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Recent Examples of comedienneChoi is a talented comedienne, so some of her too-drunk drama scenes are entertainingly funny, but at the same time her character’s self-destructive tendencies are also heartbreaking.—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 But, of course, seeing one of our best musical comediennes so deliciously live out the maxim that all is vanity is especially a treat for Hilty heads who’ve longed to see her in a Broadway production that lives up to the title of her former TV series.—Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025 On the last day of the season, when the apprentices had been winnowed from 16 to two, then-emcee Donald Trump fired Annie on national television in favor of the comedienne Joan Rivers.—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025 Like other contemporary comediennes of chaos and discomfort (Gerwig, Lena Dunham, Ilana Glazer, Jenny Slate), Victor shows us a woman who uses humor to dodge and deflect — to avoid tangling with life’s trickier moments and tougher realities.—Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for comedienne
The comedian, who performed on the sketch show from 2008 until 2017, offered his two cents on the recent cast shakeup during an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
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Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
The experience of working alongside his parents helped shape Ben as an actor and comedian.
The Harvard jokesters’ ad noted that a $10 million reward is being offered for the return of the 13 missing masterpieces that were taken from the Boston museum 35 years ago.
Beverly Hills Estate’s Rayni Williams proved particularly adept at guessing the correct agents, though she was occasionally drowned out by the good-natured ribbing of jokesters Aaron Kirman and Matt Altman.
The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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California Legislature took aim at speeding up home building.
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