner at Mr. Hummel's, and one of his first anecdotes was concerning a jovial party which had taken place at the actress's.
The old comedian of the city theatre approached them as Pantaloon; he had at last found out the two influential ladies; he tripped up to them, made grotesque obeisances, and began to amuse her mamma with his gossip.
The comedian approached them elegantly dressed; as he drew near he made a dramatic salutation with his hand.
The comedian was astonished at the reproaches of his patroness.
The comedian stood on one side with his hand in his breast pocket, the godmother on the other with folded hands.
This excuse I say is defective; for a Comedian ought to imitate Life and Probability, no less than a Tragedian.
The Slaves in this Comedian are kept in order and civilly bred.
But then, being a glove manufacturer, he may have been kidding her, as the low comedian of our troupe observed.
The girlish heroine's luggage is also on the stage, and our comedian dashes over and finds his trousers in her bag.
He persists in 'booming' me as though I were an operatic nightingale with a poor voice or a variety comedian who was not funny.
A flourish of the pen, too, in the Tatler or Spectator, could send half the town to fight for vacant benches; and it was remarked that there was scarcely a comedian of merit who had not been recommended to the public in the former journal.
Congreve was delighted, and the salary of the ecstatic comedian was raised some few shillings a week.
I suppose Chapman, who directed the theatre at Richmond, was struck by the rich humour of the billiard-marker; but it was strange that a low comedian should make his debut in so level a part as Catesby.
In the plaintive and tender, this light comedian excelled even Booth, who used to say that Wilks lacked ear and not voice to make a great tragedian.
Such a babel there was when Hinpoha recognized the strange comedian and presented her to the others!
In 1964, after graduating from the university there, he was performing in a local nightclub revue, and comedian Orson Bean happened to be in the audience.
I never saw a goodcomedian in this business who hasn't made a comfortable living at it.
Asked whether he actually did make an obscene gesture, the short, stocky comedian with the broad New York Jewish accent shakes his curly head.
In those days, every comedian talked like an American; nobody talked like a Jew or a Puerto Rican or an Italian.
A soft-spoken, highly energetic man who bears a close physical resemblance to comedian Phil Silvers, Dr.
But these are only a few of the highlights of Shawn's career, as I discover in an interview with the 51-year-old comedian at his plush Upper East Side apartment.
He's Ireland's premier comedian and a magnificent dramatic actor too.
Jackie loves being a comedian because "I'm my own boss and I do what I like .
Your health is going," Boileau would say to him, "because the duties of a comedian exhaust you.
When he went up again, with Madame Moliere, into the room, the great comedian was dead.
A cigar man offered the comedian a cigar, saying that it was a new production.
A comedian in a French theatre once made a great hit out of a painful accident.
The boys by this time had ceased to regard him as other than one of themselves, never entertaining the slightest suspicion that it was the celebrated comedian they had among them.
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