a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes or funny stories （講笑話或趣事的）滑稽演員 He started out as a stand-up comedian in Liverpool. 他在利物浦出道時是一個單口喜劇演員。
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a person who is funny or thinks they are funny （講笑話或趣事的）滑稽演員 The speaker was a bit of a comedian, so it was an amusing session. 演講者有點像喜劇演員，所以這是一場有趣的會議。
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a comic playwright): from French comédien, from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos ‘comic poet’, from kōmos ‘revel’ + aoidos ‘singer’. The sense ‘entertainer’ dates from the late 19th cent.