Comedians such as Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Judy Canova, Bob Hope and Red Skelton were top-rated in the decades that followed.

Comedians such as Tim Allen, Denis Leary, Chris Rock and Louis C. K., among many others, have all performed at the TD Garden during their nationwide tours.

In early episodes such as: Home Improvement, Comedians and Stewart's House, Beavis displays signs of being a pyromaniac.

" Comedians, when mocking corporate culture, were certain to use it, along with expressions such as " the whole ball of wax " and the use of invented words ending in "- wise " ( e. g. " We've had a good year, revenuewise ").

Comedians such as George Carlin and Mitch Hedberg used metahumor of this sort extensively in their routines.

The arena is a regular venue for some of the worlds best known Comedians such as Russell Brand, Lee Evans, Ricky Tomlinson, John Bishop, Ricky Gervais and Peter Kay who in 2011 played the arena for 5 nights running with all shows selling out within hours of going on sale.

Comedians from minority groups ( such as Raybon Kan and Jacob Rajan ) often use these differences in their routines.

Hugh Francis " Frank " Carson KSG ( 6 November 1926 – 22 February 2012 ) was a Northern Irish comedian and actor, best known on television in series such as The Comedians and Tiswas.

Granada Television's The Comedians led to similar shows, such as The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club, which was an attempt to bring the northern English working man's club show to television.

Comedians such as Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Dunham have appeared at the arena.

The sketch originally used such reasonable categories as " Celebrities ," " Movies ," and " Popular Music ," but as the celebrities ' ineptitude grew more apparent the categories became more childish, even including categories whose titles suggest that the contestants will be able to infer the correct response without even reading the clues, such as " Colors that End in ' Urple '," " States that Begin with ' Californ '," " Famous ' Kareem Abdul-Jabbars '," " Black Comedians Named ' Whoopi '," and " Drummers Named ' Ringo ,'" and categories that do not require any responses whatsoever, such as " Don't Do Anything " ( where all three contestants are required to remain motionless in order to receive money ), " I Have a Chardonnay " ( where the contestant automatically gets the points and Trebek would get to have a glass of wine ), and " Automatic Points " ( where a contestant is " automatically awarded the points " just for choosing a dollar value from the category ).

Comedians such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and the Marx Brothers often used visual humour because the technology used to record voices in film did not yet exist.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

Comedians to have featured on Jongleurs TV shows include: Jo Brand, Rory Bremner, Julian Clary, Phil Cool, Steve Coogan, Jack Dee, Michael Mcintyre, Peter Kay, Ruby Wax, and Paul Chowdhury.

Comedians who now use his style of humour include, Frankie Boyle, Jim Jeffries, Jimmy Carr, Roy Chubby Brown and Ricky Gervais.

He was one of the more prominent acts on The Comedians alongside the likes of Charlie Williams, Bernard Manning, Mike Reid and Jim Bowen.

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 ;

Comedians, like Lenny Bruce, that since the late 1950s have been labeled " sick comedy " by mainstream journalists, have also been labeled with " black comedy.

Eliza performed until 10 days before Edgar's birth and may have named her second son after the Mr. Edgar who led the Charleston Comedians.

Many other comedians have made cameos on the show as characters, including Brian Posehn, Patton Oswalt, Aziz Ansari, and Zach Galifianakis, who took a break from the Comedians of Comedy tour to tape their parts during the summer of 2005.

Comedians among Stewart Lee, Seann Walsh, Jack Dee and Micky Flanagan have all performed at the theatre in recent years.

Comedians Rip Taylor, Dave Coulier and Ruby Wax have brief appearances in the restaurant scene.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

His career soon received another upturn, though, as he appeared on Rodney Dangerfield's Young Comedians Special, in 1987.

* Comedians Blake Clark and Joey Gaynor appeared in one segment titled " Comedy Store Ghosts.

He was included in the top 50 of E4s 100 Greatest Comedians, and also appeared number 54 on Channel 4's top 100 greatest standups.

She also appeared in the Poker Royale: Comedians vs. Pros series.

Despite being so critical of himself, LaMarche would be granted the opportunity of being part of the 1985 HBO production, Rodney Dangerfield Hosts the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special, on which also appeared Bob Saget, Rita Rudner, Louie Anderson, Yakov Smirnoff, and the breakout first appearance of Sam Kinison.

Comedians Paul Riley and Mark Cox also appeared regularly on the show.

He appeared on a Comedians special of The Weakest Link in 2006, but lost the play-off to Iain Lee.

* One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality ( collection, 1998 ); all but one of the stories in here appeared in either The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians or A Conflagration Artist

He also appeared on HBO's 15th Annual Young Comedians Special in 1992.

DiPaolo has written and performed three stand up specials for Comedy Central Presents, appeared in the HBO Young Comedians Special and an hour-long comedy special Raw Nerve, which he wrote, performed and produced.

After the Everyman, Pryce joined the director Sir Richard Eyre at the Nottingham Playhouse and starred in the Trevor Griffiths play Comedians in a role specially written for his talents, Gethin Price.

Comedians Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg also made early appearances at the venue.

While at the Kabarett der Komiker ( Comedians Cabaret ), she met Norbert Schultze, who had just written the music for " Lili Marleen ".

The second child of Roger Kemble – the manager of the travelling theatre company the Warwickshire Company of Comedians – he was born at Prescot, Lancashire.

He opened in Comedians at the Hammersmith Lyric in October 2009.

The Comedians was another programme which looked back at the live entertainment of the music halls and was also a prototype of many later stand-up comedy series.

He dedicated the fourth volume of the Tatler to Charles, Lord Halifax " from the Hovel at Hampton Wick, April 7, 1711 ", around the time he became Surveyor of the Royal Stables at Hampton Court Palace, Governor of the King's Comedians, a Justice of the Peace and a knight.

Comedians Andy Dick, Will Sasso, and Sherri Shepherd play her co-workers and friends, while Zachary Levi and Andrea Parker play her rivals at work.

On 2 September 2009, aged 82, Carson returned to the stage appearing at the North Pier Theatre midweek season run of The Comedians in Blackpool, where he lived.

This scene also showcased the two emerging sides of British comedy at the time: The Young Ones, representative of the new British ' Punk ' Alternative Comedy scene, against Comedians who represented the new ' Oxbridge ' Comedy Scene.

He went on to star as Gethin Price in Comedians by Trevor Griffiths at the Young Vic ; Killers at the Royal Court, and as Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni at Greenwich.