The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.

He was assistant to the director of a small theatre ( now the Borgarleikhúsið ) for a while, and produced, with two friends ( Þórarinn Eldjárn and Hrafn Gunnlaugsson ), a popular radio comedy show for two years ; he was for a while a political commentator at the newspaper Morgunblaðið, and the director of publication of Almenna bókafélagið, a conservative publishing house.

Student publications include the official student newspaper The Prodigy, official radio station Bobcat Radio, comedy newspaper The Other Child, the Democrats at UC Merced's newspaper The Donkey Press, the College Republicans ' publication The Right Side and literary journals The Kumquat and Imagination Dead Imagine.

* In the 1985 comedy / thriller Compromising Positions, the lead character, played by Susan Sarandon, is a former Newsday journalist who is trying reestablish her career by selling a freelance story to the publication.

Wright died April 11, 1939, in New York City, a year after the publication of an unpopular experimental novel that incorporated one of the biggest stars in radio comedy, The Gracie Allen Murder Case, and leaving a complete novelette-length story that was intended as a film vehicle for Sonja Henie, and was published posthumously as The Winter Murder Case.

For example, an 1893 publication describes ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes as having been " the high-priest of comedy "

Jack Szwergold is a comedy writer and the Webby-Award-winning first webmaster for the news parody publication The Onion.

However, at the Googolplex Theatre, every kid-friendly movie is sold out, and Rod and Todd will not let Homer see a raunchy comedy called Teenage Sex Wager since it is one of many movies condemned by a Christian publication called " What Would Jesus View ?".

His clean, off-center humor has been praised by critics and contemporaries alike and Regan enjoys a fan base that crosses young taste makers to middle-aged adults ; he is respected in the comedy community for being a " universal comic ," his work has been applauded by such diverse sources as Comedy Central, Slate, The Onion and The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Show has been called one of " TV ’ s greatest cult comedy series " by The Onion AV Club.

The Purple Onion is a celebrated comedy and music club in the North Beach area of San Francisco that launched the careers of the Kingston Trio and Phyllis Diller in addition to the Smothers Brothers.

In addition, the campus was the birthplace of the satirical weekly, The Onion, the comedy newspaper The Madison Misnomer, founded in 2007, and the conservative journal, Insight and Outlook, a precursor to the Badger Herald.

My Secret Public Journal Live was named one of the best comedy albums of the decade by the Onion AV Club and Sleepwalk With Me Live debuted at # 1 on the Billboard Magazine Comedy Charts.

In November 1914, Chaplin appeared in the first feature length comedy film, Tillie's Punctured Romance, directed by Sennett.

He performed his political poems as stand-up comedy on the late-night show, Saturday Live, and on the prime-time BBC1 chat show Wogan, where he performed a topical poem in a weekly feature.

Her final feature, the comedy film With Six You Get Eggroll, was released in 1968.

His feature film debut was in producer Samuel Goldwyn's Technicolor 1944 comedy Up in Arms, a remake of Goldwyn's Eddie Cantor comedy Whoopee!

In the 2005 feature film romantic comedy, Hitch, starring Will Smith, his and Eva Mendes ' characters take a jet ski to the island and explore the building.

The distinguishing feature of some of their films was a deliberate attempt to use resolutely theatrical-type light comedy playing that was directed towards the audience.

In 1996 he starred in the feature comedy Down Periscope.

The Keystone Cops serve as supporting players for Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Chaplin in the first full-length Sennett comedy feature, Tillie's Punctured Romance ( 1914 ), as well as in Mabel's New Hero ( 1913 ) with Normand and Arbuckle, Making a Living ( 1914 ) with Chaplin in his first screen appearance ( pre-Tramp ), In the Clutches of the Gang ( 1914 ) with Normand, Arbuckle, and Al St. John, and Wished on Mabel ( 1915 ) with Arbuckle and Normand, among others.

Ferrigno appeared as himself in the 2009 feature film comedy I Love You, Man.

The divorce was acrimonious and served as the basis of Cameron's first feature, the dark comedy, God's Will, which also starred their daughter, Domenica.

