Nervous laughter in the audience - they thought they'd come for a literary reading, not a stand-up act.

The opening line was lifted from Lee's original early '90s stand-up act.

There is the opening monologue, much of which sounds familiar to anyone who has heard his stand-up act.

As in his stand-up act, he often focuses on class divisions among black people.

But it's important to realize the place lewdness has in today's female stand-up act.

Later that evening he will do his regular stand-up act at a local comedy club.

All the locker room is a stage for Coles's stand-up act.

To vote for your favourite stand-up act, call one of the numbers below.

This was the first stand-up act that Pryor did before he hit the mainstream audience.

Few of today's comedians could sustain such a stand-up act on the box.