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1979 and Comedy
Anderson was involved in the fledgling alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s and was the first act to come on stage at The Comedy Store when it opened in 1979.
In 1979 John Elk brought Short-Form to England, teaching workshops at Jacksons Lane Theatre and was the first American to perform at The Comedy Store, London, above a Soho strip club.
Despite this, Lynde's amazing popularity led to his being signed by ABC to host a series of specials from 1975 to 1979, including: The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( November 6, 1975 ) with Jack Albertson, Nancy Walker and the Osmond Brothers ; The Paul Lynde Halloween Special ( October 29, 1976 ) featuring the first prime-time network appearance of KISS, along with Margaret Hamilton recreating her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz.
The show was proposed five times between 1973 and 1985 for the British Academy Film Awards, twice for the Best Situation Comedy Series award ( in 1973 and 1979 ) and three times for the Best Comedy Series award ( in 1982, 1983, and 1985 ).
It also won the 1979 Golden Globe Award for Best Film ( Comedy or Musical ), and received nominations in two other Golden Globe categories.
The film also won the 1979 Golden Globe Award for Best Film ( Comedy or Musical ), and also gained nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay.
In 1979, the first American-style stand-up comedy club, the Comedy Store, London was opened in London by Peter Rosengard, where many alternative comedy stars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson began their careers.
It ended its run at the King's Road Theatre on 31 March 1979 before transferring to the Comedy Theatre ( now the Harold Pinter Theatre ) to begin performances on 6 April 1979.
The Rocky Horror Show transferred to the 820-seat Comedy Theatre on Panton Street in the West End, running from 6 April 1979 until 13 September 1980, closing the play's initial run of 2, 960 performances.
His Broadway credits also included the 1967 Neil Simon comedy The Star-Spangled Girl, the Frank Loesser musical Greenwillow ( 1960 ), for which he was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and Bernard Slade's 1979 play Romantic Comedy opposite Mia Farrow.
* Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series ( Katherine Helmond )-nominated: 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981
* Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series ( Robert Guillaume )-won: 1979
* Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series ( Jay Sandrich )-nominated: 1978, 1979
Director Jay Sandrich was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series ' at the DGA Awards in 1978 and 1979.
Peters starred opposite Steve Martin in The Jerk ( 1979 ), in a role that he wrote for her, and Pennies From Heaven ( 1981 ), for which she won the Golden Globe Award as Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
In 1979, Farrow appeared on Broadway opposite Anthony Perkins in the play Romantic Comedy by Bernard Slade.
In 1979, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Rose, a role for which she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress ( Comedy or Musical ).
* Radio Comedy by Arthur Frank Wertheim ( 1979 ) Oxford University Press
For his work as Archie Bunker, he was nominated for eight Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series ; he won the award four times ( 1972, 1977, 1978, and 1979 ).
Two double acts, Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall under the name " 20th Century Coyote " and Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson (" The Outer Limits "), started performing at the newly opened Comedy Store in London in mid 1980, alongside compere Alexei Sayle who had been resident there since the Comedy Store opened in 1979.
First in the 1979 The New Shmoo ( later incorporated into Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo ), and again from 1980 to 1984 in the Flintstone Comedy Show, in the Bedrock Cops segment.
This style won out in a ' civil war ' against more traditional comedians who had initially played London's Comedy Store, Soho, from its opening in May 1979.

1979 and Performance
* 1979: Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational – My Father's Eyes
* Three productions, all musicals, have won all " big six " awards for their category: South Pacific ( 1950 awards ), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 1979 awards ) and Hairspray ( 2003 awards ); each won the Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Performance by a Leading Actor, Best Performance by a Leading Actress and Best Direction awards.
:* 1979 – Best Orchestral Performance – Herbert von Karajan, Beethoven: Symphonies ( 9 ) ( Complete )
The 1979 double live album 8: 30 ( which won that year's Best Jazz Fusion Performance ) was recorded on the Mr. Gone tour and captured the direct power and energy of this lineup of Weather Report.
* A Performance of Macbeth ( 1979 ), executive producer
* In 1979 it was again awarded as Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
In 1979 Manchester made # 10 with her version of Peter Allen's " Don't Cry Out Loud ", for which she received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal Performance.
She also won the Best Female Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, for Norma Rae ( 1979 ).
( 1946 ); “ Essentials for Nigeria ’ s Survival .” ( 1965 ); “ Before Us Lies The Open Grave ” ( 1947 ); “ The Future of Pan-Africanism ” ( 1961 ); “ The Realities of African Unity ” ( 1965 ); “ Origins of the Nigerian Civil War ” ( 1969 ); I Believe in a One Nigeria ( 1969 ); Peace Proposals for Ending the Nigerian Civil War ( 1969 ); Dialogue on a New Capital for Nigeria ( 1974 ); “ Creation of More States in Nigeria, A Political Analysis ” ( 1974 ); Democracy with Military Vigilance ( 1974 ); “ Reorientation of Nigerian Ideologies: lecture on 9 December 1976, on eve of the launching of the UNN Endowment Fund ” ( 1976 ); Our Struggle for Freedom ; Onitsha Market Crisis ( 1976 ); Let Us Forgive Our Children, An appeal to the leaders and people of Onitsha during the market crisis ( 1976 ); A Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); Civil War Soliloquies: More Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); “ Themes in African Social and Political Thought ” ( 1978 ); Restoration of Nigerian Democracy ( 1978 ); Matchless Past Performance: My Reply to Chief Awolowo ’ s Challenge ( 1979 ); A Matter of Conscience ( 1979 ); Ideology for Nigeria: Capitalism, Socialism or Welfarism?
* Performance ( Quartet ) 1979 ( hatART, 1979 )
* A Night with Dame Edna ( 1979 ), for which he won an Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance
* In 1970, 1973 to 1976 and 1979 to 1981 it was awarded as Best Choral Performance, Classical ( other than opera )
* Performance Art ( 1979 / 80 ) memoirs and scripts, two volumes
At the 21st Grammy Awards in 1979, Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track, was named Album of the Year and the Bee Gees received the award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for their contributions to the soundtrack album.
Daniels won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance in 1979 for " The Devil Went Down to Georgia ", which reached No. 3 on the Hot 100 in September 1979.
* From 1979 to 1992 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group
* From 1979 to 1988 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
* From 1979 to 1991 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band
* S Schwartz, ‘ The Case for Specific Performance( 1979 ) 89 Yale Law Journal 271
* PMS Syntar, an earliest keytar synthesizer designed by George Mattson ( Performance Music Systems ) and exhibited at 1979 Atlanta NAMM

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