stand-up [
'stænd`ʌp]
a. 站立的, 直立的
stand-up[ adj ]
requiring a standing position
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a stand-up bara stand-up comic
- Comedy makes a rare appearance in this year's Academy Awards, with stand-up comic Robin Williams vying with four dramatic performers for the prize as best actor.
- "I'm not entirely sure what it is," he said. "It's great fun to watch Bill Cosby do stand-up comedy, but nothing happens; they have no problems.
- Macchio's career began in movies, in "Up the Academy" in 1980. "I've never done stand-up comedy, not outside of my own house.
- Zipper fronts and pockets, stand-up decollete or military collars, deep V decolletes - often laced up - gave the clothes terrific cachet.
- Funniest stand-up comic, male _ Robin Williams.
- One night last week students held a talent show, including serenaders and an amateur stand-up comic.
- Six comics take evening classes in stand-up comedy from old comic Eddie Waters; they do their acts, for an outside judge, before a northern working-men's club audience; and afterwards they hear the results.
- Rodriguez, a stand-up comic, delivers the one-liners with professional aplomb.
- "Green Card" opens with Jesse Borrego as a stand-up comedian specializing in racial-insult remarks.
- White, scalloped lace circled its stand-up collar.
- Jokes come faster and tougher than they did a year ago, to match the sharper-edged stand-up comics of the West.
- Seinfeld is basically playing himself, a stand-up comedian named Jerry who is a bachelor.
- Martin said he adopted his trademark white suit when he was doing stand-up comedy to get noticed so he could climb to the top of the marquee.
- As the footpad who referees their rows - the film's US title was The Ref - stand-up comic Dennis Leary looks as if he wished he had never sat down in his Disney actor's chair.
- Didja hear the one about the cop who tried a little stand-up comedy routine before giving a motorist a speeding ticket? A Montana teen-ager wants you to.
- In fact, he insisted that the Comedy Channel will not be "the stand-up channel." "While there certainly will be some stand-up comedy, we hope to be associated with a more human, open and relaxed kind of comedy.
- In fact, he insisted that the Comedy Channel will not be "the stand-up channel." "While there certainly will be some stand-up comedy, we hope to be associated with a more human, open and relaxed kind of comedy.
- The play, at off-Broadway's Westside Arts Theater, is "Only Kidding!", set in the world of stand-up comedy.
- Shandling was a writer for television comedies before developing a stand-up routine of his own in the mid-1970s.
- Like "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," Emery has a live band, stand-up comedians and some audience participation (cards from the studio members).
- I called wheat farmers about what insecticide they were using." Lane did stand-up comedy with a partner.
- And Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge division is selling videocassettes of young stand-up comics' routines.
- Mike Warnke is one of a kind _ he's part evangelist and part stand-up comic.
- I never saw a stand-up German soldier until the POW stockade outside of Tunis many hundreds of miles west and several months later.
- Turbulence forced the stand-up comedian to deliver his 10-minute monologue sitting down.