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Veteran comedienne Caroline Rhea made the tough gig of keeping the seen-it-all crowd engaged during dinner look easy, helping a live auction raise more than $160,000 from the audience of 750.
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Nicholas White, Variety, 13 May 2024
The women performers and artists of this time are so varied — comediennes, torch singers, political singers, grotesque dancers, naked dancers, dadaists and showgirls.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
Often, vaudeville routines co-starred zany Hebrew comediennes, who sassed and scolded their counterparts, rebuffing Abie Cohen’s advances in favor of Irishmen or Italians.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
The comedienne and television star spent much of her adolescence living in a small studio apartment in Hollywood, where her grandma would take her to the movies as a weekly treat.
—Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
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Nicholas White, Variety, 13 May 2024
The women performers and artists of this time are so varied — comediennes, torch singers, political singers, grotesque dancers, naked dancers, dadaists and showgirls.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
Often, vaudeville routines co-starred zany Hebrew comediennes, who sassed and scolded their counterparts, rebuffing Abie Cohen’s advances in favor of Irishmen or Italians.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
The comedienne and television star spent much of her adolescence living in a small studio apartment in Hollywood, where her grandma would take her to the movies as a weekly treat.
—Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedienne
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Berks County includes Reading, which has a large Latino and Hispanic population, and could offer a test case over whether a comedian’s controversial comments about Puerto Rico at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally last month could impact the former president.Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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His talk with Rogan spanned North Korea, the UFC, UFOs and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which are areas of interest to the comedian’s largely young male audience.Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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The event was part of a weekend dedicated to the nostalgia of Bozo's Circus at Madame Zuzu's from Oct. 18 to 20, bringing together clowns, kids and fans of the loud, red-haired jokester and his crew for a weekend of reminiscing.Kate Hogan, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
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The notorious jokester also made headlines during a Brooklyn concert on Monday for making up a song at the piano after a fan requested a nonexistent Coldplay song.Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
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But for those who wish to dive into more personal efforts from Ito, Junji Ito’s Cat Diary is a treat for fans of his droll good-naturedness and his ability to derive melodramatic panic out of everyday situations.Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968) The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is the band’s most impressive union of ideas and performances, an ambitious song cycle that’s also charmingly droll and crammed with memorable hooks.Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 Sep. 2024
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Meanwhile, countries across the world are again suffering an onslaught of demagogues, many of them preening buffoons who have recast themselves as visionary strongmen—much as D’Annunzio did.Pankaj Mishra, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
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Even if the author wrote in paragraph-length, punctuation-free sentences of Biblical prose, and the filmmakers prefer to express themselves through rambling conversations between cinematic buffoons, their work is bound together by an exacting consideration to every word.IndieWire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Comedienne.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedienne. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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