Anime Club, Chemistry Club, Chinese Dragon Dance Team, Colleges Against Cancer / Relay for Life, College Democrats, College Republicans, Comic Book Club, East Asian Studies Club, Gay-Straight Alliance, Habitat for Humanity, March of Dimes, Mock Trial, New York Times Discussion Group, Outdoors Club, Pep Band, Pocket Lint Improvisational Comedy, POWER ( Parliament of the Wittenberg Environmental Revolution ), Pre-Health Club, Sailing Club, Crew, Society of Physics Students, Student Global AIDS Campaign, Student Senate, Swing Dance Club, Union Board, University Communications, Wittenberg Art League, Wittenberg Role-Playing Guild, Wittenberg Rugby, Wittenberg Student Dance Company ( WSDC ), WUSO radio station, WittMen Crew A Capella, Student newspaper The Torch, Wittenberg Film Club, Diversity Club, Planned Parenthood, and WUSS ( Wittenberg University Speleological Society — The Caving Club ), Younglife.

However, the most successful genres have been rock, popular and traditional fusion, with performers such as U2, Enya, Westlife, Boyzone, Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher, Horslips, Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats, Clannad, Stiff Little Fingers, Altan, Frank Patterson, The Corrs, The Dubliners, The Chieftains, The Bothy Band, De Dannan, The Divine Comedy, Josef Locke, The Irish Tenors, Van Morrison, Therapy ?, The Saw Doctors, Planxty, The Wolfe Tones, Snow Patrol, The Cranberries, In Tua Nua, The Undertones, Ash, B * Witched, Nadine Coyle, The Hothouse Flowers, The Script, Two Door Cinema Club, Something Happens, The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, Dana, Mundy, Sinéad O ' Connor, Paul Brady, Christy Moore, Dónal Lunny, Val Doonican, Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ruby Murray, Peter Cunnah ( of D: Ream ), Daniel O ' Donnell, Bridie Gallagher, Brendan Bowyer, Gilbert O ' Sullivan, Mary Black, Sir James Galway, Johnny Logan, Bill Whelan ( of Riverdance fame ), Damien Rice, Phil Coulter, Glen Hansard, and Celtic Woman achieving success nationally and internationally.

There is a Concert Band Beanpot, Beanpot of Comedy, and a Rice and Beanpot burrito-eating contest, sponsored by Qdoba.

The Concert Band Beanpot and Beanpot of Comedy are non-competitive events.

She is perhaps best known for being one of the original correspondents on the popular Comedy Central satirical news series The Daily Show from 1996 to 2000 ; she is also known as Tripp's mother Beth Campbell from I'm in the Band.

The Comedy Direction winner, Two Arabian Knights, was believed lost for many years but was preserved in the Howard Hughes archive and has been broadcast ( along with another first-year nominee produced by Hughes and believed lost, The Racket ) on Turner Classic Movies.

The Knights ( Hippeîs ; Attic ) was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, the master of an ancient form of drama known as Old Comedy.

The Knights is one of the earliest of Aristophanes ' surviving plays and generally it obeys the conventions of Old Comedy.

The recipients included Emil Jannings, the first person to receive an Academy Award, for Best Actor for the films The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command ; Janet Gaynor for Best Actress, for Seventh Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ; Frank Borzage for Best Director, Drama for Seventh Heaven and Lewis Milestone for Best Director, Comedy for Two Arabian Knights ; and the film Wings, the most expensive film of its time, became the Best Picture recipient.

* Romantic Comedy Movies-Top 290 ( 1978 – present ) by Box Office Mojo

Hicks was 16 years old when he started performing stand-up comedy at the Comedy Workshop in Houston, Texas, in 1978.

Other guests included Betty White, Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond, Tim Conway and Roz Kelly as Happy Days ' Pinkie Tuscadero ; The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( April 23, 1977 ) with Cloris Leachman and Tony Randall ; T ' was the Night Before Christmas with Alice Ghostley, Martha Raye, George Gobel and Foster Brooks ; The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( May 20, 1978 ) with Juliet Prowse, Brenda Vaccaro and Harry Morgan of MASH.

* 1978: Emmy Award for " Best Actor — Drama or Comedy Special " for A Family Upside Down

She received a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award in 1978 and several more award nominations for playing the character.

She received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for playing Brenda, and won the award in 1978.

In 1978, Bisset starred opposite Anthony Quinn in The Greek Tycoon, and received a second Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Comedy for Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe ?.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1978 – 1980 and 2004 – 2005 ): Comedy science fiction serial by Douglas Adams.

* Outstanding Comedy Series-nominated: 1978, 1980, 1981

* Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series ( Cathryn Damon )-won: 1980, nominated: 1978, 1981

* Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series ( Katherine Helmond )-nominated: 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981

* Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series ( Jay Sandrich )-nominated: 1978, 1979

* Outstanding Art Direction in a Comedy Series-won: 1978

* Outstanding Achievement in Video Tape Editing in a Comedy Series-nominated: 1978

Director Jay Sandrich was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series ' at the DGA Awards in 1978 and 1979.

