A performer who specializes in comedy, entertaining audiences through humor, jokes, and comic situations.
From French comédien, from comédie (comedy), ultimately from Greek komoidia meaning 'revel-song', composed of komos (revel) and aeidein (to sing). The term originally referred to any comic actor or performer.
Comedians serve as society's licensed truth-tellers, using humor to address taboo subjects and social tensions that might be too uncomfortable to discuss directly. The role traces back to ancient court jesters, showing how cultures consistently need designated individuals to speak uncomfortable truths through laughter.
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