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Colin Quinn
Colin Quinn (born June 6, 1959) is an Irish-American stand-up comedian and writer, best known for his five years in the cast of Saturday Night Live, as co-host of MTV's wildly popular late-1980's gameshow Remote Control and as host of Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn on Comedy Central from 2002-2004....
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Sketch comedy
Sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium...
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Satire
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of...
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Observational comedy
Observational comedy is a style of humor based on making remarks about commonplace aspects of everyday life.
In the United States, the style was popularized by comedians such as Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Robert Klein, Richard Pryor, Jay Leno and...
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Black comedy
Black comedy is a sub-genre of comedy and satire in which topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo are treated in a satirical or humorous manner while retaining their seriousness. Synonyms include dark comedy, black humor, dark humor,...
