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 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 BARB the comedy panel game QI has the highest ratings of any show on BBC Four.

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 a tradition preserved in Eastern Christian folklore, Golgotha was the summit of the cosmic mountain at the center of the world and the location where Adam had been both created and buried.

According to German and Danish folklore, the Erlkönig appears as an omen of death, much like the banshee in Irish mythology.

According to Radoš Ljušić, Karađorđe's ancestors most likely hailed from Vasojevići, but has said that there are no certain historical information on Karađorđe's ancestors or where they came from, all is from folklore.

According to folklore, Achong is said to have had Walter Robbins stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the right-hander from outside the off stump.

According to the Nevis Department of Culture, the aim is to protect and encourage indigenous folklore, in order to make sure that the uniquely Caribbean culture can " reassert itself and flourish ".

According to Icelandic folklore, the horseshoe shaped canyon Ásbyrgi located in Jökulsárgljúfur National Park, northern Iceland was formed by Sleipnir's hoof.

According to the folklore of that time, for a samba musician to achieve success, he would have to pass the house of Tia Ciata and be approved on the rodas de samba.

* According to folklore, the Welsh prince Madoc sailes to North America and founds a colony.

According to Balkan folklore, when it rained too much, women would run into the fields and lift their skirts to scare the gods and end the rain.

According to Paul Devereux, the names of various creatures from Celtic folklore, including the Irish, " púca ," Welsh, " pwca " or " pwca ," could be from the same Celtic family as the term " pixies " ( in Cornwall, " Piskies "), however " piskie " could be related to the Swedish word " pyske " meaning " small fairy.

According to the 11th c. Lebor Gabála Érenn ( The Book of the Taking of Ireland ), the 14th c. Auraicept na n-Éces and other Irish folklore, the Irish originated in Scythia and were descendants of Fénius Farsaid, a Scythian prince who created the Ogham alphabet and who was one of the principal architects of the Gaelic language.

According to Chinese folklore, nunchaku are a variation of the two section staff.

According to Hollywood folklore, a screen test report on Astaire for RKO Radio Pictures, now lost along with the test, is reported to have read: " Can't sing.

According to Hebrew folklore, Noah sends a white raven to check conditions while on the ark.

According to folklore, a lychee tree that is not producing much fruit can be girdled, leading to more fruit production.

According to Welsh folklore, their growling is loudest when they are at a distance, and as they draw nearer, it grows softer and softer.

According to folklore, King's Cross is the site of Boudica's final battle and perhaps she is buried under one of the platforms.

According to folklore the cellar was built by a sea captain who missed the sea.

According to this line of thinking, representation of Dylan in Welsh literature and in folklore have been used to infer the attributes of his supposed divine ancient Celtic prototype.

According to Heine, pantheism had been repressed by Christianity and had survived in German folklore.

According to Klein, this fits perfectly in with the Swedish folklore that Charles ’ magical protection, ( in contemporary times, he was rumoured to be of such strong breed and character that he was bullet proof ) had been broken by a killer who shot him with the king ’ s own coat button.

According to area folklore, the travelers had been told they would know they were close to the ocean when they saw palm trees.

According to the State of Georgia and American Indian folklore, Native American braves and their maidens would meet under the oak.

According to folklore, a lost map from 809 made reference to a fiefdom " Bodelo ".

According to local folklore, " Manawa " means " long bow ," and was the name of a Native American killed in a duel near the lower river crossing.