Comedians, such as Ken Dodd, Peter Kay and Jim Davidson, have appeared at the hall, which has also staged televised darts tournaments including the Grand Slam.

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

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.

Comedians and actors use this comedic method as part of their act, e. g. Rodney Dangerfield, Bruce Campbell, Steven Wright, Emo Philips, Tommy Cooper, Mark Linn-Baker, Henny Youngman, Mitch Hedberg, Dan Mintz, Zach Galifianakis, Demetri Martin, Jimmy Carr, Anthony Jeselnik, Tim Vine, Milton Jones, Shmuel Breban, Stewart Francis etc.

* Maria Bamford ( The Comedians of Comedy, Sit Down, Shut Up, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

In 1995, Attell was featured on two HBO specials: alongside up-and-comers Louis C. K., Anthony Clark, Eric Tunney and Dave Chappelle, he was a featured performer on the 1995 Young Comedians Special, hosted by Garry Shandling.

* The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians ( 1970 ) Voice of Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, and W. C Fields ( uncredited )

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.

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.

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 Comedians ' Comedian, he was voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

Comedians and others performing hoaxes often adopt aliases for their performance role.

* McCaffrey, Donald W., 4 Great Comedians: Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton, Langdon ( 1968 ) A. S. Barnes

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

Comedians Rik Mayall, Paul O ' Grady, Julian Clary, David Walliams and Matt Lucas incorporate Polari in their comedy routines.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Hopper, Edward: Two Comedians ( 1966 ); Longo, Robert: Pressure ( 1982 / 83 ); Nauman, Bruce: No No New Museum ( 1987 ; videotape ); Serrano, Andres: A History of Sex ( Head ) ( 1996 ).

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.

Hopper ’ s final oil painting, Two Comedians ( 1966 ), painted one year before his death, focuses on his love of the theater.

Graham Greene's novel The Comedians, set in 1960s Haiti, frequently refers to Samedi.

Here he wrote his first ― but never published ― novel The Poor Man and the Lady in 1867, and the poem " A Young Man's Exhortation ," from which Graham Greene took an epigraph for his own novel, The Comedians.

Comedians of this era often donned an ethnic persona — African, Scottish, German, Jewish — and built a routine based on popular stereotypes.

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

His career in theatre has also been prolific, and he has won two Tony Awards — the first in 1977 for his Broadway debut in Comedians, the second for his 1991 role as " The Engineer " in the musical Miss Saigon.

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.

In a 2005 poll of fellow comedians and comedy insiders to find the Comedians ' Comedian, Monkhouse was voted among the best 50 comedy acts.

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.

) Comedians Daniele Gaither, Nicole Parker, Frank Caeti and Bobby Lee spoofed the series on the season finale of MADtv in 2006.

Comedians Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse and Mark Williams affectionately parodied the band in a number of what the band called ' hysterically accurate ' " Slade in Residence " and " Slade on Holiday " sketches, in their The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer television programme in the early 1990s.

* The " Rottnest Comedy & Short Film Festival " is an event showcasing Western Australian Short Comedy Films, Stand-Up Comedians and Musicians held annually from 2009.

* Mellor, G. J., They Made us Laugh: A Compendium of Comedians Whose Memories Remain Alive ( Littleborough, George Kelsall, 1982 )

This incident has since gone down as one of the favourite stories among British Comedians when the subject of heckling comes up.

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