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Stand up for your health !喜剧让你健康！

People have always enjoyed laughing ,and there has always been humour .人们总是喜欢笑，并且一直有幽默喜剧。

One favourite type of comedy is called stand-up. Stand-up is a kind of comedy that is done on a stage by a comedian talking straight to audience members .

一个喜欢的类型被称为stand-up（单口喜剧）. stand-up（单口喜剧）是一种舞台喜剧表演形式，由一个喜剧演员直接跟观众。

A stand-up comedian may tease an audience member, or might decide to tell different jokes depending upon how the audience reacted to his or her previous jokes .

单口喜剧演员逗观众，或者可以讲不同的笑话，取决于观众的反应他或她以前的笑话。

Types of stand-up喜剧类型

There are a variety of different styles of stand-up comedy.

有各种不同风格的单口相声。

Some comedians tell jokes about the way people behave or about daily life.

一些喜剧演员告诉人们的行为方式或日常生活的笑话。

For example, they may talk about how people act when they queue up， or they may ask why it only rains when you forget your umbrella.

比如，他们可能谈论人们在排队时如何采取行动，或他们可能会问，为什么只有下雨时，你忘了你的雨伞。

Other comedians rely on visual humour. Their humour may be inspired by objects.其他演员依靠视觉幽默。他们的幽默可能是启发的对象。

For example, one comedian uses a huge hammer to break watermelons while he makes jokes about what he is doing.

例如，一个喜剧演员用一个巨大的锤子砸西瓜，当他开玩笑说他在做什么。

Another comedian points to a video tennis game and says , ‘I’ve been playing tennis every day for a month. I don’t understand why I am not losing weight!’另一个喜剧演员指向视频的网球游戏，说，“我已经连续一个月每天打网球。我不明白为什么我不减肥！

’Yet other comedians may trip over chairs, walk into doors, and fall down on stage in order to make people laugh.然而其他的喜剧演员会被椅子绊倒，走进门，和跌倒在舞台上为了让人们发笑。

This kind of absurd humour is not very funny if you are only listening and not watching the comedian’s performance. 这种荒谬的幽默不是很有趣，如果你只是听，而不是看喜剧演员的表现。

The last kind of comedian does impressions-he or she will act or speak like a well-known person in order to make fun of that person. 最后一种喜剧演员做的印象，他或她会像一个众所周知的人，以使人的乐趣。

While this kind of humour may sound cruel, it usually only works if both the comedian and the audience have affection for or admire the person being made fun of .

而这种幽默听起来是残酷的，它通常只能当喜剧演员和观众都喜爱和欣赏被取笑的人。

A famous comedian一个著名的喜剧演员

Only a few stand-up comedians have become famous as television and film performers later on in life. 在以后的生活中，只有少数演员成为著名的影视演员。

One such person is Billy Crystal.这样一个人是比利克里斯特尔。

Like other stand-up comedians who have gone on to act in films, Crystal still enjoys stand-up .像其他已经在电影中表演的单口喜剧演员，克里斯特尔仍然喜欢单口喜剧。

People around the world enjoy watching him when he hosts the Academy Awards. He has hosted the show nine times.全世界的人们都喜欢看他主持的奥斯卡颁奖典礼。他主持了这九次演出。