In 1992, Cruz made her feature film debut at 18 as the lead female role in the comedy drama art house film, Jamón, jamón.

Both UK and Australian soap operas feature comedy elements, often by way of affectionate comic stereotypes such as the gossip or the grumpy old man, presented as a sort of comic foil to the emotional turmoil that surrounds them.

While there is no authoritative list of the defining characteristics of the screwball comedy genre, films considered to be definitive of the genre usually feature farcical situations, a combination of slapstick with fast-paced repartee and show the struggle between economic classes.

Many of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the 1930s also feature screwball comedy plots, notably The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ) and Top Hat ( 1935 ).

His scripts feature black comedy and often end with a dark tragicomic twist.

Shemp appeared with the Stooges in 76 more shorts and a quickie Western comedy feature titled Gold Raiders.

During the second half of the 1990s she starred in several films such as the ensemble romantic film ' Til There Was You ( 1997 ) with Dylan McDermott and Sarah Jessica Parker, The Thin Pink Line ( 1998 ), the animated feature The Iron Giant ( 1999 ), and the critically acclaimed comedy Office Space ( 1999 ).

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

Weir's first full-length feature film was the underground cult classic, The Cars That Ate Paris ( 1975 ), a low-budget black comedy about the inhabitants of a small country town who deliberately cause fatal car crashes and live off the proceeds.

Other segments feature Lionel Barrymore, Marion Davies, Gus Edwards, John Gilbert, Buster Keaton, Marie Dressler, Anita Page, Norma Shearer, and the comedy team of Karl Dane and George K. Arthur.

*" Magic Act " introduced by Jack Benny, featuring Laurel and Hardy as magicians in a comedy skit ( their first appearance in a sound feature film )

In 1951, Tracy portrayed a lawyer in The People Against O ' Hara and re-teamed with Hepburn for the sports comedy Pat and Mike ( 1952 ), the second feature written expressly for the pair by Kanin and Gordon.

She managed to land unbilled small parts in several feature films and comedy shorts for two years.

Mining obscure and invented words for double entendres was a feature of Larry Grayson's act, who preferred to use well-known words with phallic connotations ( e. g. barge-pole ) in his particular version of comedy.

'' My impassioned plea for civil rights created a landslide of correspondence and one sponsor even asked me to consider replacing the Eddie Cantor comedy hour on a permanent basis.

Some who have written on Utopia have treated it as `` a learned diversion of a learned world '', `` a phantasy with which More amused himself '', `` a holiday work, a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high spirits, a revel of debate, paradox, comedy and invention ''.

All this near tragedy, which to us borders on comedy, enables us to tell the story over and over again, always warming ourselves with a glow of complacency.

Berman, whose fame has rested in recent years on his skills as a night club monologist, proved himself very much at home in musical comedy.

The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).

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

A successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour.

His contentious public persona during this period was captured on a late sixties comedy LP called Al Capp On Campus.

( 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.

Brooks attended Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, but dropped out after one year to focus on his comedy career.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.

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.

Chaplin also wished to " do something more " than comedy, and — as Louvish says —" make his mark on a changed world.

Another style of comedy horror can also rely on over the top violence and gore such as in Dead Alive ( 1992 ), Evil Dead ( 1981 ), and Club Dread-such films are sometimes known as splatstick, a portmanteau of the words splatter and slapstick.

Most fantasy comedy includes an element of parody, or satire, turning many of the fantasy conventions on their head such as the hero becoming a cowardly fool, the princess being a klutz.

* Prominent media journalists, pundits on major nationally syndicated television shows, commentators on prominently scheduled television shows, nationally acclaimed media columnists and syndicated columnists, critically acclaimed and best-selling authors and writers, major national newscasters and news analysts, national television reporters and television anchors, national television game show hosts on prominently scheduled game shows, radio personalities on prominently scheduled radio shows, comedians on major headlining comedy shows, reality television personalities on most prominently scheduled reality television shows, daytime television show hosts, and late night television show hosts have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.