Editing Comedian (section)

===Stand-up===
{{Main|Stand-up comedy}}
[[File:Bob hope lackland afb.jpg|thumb|[[Bob Hope]] performing at Lackland Air Force Base in 1990|upright]]
Stand-up comedy is a comic [[monologue]] performed standing on a stage.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stand-up+comedy?s=t | title='stand-up comedy' definition|website=Dictionary.reference.com | access-date=2 December 2013}}</ref>  [[Bob Hope]] became the most popular stand-up comedian of the 20th century in a nearly 80-year career that included numerous [[comedy film]] roles over a five-decade span in radio, television, and entertaining armed-service troops through the [[USO]].  Other noted stand-up comedians include [[Lenny Bruce]], [[Billy Connolly]], [[George Carlin]], [[Richard Pryor]], [[Victoria Wood]], [[Joan Rivers]], [[Whoopi Goldberg]] and [[Jo Brand]].