Comedian and television presenter Bob Saget, a board member of the SRF, directed the 1996 ABC TV movie For Hope, starring Dana Delany, which depicts a young woman fatally affected by scleroderma ; the film was based on the experiences of Saget's sister Gay.

Comedian Bob Hope led a pregame ceremony honoring the Apollo astronauts, while Anita Bryant sang the national anthem.

Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers.

Comedian Bob Hope was also given the same treatment once he began referring to the censoring of Allen.

However, the new record now stands at 40 hours, and was set on 23 September 2010 by the American Comedian Bob Marley.

Mock The Week ( BBC2 ), Have I Got News For You ( BBC1 ), Michael McIntyre ’ s Comedy Roadshow ( BBC1 ), Never Mind The Buzzcocks ( BBC2 ) Argumental ( Dave UKTV ), The Comedy Store ( Comedy Central ), The Politics Show ( BBC1 ), Sex Bombs ( BBC2 Northern Ireland ), Strictly Dancing: It Takes Two ( BBC2 ), Most Annoying People 2009 ( BBC3 ), Most Annoying People 2008 ( BBC3 ), The ONE Show ( BBC1 ), World Rally: Portugal 2009 ( Dave UKTV ), Saturday Night Live ( ITV1 ), Girls Who Do Comedy ( BBC1 ), The Bigger Picture ( BBC1 ), Mock The Week ( Dave UKTV ), The Blame Game ( BBC N. Ireland ), World ’ s Greatest Stand Up ( Ch4 ), The Stand Up Show ( BBC1 ), The World Stands Up ( Comedy Central ), Comic Side Of 7 Days ( BBC3 ), That ’ s So Last Week ( Ch5 ), Stitch Up ( BBC1 ), Best Of The Comedy Store ( Ch5 ), The Comedy Store-series 2, 4 & 6 ( Ch5 ), So Graham Norton ( Ch4 ), Music Hall Meltdown ( BBC4 ), And Then You Die ( Dave UKTV ), Test The Nation ( BBC1 ), Big Brothers Little Brother ( Ch4 ), Back In The Day ( Ch4 ), Bridget Jones Cultural Icon ( ITV ), 100 Greatest Tearjerkers ( Ch4 ), 100 Greatest Christmas Moments ( Ch4 ), The Comedian ’ s Comedian ( Ch4 ), Who Stole Bob Monkhouse ’ s Jokes ( BBC ), Take The Mike ( ITV ), Life ’ s A Pitch ( BBC1 ), Ladies & Gentlemen ( BBC ), The Loafers ( BBC North ), Notes From The Ditch ( BBC South ), The Jack Docherty Show ( Ch5 ), Don ’ t Drink The Water ( BBC Challenge ), You ’ re Not Yourself Today ( BBC ), Five ’ s Company ( Ch5 ),

Comedian Don Bowman is the original host, but by 1978, he would be replaced by Bob Kingsley.

Among them are Leonard Bernstein ( in the 1950s ), Comedian Michael Ian Black, Daryl Hall ( of Hall & Oates ), Jascha Heifetz ( in the 1940s ), Charles Ives, Hope Lange, film director Barry Levinson ( a current resident ), rock singer Meat Loaf ( Marvin Lee Aday who was Joel Barlow High School softball coach while his daughters attended the school during the 1990s ), actress Jessica Tandy and her husband Hume Cronyn ( in the 1940s and 1950s ) and Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary.

His headstone reads: Known as Brother Theodore / Solo Performer, Comedian, Metaphysician / " As Long As There is Death, There Is Hope "

Comedian Mike Myers was to play the main role.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedians ' Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was in the top 50 comedy acts voted for by comedians and comedy insiders.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedians ' Comedian, he was voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

" Shit " was one of the original " Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV ", a comedy routine by American Comedian George Carlin.

Comedian Richard Lewis stated that Keaton was his prime inspiration, and spoke of having a close friendship with Keaton's widow Eleanor.

* Comedian Patrice O ' Neal was named after Lumumba.

* Comedian and presenter Griff Rhys Jones appeared as himself in July 2004, when he was drafted into Lynda's campaign to restore the Cat and Fiddle pub.

