[custom_adv] Karim Ghasemi Ashtiani (1323 - 1398) was a singer and stand-up comedian known professionally as Seyed Karim. After the revolution, he moved first to Dubai and then to England. [custom_adv] Stand-up comedy is a comedy performance and narrative craft whereby a comedian communicates to a live audience, speaking directly to them through a microphone. [custom_adv] The performer is commonly known as a comic, stand-up comic, comedian, comedienne, stand-up comedian, or simply a stand-up.Stand-up comedy is a dialogic monologue, or a grouping of humorous stories, jokes, and one-liners, typically called a shtick, routine, act, or set. [custom_adv] Stand-ups may fuse props, music, magic tricks, or ventriloquism. Stand-up comedians perform quasi-autobiographical and fictionalized extensions of their offstage selves. [custom_adv] Stand-up comedy can be performed in comedy clubs, comedy festivals, bars, pubs, nightclubs, colleges, theatres, niche locations, etc. Stand-up is also distributed commercially via live action, audio, streaming, etc. [custom_adv] It can take an amateur comedian about 10 years to perfect the technique needed to be a professional comedian;this is a constant process of learning through failure. [custom_adv] A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolish (as in slapstick), or employing prop comedy. [custom_adv] A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comedian.
