Words / B2

k-uh-MEED-ee-uh-n/kəˈmiːdiən/

A comedian is a person whose job is to make people laugh, especially on stage or television: a stand-up comedian; comedian and audience. Comedy is the genre (already in the dictionary); comic can be a person or a magazine (later if present). Name the comedian in the satire source, then analyse the target. Mix-up: commander; come. Do not write comedian for a tragic chorus.

Meaning

A person whose job is to make people laugh, especially on stage or television.

Examples

• “Name the comedian in the satire source, then analyse the target, the media paper said.”
• “A comedian’s persona is not a witness statement, which is the performance sense.”

Good to know

a stand-up / TV comedian. Genre: comedy. Trap: commander. Media and literature. A professional funny performer, not the whole genre.

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