comedian (person) by Zach - Everything2.com

The dictionary says a comedian is (I'm paraphrasing here..):

Someone who gets paid to tell jokes or perform various comedy acts like juggling, magic, impersonations, ventriloquism, wearing a bag on their head and acting like an idiot, or pretty much anything that makes someone laugh; preferably at least the person who paid in the first place.
Someone who performs on stage or before a camera in something called a comedy which is a kind of show that at least made the guy who wrote it laugh if nobody else.
Someone who writes stuff that at least he thinks is funny.
Someone who tries to be amusing in one way or another, whether he's successful or financially lucrative at it or not.
A clown. Someone who dresses up in a flashy costume with makeup on their face and pretends to be someone they're not in order to make people laugh.

So by the preceding definitions, that means I'm a comedian. I think I'm funny occasionally. I've had people tell me I'm funny. I've even been paid to be funny. However, I'm not paid to be funny now, which probably means I'm not that funny, but anyway I'm probably a comedian. This probably means you are too. If you've ever told a joke to somebody and they laughed, you're a comedian. If you laughed, you could still be a comedian, but people will laugh at you when you call yourself one, which I guess would then make you a comedian. So everybody's a comedian. Now I couldn't list everybody in the following list of comedians on Everything2. Well I could but it would take a very long time. And I gotta pee soon so I'm just gonna stop with the list I got. I mean, Keanu Reeves makes me laugh but that's usually when I notice he's actually trying to act. I don't think that counts. So I'm not gonna list everybody anyway. So anyway the list below consists of every comedian I could think of, and a few that I couldn't. I know I probably forgot to include your favorite comedians, and if that's the case just let me know and I'll add him or her.. or it to the list. Some of the people listed below actually have write-ups here at E2. Those who don't? Well obviously they weren't funny enough to anyone in here to get a write-up, but you can do something about that if you know who they are.

Comedians: International Treasures

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Monty Python	Dylan Moran	Andy Kaufman	Tommy Cooper
Emo Philips	Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch	Fossils were put there by God	stand up comedy
Ernie Kovacs	prop comic	Jon Stewart	Patron Saint
Jerry Seinfeld	reframing	Broon	Keepers of Lists
Wil Anderson	Freddie Prinze	Rip Taylor	Derek and Clive
Billy Connolly	Sam Kinison	John Rocker	Steven Wright