I love stand-up comedy!  That's when a comedian performs in front of a live audience.
i dont know much about that. where does this usually take place?
It can be performed in comedy clubs, bars, night clubs, colleges, and other places!  I saw stand up in a college once.
ohh okay. when did stand up comedy first get its start?
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Stand-up comedy is often performed in corporate events, comedy clubs, bars and pubs, nightclubs, neo-burlesques, colleges and theatres (audiences will give applause breaks more often in theaters
). Outside live performance, stand-up is often distributed commercially via television, DVD, CD and the internet.
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.
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Since entering the comedy scene in New York City in 1998, Foster has performed both live audience warm-up and as a guest for The Oprah Winfrey Show and for Showtime at the world-famous Apollo Theatre. When she’s not headlining colleges and clubs across the country, Foster performs weekly at a variety of NYC comedy clubs including the Comedy Cellar, The Comic Strip Live, Carolines on Broadway, Gotham Comedy Club, Stand-up New York Comedy Club, Broadway