In a 2005 poll to find " The Comedians ' Comedian " ( UK ), he was voted 21 in the top 50 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

* Idle was voted the 21st favourite comedian out of 50 in The Comedian's Comedian 2005 poll by comedians and comedy insiders.

The blue plaques read " Peter Sellers, Actor and Comedian was born here "

He was voted as the 16th greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders in a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian.

* Comedian Jimmy Carr was born in Hounslow

* In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted as the fourth greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

Comedian Milton Jones was born and brought up in Kew.

Comedian Jerry Clower was a native of Liberty, Mississippi, who immortalized the fictitious Ledbetter Amite County family ( based on his memories of real people ) with his comedy sketches.

* Comedian Jeff Foxworthy was raised here and graduated from Hapeville High School.

Comedian and nightclub owner Rodney Dangerfield was born and raised in Deer Park.

Comedian Donna Jean Young, whose career was built upon her material related to East McKeesport and " Woolmerding " ( as she pronounced and spelled Wilmerding in her act ), was a resident of Broadway Extension, Arlington Plan, North Versailles Township.

Comedian Phil Hartman ( who during his career as a graphic artist had designed several America album covers ) was featured as the voice of a televangelist preacher on " Playing God ".

Comedian Steve Allen, who was in the audience, remembered that Harpo – after announcing his retirement from the stage – kept talking for several minutes to the theater audience about his career and how he would miss it all, and he kept verbally cutting Sherman off when he tried to speak.

# Comedian Steve Martin is technically a one hit wonder for his novelty song King Tut, but was previously and subsequently far better known for his work as a comedy writer / stand-up comedian / actor.

Comedian / actor Denis Leary portrayed Whouley in the 2008 HBO movie Recount.

Throughout the 1950s he directed over 140 episodes of shows like Playhouse 90, Climax !, and Danger, including The Comedian, written by Rod Serling and starring Mickey Rooney as a ragingly vicious television comedian.

** Comedian George Carlin is arrested by Milwaukee police for public obscenity, for reciting his " Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television " at Summerfest.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, the duo were voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

* Voted by fellow comedians and comedy insiders as number 23 of the greatest comedy stars ever in a poll to select The Comedian's Comedian.

In a 2005 poll to find the Comedians ' Comedian, she was voted amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

She appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the 1957 live CBS-TV broadcast of The Comedian, a harrowing drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer.

Late in 2007, Manuel Andrack was replaced by Comedian Oliver Pocher, who had a more active part than his predecessor, and some other elements changed as well.

Comedian and actor Ronnie Barker ( 1929 – 2005 ) began his acting career in the town in the late 1940s and in September 2010, almost five years after his death, a bronze statue of him was unveiled by actor David Jason and Barker's one time co-star Ronnie Corbett ( the other half of the Two Ronnies ) on a new public place in Exchange Street.

This was filmed by a group of amateur enthusiasts who were disappointed that there was no distribution deal in place because of the commercial failure of the Standup Comedian DVD and the controversial nature of the new show's material.

These " enthusiastic amateurs " became GoFasterStripe and, having set themselves up in order to film the show, have gone on to film the works of many other " non-mainstream " comedians, including sets from Tony Law ( Lee's support act on the 2009 If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One tour ), Simon Munnery ( whose BBC television comedy series-Attention Scum-was directed by Lee ) and several by Lee's former partner Richard Herring.

Lee's second book, How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian, was published by Faber and Faber on 5 August 2010.

In January 2005, Connolly came 8th in The Comedian's Comedian, a poll voted for by fellow comedians and comedy insider and embarked on a major UK tour with 15 sold-out nights in Glasgow.

Later in the year, Connolly topped an unscientific poll of " Britain's Favourite Comedian " conducted by TV network Five, placing him ahead of performers such as John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, Dawn French, and Peter Cook.

Most of Robert Frost's narrative and conversational poems are in blank verse ; so are other important poems like Wallace Stevens's " The Idea of Order at Key West " and " The Comedian as the Letter C ", W. B. Yeats's " The Second Coming ", W. H. Auden's " The Watershed " and John Betjeman's Summoned by Bells.