comediannoun/kəˈmiː.di.ən/

• 1

  An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.

  • According to Jared Freid, a 39-year-old comedian and co-host of the dating podcast "U Up?," this is known as hoodfishing, a coinage — though not his own — referring to people claiming to be from the city they are dating in but really are living somewhere else entirely.
• 2

  Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.

  • It's been my job for many years and taken me to many places, and into many a tight spot, but, on the railway, you'll always find a comedian in the gang, to raise a laugh and keep you going.
• 3

  datedA person who performs in theatrical plays.

  • […] the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels;
  • 1714, Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder, London: E. Curll and A. Bettesworth, Preface, I Don’t pretend to write a Preface, either to point out the Beauties, or to excuse the Errors, a judicious Reader may possibly discover in the following Scenes, but to give those excellent Comedians their Due, to whom, in some Measure the best Dramatick Writers are oblig’d.
• 4

  obsoleteA writer of comedies.

  • This doth the Comedy handle ſo in our priuate and domeſtical matters, as with hearing it, we get as it were an experience, what is to be looked for of a nigardly Demea: of a crafty Danus: of a flattering Gnato: of a vaine glorious Thraſo: and not onely to know what effects are to be expected, but to know who be ſuch, by the ſignifying badge giuen them by the Comedian.
  • Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old Comedians were supprest, though the acting of them were forbid;