According to the Guardian, the show peaked with 56, 000 viewers, but subsequently viewing figures were the lowest recorded, with just 6, 000 tuning in, a figure leaving it close to a zero rating in the BARB audience measurement system.

According to Linehan, Father Ted was a character created by Mathews for Paul Woodfull, when the three men performed together as The Joshua Trio on the comedy circuit in Ireland.

According to Jeff Evans, On the Buses is a " cheerfully vulgar comedy " in which " leering and innuendo dominate.

According to Rushton's widow, his last words included a message to his long-time friend and comedy partner, Barry Cryer: " Tell Bazza he's too old to do pantomime.

" According to Variety, the film's " transition from serious or melodramatic to the slap-happy and humorous sometimes is a bit awkward, but in the main it is solid escapist comedy.

According to Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, clysters were so popular at the court of King Louis XIV of France that the duchess of Burgundy had her servant give her a clyster in front of the King ( her modesty being preserved by an adequate posture ) before going to the comedy.

Estrada also made guest appearances on The Wayans Bros., Unhappily Ever After, the Nickelodeon comedy Drake & Josh, NBC's Scrubs and ABC's According to Jim.

According to comedy folklore, after a reviewer once criticised his act for its lack of jokes, Bailey returned the following night, at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, to perform a set composed entirely of punchlines.

According to Hegel it belongs to its second form of comedy, based on the contradiction between the noble intention and the insignificant individual who tries to bring this intention to fruition.

According to a 1925 newspaper article, he also made a solo appearance in the Adolphe Menjou comedy A Kiss in the Dark, but no copy of the film is known to exist, and it is not clear if he actually appeared in the finished film.

According to Melchiori, scholars have often assumed that this play, the title of which was not stated in the letter of 15 April 1598 from George Nicolson ( Elizabeth I's Edinburgh agent ) to Lord Burghley noting the public unrest, was a comedy ( one that does not survive ), but the play's portrayal of Scots is so virulent that it is likely that the play was, officially or unofficially, banned, and left forgotten by Heminges and Condell.

In the 2000s, Kazurinsky guest-starred on popular comedy series such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and According to Jim.

" According to Lawrence, the ninth season will " be a lot like Paper Chase as a comedy ", with Cox and Turk's students occasionally rotating through the halls of Sacred Heart and encountering former series regulars.

" According to one writer, he directed it " to prove he could also handle comedy ," and hired many of the leading comedic actors of the previous decades, from silent star Buster Keaton to emerging talent Jonathan Winters.

According to Mel Welles, Corman was not impressed by the box office performance of A Bucket of Blood, and had to be persuaded to direct another comedy.

According to the trade magazine, Broadcast, Gold " has secured a budget running into " double-digit millions " to create a raft of new comedy shows over the next two years.

* According to John Madden's 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, the play that became Romeo and Juliet was originally intended as a comedy, but developed into the tragic play we know due to a doomed love affair which Shakespeare himself underwent at the time.

According to Miller, Peter Sellers quietly paid Southern tens of thousands of dollars to create some of the best-known comedy bits for Sellers ' character Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther film series.

According to the festival's co-founder, John Pinder, the idea of holding an international comedy festival originated in the early 1980s.

According to several sources, his last words, when a friend at his bedside remarked that " It is hard to die ," were: " But it is harder to do comedy.

" According to Leigh, Geffcken identifies Cicero with “ the wiles and verbal ingenuity of the comic hero ” and in effect “ the jury becomes complicit in his successful bid to talk his young associate Caelius out of a distinctly tricky situation .” Leigh postulates that Cicero in Pro Caelio attempts to make the jury study what he claims to be the central issues in the case, as if they were watching a comedy.

According to former Western Publishing writer Mark Evanier, during the mid-1960s comedy writer Jerry Belson ( whose writing partner at the time was Garry Marshall ), while writing for leading TV sitcoms like The Dick Van Dyke Show, also did scripts for Gold Key.

According to Steven Spielberg's appearance in the documentary Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Kubrick suggested that 1941 should have been marketed as a drama rather than a comedy.

According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the " Road to ..." comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con-artists / adventurers.

Çandar notes that the Agos issue published on the day of the murder of Hrant Dink featured a Dink commentary on the Turkish government's handling of the Akdamar issue, which the late journalist characterized as " A real comedy ... A real tragedy ..." According to Dink,

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

According to the report, a 15-member panel, called the Special Study Group, was set up in 1963 to examine what problems would occur if the United States entered a state of lasting peace.

According to Kristian Hoffman, " Timur sang Total Eclipse to the utter befuddlement of the panel of judges, with the exception of Sharon Osbourne who gave some encouragement ".

According to a US panel, attacks on Bahá ' ís in Iran have increased since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president as well as Sunni Muslims.

According to their report: " Initially, Robert Groden, a photographic consultant to the committee advised the panel as to pertinent photographic issues and related materials.

According to the official website, " The awards are judged by a cross-party panel looking for evidence of influence on public policy and on the public discourse.

According to publisher King Features Syndicate, it is the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world, appearing in 1, 500 newspapers.

According to Zimmerman, the idea of the panel " is to really take those grumblings and mutterings and bring them out into the light, speak truth to power, cut through to the real s ***, and talk about what is going on in our industry -- what's wrong and what we can do to change it.

According to the panel, efforts should continue toward developing a noninvasive approach to gallstone treatment that will not only eliminate existing stones, but also prevent their formation or recurrence.

According to Aburish, Orabi and Assad were " close friends " and Assad appointed a panel to investigate what happened.

According to a GMH Price List dated 25 January 1979, a basic HZ Holden panel van was priced at A $ 6, 076, with the Sandman option package an additional A $ 1, 700.

According to the review panel, investigations by major news outlets at the time, including CBS, " revealed inconsistencies ... which led to questions regarding his credibility and whether his claims could be proven.

According to the FDA, " Food manufacturers are allowed to list amounts of trans fat with less than 0. 5 gram ( 1 / 2 g ) per serving as 0 ( zero ) on the Nutrition Facts panel.

According to Aaron Archer at the BotCon 2010 Activision panel Hot Rod is credited as Hot Shot due to Hot Rod being an unprotectable name.

He was later released in 1984 by Hasbro in the U. S. According to a panel discussion at BotCon 2005, the original Wheeljack mold is " no longer available ," and is most likely destroyed, limiting the likelihood of a future reissue of the toy.

According to a historical series published in Picture Frame Magazine, these early " framed panel paintings were made from one piece.

' According to The New Republic, ' an army psychiatrist warned that he wasn't fit for weapons or uniform, but his professional judgment was awaiting approval by a panel of medical experts that was not very swift in assembling ' and that a ' former chief of staff of the IDF ' had ' speculated that the killer's parents might have a chance to win damages in court for neglect by the army of the welfare of their son.

According to TBW's history of the MSC, this was the magazine's first explicit acknowledgment that such a panel existed.