Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

* Arrested Development ( TV series ), a Fox Network comedy

More recently, " Twilight Zone " by 2 Unlimited was sung a cappella to the instrumentation on the comedy television series Tompkins Square.

( Howerd went on to star in Up Pompeii !, a 1969 British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii, as the slave Lurcio, whose character was based on Pseudolus.

Passing through: The theme song to the 1960s U. S. television comedy series Car 54, Where Are You?

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The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.

* Baldrick is a character in the BBC comedy series Blackadder played by Tony Robinson.

The first two films in the series are considered horror classics and are credited with spawning the " horror comedy " genre.

In 1986, the film was featured in the syndicated series, the Canned Film Festival and was later featured on the comedy series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, which also featured other Wood films.

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including Dad's Army and On the Buses.

In 1980, the gag-based comedy Airplane !, a spoof of the previous decade's disaster film series was released and paved the way for more of the same including Top Secret!

Charles acquired cult status in 1988, in his television acting debut, as the Liverpudlian slob Dave Lister, in BBC2's new science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf.

* Cyril " Blakey " Blake, the bus depot inspector from the 1970s British comedy TV series On the Buses

* The German erotic / vampire / comedy comic series Sandra Bodyshelly ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Harm Bengen incorporates several plot elements from vampiric fiction.

He had a guest voice-over role in the animated comedy series SpongeBob SquarePants as SpongeBob's cousin, Stanley.

The series covered genres which included comedy, detective caper and action thriller.

He made his name as host of the improvised television comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway ?, which ran for 10 series.

* Clone ( TV series ), a 2008 BBC comedy series

* In the Tales of Old Dartmoor episode ( recorded in 1956 ) of The Goons radio comedy series, Grytpype-Thynne arranges for the prison to put to sea to visit the Château d ' If in France as part of a plan to find the treasure of the Count of Monte Cristo hid there.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the comedy series Frasier.

In 1990, they created and executive-produced the comedy series Wings.

While watching a preview tape of highlights from Enfield's show, Whitehouse and Higson were inspired to create a rapid-fire delivery comedy show, The Fast Show.

Chris was a key part of the pool of popular culture references used in the BBC comedy The Fast Show.

Along with The Fast Show, the series is credited with the revival of the sketch show format in BBC comedy.

He played Mr. Vargas, the biology teacher in the 1982 hit comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a role he reprised in the 1986 television spin-off Fast Times.

Fast Forward was Australia ’ s highest rating, longest running and most critically awarded commercial television sketch comedy show, broadcast for 90 one hour episodes from 12 April 1989 to 26 November 1992.

Fast Forward was commissioned by Seven Network in late 1988 to take advantage of the ratings success of the Australian sketch comedy demonstrated by the high rating Australian sketch comedy show The Comedy Company, broadcast on Channel 10 in 1988.

Fast Forward was noted for its fast paced satirical comedy which particularly lampooned the media, in particular film and TV, with its precise parodies of well known television shows ( such as Kung Fu, Lost In Space, The Munsters, A Current Affair ), personalities ( such as Clive James, Jana Wendt, Hinch, Geoffrey Robertson ) and commercials ( such as Amex, Nescafe ).

The television and multimedia subject matter of the sketches, pace, style and devices were real points of difference from predecessor sketch comedy shows of the time, particularly earlier shows such as The Mavis Bramston Show, The Naked Vicar Show, Australia You're Standing In It, The D-Generation, The Comedy Company: Fast Forward was more media-focused and parody-focused ; a real difference, and the binding force for the whole show, was the now-famous channel changing device.

In 1982, she made her screen debut as a cameo character in director Amy Heckerling's coming-of-age comedy based on the Cameron Crowe book, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, as the wife of science teacher Mr. Vargas ( Vincent Schiavelli ).

Boutros-Ghali's name was used in the comedic language on the BBC comedy The Fast Show, in the Chanel 9 sketches which parodied poor quality Latin, Greek, Southern Mediterranean style state television.

* In the early 1990s, a parody sketch of Prisoner was aired on Network Ten's comedy sketch program, " Fast Forward ".

In 2011, he hosted the short-lived improvisational comedy series Fast and Loose.

In 1982, she played a teenager who gets pregnant in the Cameron Crowe-scripted high school comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which served as a launching pad for several of its young stars, including Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Phoebe Cates and Nicolas Cage.

His first starring role was in the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds as Gilbert Lowe, though he had a tiny part in the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, credited as " stoner Bud ".

The series was conceived by Turner and Riley in the early 1990s as a weekly segment of the Australian comedy series Fast Forward.

She has performed in the comedy programs The D-Generation and Fast Forward ; more recently, she stars as Sharon Strzelecki in the television comedy show Kath & Kim.

Szubanski was part of the team that created the television sketch comedy Fast Forward for the Seven Network, in which she played various characters, including Pixie-Anne Wheatley, Chenille, Sharon Strzelecki

The only song they have been heard to play is " Capital Cash " by Fast Exit, a band that Brent Butt played guitar in before he got into comedy.

Butt was in a band called Fast Exit as a guitarist before he got into comedy, and they are mentioned in the episode as the band that originally did the song.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen comedy film written by Cameron Crowe and adapted from his 1981 book of the same name.

After his poem Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Work was published in 1987, his act developed from poetry to stand-up comedy.