Writer / director Todd Solondz, a favorite cult director, had his first major success with the black comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse ( 1995 ), a brutally-honest look at the persecution of a young junior high student by her classmates.

'" Writer Jay Kogen praised her performance on the show, particularly in the episode " Lisa's Substitute ", as able " to move past comedy to something really strong and serious and dramatic.

Writer / director Peter Bogdanovich has noted that after this movie, when it came to light comedy, " there was Cary Grant and everyone else was an also-ran.

* Daniel O ' Brien ( born 1987 ), editor and Senior Writer for the comedy website Cracked. com

* Writer / director James Gunn has said that the geoduck was an inspiration for the slug-like alien parasites in his 2006 horror / comedy Slither.

Writer David Nobbs went on to create the Channel 4 comedy series Fairly Secret Army, whose lead character, Harry, was inspired, if not directly related to, the Perrin character of Jimmy, and played by the same actor.

Writer / Producer of NBC comedy Up All Night.

; Writer of satire and comedy

Yuk Yuk's founder Mark Breslin, SCTV's Robin Duke, Cindy Block, Shawn Campbell, Canada's foremost comedy historian Andrew Clark, David Flaherty, Writer Lorne Frohman, Comedian Larry Horowitz, choreographer Jen Johnson, multiple Dora Award-nominee Melody A. Johnson, Mike Kennard, Frank McAnulty, Laura McGhee, David Talbot, Robert Trick.

" That Lady " is also heard in the crime-drama film Blood In Blood Out ( 1993 ), comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ( 2004 ) and Episode 104 " Jack the Writer " of 30 Rock.

( 2001 ) ( TV program )-( Writer / Actor )-A political comedy spoofing George W. Bush ( Appeared in one episode ).

* Television writer Bryan Tucker ( as Off the Cuff sketch comedy actor ) ( Writer for Chappelle Show, Saturday Night Live ).

Writer Michael Markowitz noted ( in Sep 1998 ): " We never formally planned Part II ... and I'll never tell what I personally had in mind.

Writer Thomas Dekker wrote in The Guls Hornebooke ( 1609 ):

* 1994 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist ( Writer / Artist ): Jeff Smith

* 1995 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist ( Writer / Artist ): Jeff Smith

* 1996 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist ( Writer / Artist ): Jeff Smith

* 1997 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist ( Writer / Artist ): Jeff Smith

* 1999 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist ( Writer / Artist ): Jeff Smith, for his body of work in 1998, including Bone

* 2000 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist ( Writer / Artist ): Jeff Smith

* 2003 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist ( Writer / Artist ): Jeff Smith

* 2005 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist ( Writer / Artist ): Jeff Smith

* Writer ( Drama ): Jack Thorne and Shane Meadows ( This is England ' 86 )

* Writer ( Comedy ): Jo Brand, Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan ( Getting On )

* Writer ( drama ): Peter Bowker ( Eric and Ernie )

** Writer and producer – from True Blue ( 1986 ): " Live to Tell " " La Isla Bonita ", " Where's the Party ", " White Heat ", " Love Makes the World Go Round "; from Who's That Girl ( 1987 ): " Who's That Girl ", " The Look of Love " ( 1987 ); from Like a Prayer ( 1989 ): " Like a Prayer ", " Cherish ", " Till Death Do Us Part ", " Promise to Try ", " Pray for Spanish Eyes ", " Act of Contrition ", " Dear Jessie ", " Oh Father "; from I'm Breathless ( 1990 ): " Hanky Panky ", " Cry Baby ", " He's a Man ", " Now I'm Following You " and " Something to Remember " ( which was also used as the title for the 1995 ballad compilation Something to Remember ); from With Honors ( 1994 ): " I'll Remember "; from Ray of Light ( 1998 ): " Frozen ", " Nothing Really Matters ", " Has to Be ", " Supernatural ", " Sky Fits Heaven ", " Skin "

* Xenogears ( 1998 ): Director, Scenario Writer

* Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht ( 2002 ): Director, Scenario Writer

* Xenosaga: Pied Piper ( 2004 ): Story Writer

* Xenosaga I & II ( 2006 ): Scenario Writer

* Xenoblade Chronicles ( 2010 ): Concept, Executive Director, Scenario Writer

Writer Sam Harris has also argued that ethics could be objectively grounded in an understanding of neuroscience.

* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.

Writer Sam Humphries revealed in an interview that Bishop would be back in our timeline and would be one of the first enemies of the new incarnation of Uncanny X-Force.

In 2005 Varsity writer Sam Richardson won the Guardian's Student Diversity Writer of the Year award.

* Jeff Bennett as Charles " Crunchy " Granville, Fritz, Mr. Keenan, Roderick Kingston, Writer, Mister B, Scar, Guard, Earnest Bailey, Mr. B, Sam, General Nessmeyer

Writer Sam Shepard dedicated his 1983 play Fool for Love to Pearson.

In 2009, Sam Hancock was nominated for Best Travel Writer.

* Sam Lacy Legacy Award – " Baseball Writer of the Year "

Writer Douglas Kahn, in his work Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts ( 1999 ), discusses the use of noise as a medium and explores the ideas of Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.

The same experience was described as early as 1767 by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in his comedy Minna von Barnhelm ( 3, 7 ): “ Mehr als Wachtmeister zu werden?

His first major comedy role was in The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ): with Alfie Bass he made up the bullion robbery gang headed by Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway.

The first recorded instance of the word in the English language was in Dekker's comedy The Honest Whore, Part 2 ( 1604 ): " As for your Irish lubrican, that spirit / Whom by preposterous charms thy lust hath rais'd / In a wrong circle.

She returned to Paramount to make another romantic comedy, Angel ( directed by Ernst Lubitsch ): reception to the film was so lukewarm that Paramount bought out the remainder of Dietrich's contract.

* The Goon Show ( 1951 – 1960 ): Highly influential comedy series with elements of surrealism.

* Hancock's Half Hour ( 1954 – 1960 ): Influential comedy series which transferred to television.

* The News Quiz ( 1977 – present ): Topical comedy show

* Comedy Festival Gent ( since 2007 ): comedy festival at JOC Rabot, which also hosts a few English-speaking shows.

* Arctic Monkeys ( Series Six, Episode One ): Culshaw lampoons the vocal style, before revealing the Northern comedy singer George Formby as the real secret of their success.

In Book III of his Republic ( c. 373 BCE ), Plato examines the style of poetry ( the term includes comedy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry ): All types narrate events, he argues, but by differing means.

In Book III of his Republic ( c. 373BC ), the ancient Greek philosopher Plato examines the " style " of " poetry " ( the term includes comedy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry ): All types narrate events, he argues, but by differing means.

This latter is the method of tragedy ( and comedy ): without use of any narrator.

In 1688, Shadwell ’ s Squire of Alsatia initiated the return to a Horatian prodesse in comedy, which had already been put forth in the Preface to The Humorist ( 1671 ): " My design was it, to reprehend some of the Vices and Follies of the Age, which I take to be the most proper, and most useful way of writing Comedy " ( The Complete Works of Thomas Shadwell, ed.

* Overnight Sensation ( 2000 ): Caulfield had a role in this comedy about a young filmmaker's journey to seek success at the Sundance Film Festival.

* Teenagers from Outer Space ( R. Talsorian ): A wild anime high school comedy game.

): A comedy called Susenbrotus.