Of course Diller was not the first woman to do stand-up, but she was perhaps the first solo woman to successfully break into that male bastion and become a household name.
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to produce the first stand-up comedy show post-Egyptian revolution.
She took the stage at San Francisco's Purple Onion Club on March 7, 1955, for her first stand-up comedy performance.
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"He deserves all the accolades and I will be one of the first to stand up in the coaching box on Saturday and clap him, " he said.
Comedian Jim Davidson has cancelled his first play, Stand Up And Be Counted, after poor ticket sales.
First, a Stand Up To Online Bullying Quiz.
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Nabokov was that close to making Michael Grabner's first-period goal stand up and earning his 54th NHL shutout.
Emily Bennington is coauthor of Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job (Ten Speed Press, 2010).
"We got hit for playing the game, and that happens, but at the same time, you got to stand up for yourself, " said Canadian first baseman Justin Morneau.
The first rendition of 'Stand up for the Ulstermen' reverberated around the packed grandstands and terraces and as the PA announcer urged the fans to even greater efforts, the home crowd hoped the game itself would live up to the pre-match hype.
That's how we start off -- every time somebody speaks in Congress, the first thing they do, they stand up and all the talking points -- I see Frank Luntz up here sitting in the front.
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Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the first minister would rather "cosy up than stand up to Rupert Murdoch" and accused him of a "grubby deal" with the media tycoon.
Rebecca Maughan, the real history teacher, offered an encouraging first-night review, saying that the stand-up stand-in teacher had kept the class engaged and interested.
On his first day on the water he set a goal to stand up on the surfboard three times.
For starters Clinton has for the first time committed himself to balance, with numbers credible enough to stand up to scrutiny on Capitol Hill but big enough to accommodate the promises he made during the last campaign.
In parliament, the Socialist group continued to stand up for its beliefs, and, in one of the most lively sessions of first minister's questions, four of their number were banned from Holyrood for a month after marching to the front of the chamber brandishing placards and demanding the right to protest at the 2005 G8 summit, in Gleneagles.
Her father first found fame in the late 1970s with his own form of stand-up comedy and became a household name in Britain with his own series.
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The reigning Vezina Trophy winner was perfect in making Derick Brassard's second-period goal stand up in a 1-0 victory over the Capitals that forced a deciding game in the first-round, Eastern Conference series.
First, some of what passes for scientific methodology in the forensic world would not stand up to scrutiny outside it.
At first the oddly delightful sensibility of "The Hammer" seems to derive from stand-up comedy -- lots of free-form riffs on topics ranging from toggle bolts to the La Brea tar pits.
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