Question: Information:  - A writer is a person who uses written words in various styles and techniques to communicate their ideas. Writers produce various forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays, and essays as well as various reports and news articles that may be of interest to the public. Writers' texts are published across a range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The word is also used elsewhere in the arts  such as songwriter  but as a standalone term, "writer" normally refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition.  - Cowards are a British four-man comedy act, composed of Tim Key, Stefan Golaszewski, Tom Basden and Lloyd Woolf. The group has created eponymous radio and TV series of their sketch comedy.  - Stefan Golaszewski is an English/Polish writer, performer and director. He is part of comedy sketch group Cowards and is the writer and creator of the BAFTA winning sitcom Him & Her.  - Tim Key (born 2 September 1976 in Cambridgeshire) is an English actor, writer, and performance poet. In 2009, he was the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was also nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.  - Lloyd Woolf is a British comedy actor and writer. He was a member of the four man group Cowards, which also included Tim Key, Tom Basden and Stefan Golaszewski.  - Malcolm Hardee (5 January 1950  31 January 2005) was an English comedian, author, comedy club proprietor, compère, agent, manager and "amateur sensationalist".  - Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio or visual medium such as radio and television. Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and written down based on the outcome of these improv sessions; however, such improvisation is not necessarily involved in sketch comedy.  - An actor (or actress for females; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is, literally "one who answers". The actor's interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly; to act, is to create, a character in performance.  - Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam about north of London. At the United Kingdom Census 2011, its population was 123,867, including 24,488 students.  - Tom Basden is a British actor and comedy writer , and a member of the British four - man sketch group Cowards . He has written and performed extensively for comedy shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and often collaborates in two - man shows with fellow Cowards member Tim Key .    Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'occupation' with the subject 'tom basden'.  Choices: - actor  - agent  - author  - comedian  - comedy writer  - creator  - director  - literary  - manager  - member  - poet  - radio  - united kingdom  - writer
Answer:
comedian