Resident comedian showing innate intelligence (6,3)

'innate intelligence' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'resident comedian' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'resident' could be 'native' (I've seen this before) and 'native' is found in the answer.
'comedian' could be 'wit' (a witty person) and 'wit' is found within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'showing' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?