He also shared a 1978 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for his work on The Paul Simon Special.

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 ).

* Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, 1971, 1976, 1977, and 1978, All in the Family

The Official History of London's Comedy Store credits comedian and author Tony Allen with coining the term, though in his autobiography, the late Malcolm Hardee claims to have coined the term in 1978.

This album won the Grammy Award in 1978 for Best Comedy Album.

* City Sugar Bush, October 1975 ; Comedy Theatre, March 1976 ; Phoenix Theatre ( New York ), January 1978

Pleshette was one of the stars of the popular CBS sitcom The Bob Newhart Show ( 1972 – 1978 ) for all six seasons, and was nominated twice for the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Their second album Communiqué ( 1979 ) made the Top 20 in many countries and earned another gold record award in the U. S. WBR also enjoyed renewed success with comedy recordings in this period, transferring Richard Pryor from Reprise and signing rising star Steve Martin, whose second Warner album A Wild and Crazy Guy ( 1978 ) became one of the label's biggest comedy hits — it reached # 2 on the pop album chart, won the 1979 Grammy for ' Best Comedy Album ', and Martin's novelty single " King Tut " was a US Top 20 hit.

In the UK, series 1 and 2 were shown by the Paramount Comedy Channel.

In the UK the Comedy Store Players are a well known improv group, who are also in the Guinness World Records

However, a number of them ( of varying quality ) were shown the following year on the Paramount Comedy Channel in the UK ; it has not been disclosed how these scenes were saved or where they came from ; possibly the source was the Criterion laserdisc.

When the UK version ended in 1998, many of the performers, such as Stephen Frost and Mike McShane, began performing with The Comedy Store Players and remain performing to date.

It was first aired in the UK on 8 September 1968 and the film was later broadcast for the United States on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on 6 October 1968.

* January 4 – The record breaking, long-running comedy series in the UK and the world " Last of the Summer Wine " starts as a 30-minute pilot on BBC1's Comedy Playhouse show.

In the UK, the episode " The Curse of Mr. Bean " was nominated for a number of BAFTA awards ; " Best Light Entertainment Programme " in 1991, " Best Comedy " ( Programme or Series ) in 1991, and Atkinson was nominated three times for " Best Light Entertainment Performance " in 1991 and 1994.

After its original run it has been shown repeatedly on PBS and satellite channels such as Telemundo in the United States, CBC in Canada, TV1 in Australia, TVB in Hong Kong, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and ITV3, Cartoon Network on 11 June 2012, in the UK, Disney Channel Asia in Southeast Asia, TV3 in Malaysia, MediaCorp Channel 5 in Singapore, ABS-CBN in the Philippines and RCTI in Indonesia.

Notable credits include Trafford Tanzi ( at the Mermaid Theatre, leading role ), Cabaret ( Sally Bowles ), Three Men and a Horse ( winner of an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy ), the UK tour of Arthur Smith's Live Bed Show.

In June 2012 Lee was placed at number 9 in the Top 100 Most Influential People In UK Comedy.

* Paramount Comedy 1, UK television station

* Paramount Comedy 2, UK television station

She is also part of the Comedy Collective UK ( which included Colin Shelbourn, John Random, Ivan Shakespeare, Lee Barnett, Claire Storey, Jasmine Birtles, Robert Priest ).

He continued touring and performing in the UK and Australia, winning the Edinburgh Festival Critics Award for Comedy in 1994.

In the following years, the show was picked up by TVA, CBC and The Comedy Network in Canada, BBC1 in the UK, TF1 in France, ABC and Telemundo in the United States.

Versions would occasionally tie in with the theme of the episode (" Guns-the Musical " had a Broadway-style version by Jodie Gilles as the conclusion, while the episode on Australian Comedy had the Doug Anthony All Stars performing it with the assistance of Barry Crocker ) but the most surprising of all was the version by Rolf Harris which eventually reached number 7 on the UK singles chart.

Birds of a Feather has been adapted for stage by The Comedy Theatre Company, producers of previous dinnerladies and Keeping Up Appearances UK stage tours.

Between 1999 and 2001 she toured a one woman show, Back With You, taking in the UK and Germany, and winning the Best Comedy Award at the Moers Comedy Festival in 2001.

" He subsequently toured a version of this show throughout the UK and Ireland in 2009, with longtime sidekick Myron T. Buttram ( guitarist and pedal steel player, Rob Childs ) and Lonesome Dave ( banjoist and guitarist, David Lindsay ) appearing at the 2009 Adelaide Fringe festival, the Sydney Opera House, and the 2009 Melbourne Comedy festival.

* 1972: Marty Feldman's Comedy Machine ( UKIB, UK )

The channel was similar to American channel ABC Family, and UK channels Trouble ( now closed ) and Comedy Central ( previously Paramount Comedy ).

On 31 May the channel introduced Rodney to its schedule at 4pm weekdays and from the 4 July ABC1 began to air Scrubs, which is also seen on other UK channels, E4, Channel 4, Sky One and Comedy Central.