The show, which lasted for 871 performances during its initial run, featured sketches written by Mad regulars Stan Hart and Larry Siegel interspersed with comedic songs ( one of which was written by an uncredited Stephen Sondheim ).

In Japanese pop culture, harisen are featured in anime and graphic novels as comedic weapons.

Like The Kingston Trio, these groups all featured tight vocal harmonies, mildly comedic stage routines, and a repertoire of professionally arranged folk music and topical song, aimed at a mainstream, popular audience.

In the March 13 episode of Saturday Night Live Season 1, he is one of the audience cutaway shots ( usually featured in the early seasons with comedic and fictitious non-sequitur captions as to whom the audience member was, or what they did ).

A several-day event showcasing the comedic talents of college students both inside and outside WPI, the festival has featured the school's three comedy troupes, KILROY Sketch Comedy, Guerilla Improv, and

Their success led to appearances on the television show Late Night with Conan O ' Brien performing one of their original songs as well as being featured in a comedic skit.

The show's style of humor revolved mainly around the cast members ' character acting and high energy, and featured a broad range of comedic styles from satire to forays into absurdism, although the absurdist element was not played up as much until the third season.

Despite being comedic in nature, the videos featured violence against parents and teachers, which placed the band under heavy criticism by conservative organizations.

In spite of being designed as a sketch comedy television program, the series is set in a fictional universe in which it also is broadcast as a popular television comedy as evidenced through staged mishaps with members of the viewing audience and performers featured the program and comedic sub-plots involving Amanda's unhealthily obsessed, nerdy, feckless self-proclaimed " Number One Fan " Penelope Tate, who has prioritized devising schemes that will assist her in achieving her lifelong goal of meeting Amanda before all else and her multiple failed attempts at landing a meeting with the hostess of the series ( as a gag, Amanda Bynes actually portrays Penelope in reality and the pair are never shown onscreen together ).

The latter featured Cardiacs ( and various people connected with them ) in bizarre, comedic situations which continued to propagate the absurdist Alphabet Business Concern mythology which surrounded the band.

His Gilbert and Sullivan roles for Opera Australia include the featured comedic role of " Ko-Ko " in The Mikado ( 2004 / 2009 ), " Archibald Grosvenor " in Patience ( 1996 ), " Pirate King " in The Pirates of Penzance ( 2006-2007 / 2010 ) and in the 2005 double-bill of Trial by Jury ( as the " Learned Judge ") and H. M. S.

The series is a comedic parody of 1970s action-television shows like Starsky & Hutch and Charlie's Angels, and showcases BMW's " Mini-Cooper " line of cars as the featured product.

SoundLink magazines were performed by members of various comedic troupes such as All Night Nippon, Bakusho Mondai, Hikaru Ijuin, etc., and often featured special guests.

It featured the cream of Britain's comedic talent of the era, setting a precedent that would inspire many subsequent Amnesty galas, as well as Comic Relief.

Also featured were the comedic Coach Cuddles Ford ( played by Patrick Ford ), and two animated characters, Harry Hog and Body Man, voiced by Michael Magee.

His act featured him as a character similar to the Gomer Pyle character he would later portray: he would sing in a baritone and sometimes speak in his higher-pitched comedic voice.

Cadence had another major hit in 1962 with comic Vaughn Meader's album The First Family, which featured Meader's comedic sketches and his peerless impersonations of President John F. Kennedy.

In addition to showing off her comedic side, the film showcased her musical talents and featured half of the songs from her 1984 album Let's Dance Tonight.

These films featured such over-the-top gore that it became a comedic device.

His comedic singing has even been featured on The Doctor Demento Show.

Jönssonligan, literally the Jönsson League, is featured in a series of comedic Swedish films.

Each week, the show featured unrelated stories of romance, usually with a comedic spin.

The episode of the comic strip Zogonia featured in Issue # 341 of Dragon Magazine was a comedic homage to the painting.

Although he appeared in many dramatic roles, he may be best remembered for his " crusty " comedic characters such as Staff Sergeant Luther Rizzo in M * A * S * H ( TV-Series 1979-83 ); Lieutenant — and later, Captain — Thaddeus Harris in Police Academy ( 1984 – 94 ), Captain Felix Maxwell in Mannequin ( 1987 ) and as Detective Lieutenant Louie Provenza from TNT's television crime drama The Closer, in which he has was featured in all 109 aired episodes across seven seasons, starting in 2005.

According to Milligan, the columns had been an influence on the comedic style of his radio series, The Goon Show.

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

Jerry Lewis, 2005Lewis has suffered from a variety of illnesses and addictions related both to aging and a back injury sustained in a comedic pratfall from a piano while performing at the Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip on March 20, 1965.

These pictures also offered a kind of cultural escape valve: a safe battleground on which to explore serious issues like class under a comedic ( and non-threatening ) framework.

After Franco's death, Chevy Chase, reader of the news on NBC's Saturday Nights comedic news segment Weekend Update, announced the dictator's death and read a quotation from Richard Nixon: " General Franco was a loyal friend and ally of the United States.

First aired in 1979 on ITV, the series saw Pertwee as a scarecrow, as well as utilising several comedic voices.

" In several interviews he later reflected on the significance of the comedic line: " I thought it was amusing, but it never occurred to me that it was going to become a trademark.

" The comedic exchange was at # 79 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes.

He performed serious roles on screen and stage ( such as his one-man theatre show Darrow, in which he played Clarence Darrow ), as well as providing voice-overs and on-camera appearances for commercials ; cartoons like Zeroman where he had the leading role / voice ; children's shows, such as Pumper Pups, which he narrated, in addition to comedic film roles.

It was on Hollywood Squares that Lynde was best able to showcase his comedic talents with short, salty one-liners, delivered in his trademark sniggering delivery.

In Germany, comedic theatre performances and events which include public dancing are illegal on the day ( although this restriction is enforced unevenly ); cinemas and television are not affected, although many TV channels show religious material on the day ; sports events are prohibited ( e. g. the usual Friday soccer games are played on Thursday ).

While there are comedic legal dramas that usually deal less with murder cases and more on cases that deal with issues such as divorce, sex, cheating and accidents portrayed in a comedic fashion.

After some friction, a comedic food fight between the two leaders and a deal between the two leaders on which Hynkel immediately reneges, his invasion proceeds.

Weaver was heard on Jones's 1947-49 radio shows, where he introduced his comedic Professor Feetlebaum ( which Weaver sometimes spelled as Feitlebaum ), a character who spoke in Spoonerisms.

* Notably playing against type, Hearst played a crack-addicted prostitute on an episode of the comedic Son of the Beach.

Comedians Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong ( better known as the comedic duo Cheech and Chong ) have stated that NBC president Brandon Tartikoff sent series creator James Komack to follow the comedians on tour for three months ;

While disappointing on the narrative level the film nevertheless is a showcase for the rare gem that is early Kiwi comedy, highlighting a penchant for comedic understatment, an emphasis on New Zealand speech patterns ( verbal reversals and wordplay ) and the ironic stabs at the obvious.

From this comedic segue, the film opens on a writer for television advertising, Rockwell P. Hunter ( Tony Randall ), who is low on the ladder at the La Salle agency, the company where he works.