funnyman

plural funnymen · alternative funny man

1. informalcomedian

   To get the party started a professional funnyman was hired.

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   From 1970 to 1974 he was one of the most familiar funnymen in Chicago: by day a heavily promoted personality journalist, by night a "sit-down comic" with a devoted following.

   1988 December 16, Albert Williams, “Club Dates: Bruce Vilanch returns from Hollywood”, in Chicago Reader

   As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.

   2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian