" Derek Fowlds posited to a concerned Eddington that these speeches were the reason why Hawthorne won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Performance four times in a row, while Eddington, though nominated, didn't win at all.

" Stewart replied, contextualizing his own show as a comedic rather than informational venue, " I didn't realize that [...] the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity.

The hip condition didn't stop Pious from making several television appearances anyway, on shows such as The Colgate Comedy Hour and The Chevrolet Television Theatre.

In 1960 Hermann Scherchen recorded works by Max Reger with alto Margarete Bence and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, including Eine Lustspielouvertüre ( A Comedy Overture ), Serenade for orchestra, Romantic Suite for orchestra, An die Hoffnung, Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven and Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart.

Parker and Stone originally planned for Struthers to die at the end of the episode and have the African children eat her and live off her fat ; Comedy Central executives told the duo they could not kill Struthers, although celebrities have been killed off in subsequent episodes without any objections from the network.

The narrator is met by the writer George MacDonald, whom he hails as his mentor, just as Dante did when encountering Virgil in the Divine Comedy ; and MacDonald becomes the narrator's guide in his journey, just as Virgil became Dante's.

The film was nominated for just one Academy Award: the Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

In Divine Comedy, a character called Thaïs is one of just a few women whom Dante Alighieri sees on his journey through Hell ( Inferno, XVIII, 133-136 ).

Def Jam became just one piece in Simmons ' corporation, Rush Communications, Inc., which included a management company, a clothing company called Phat Farm, a movie production house, television shows such as Def Comedy Jam, a magazine and an advertising agency.

In an interview with CNN, Groening said that " we have a great relationship with Comedy Central and we would love to do more episodes for them, but I don't know ... We're having discussions and there is some enthusiasm but I can't tell if it's just me.

Set in a service station just outside Bolton, made for Channel Four's Comedy Lab.

" In 1373, Boccaccio delivered his famous lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy in the subsidiary chapel of Santo Stefano, just next to the north entrance of the Badia's church.

Owner of the London and Manchester Comedy Stores, he opened a branch in Leeds in 2002, but closed it after just 8 months.

It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 27, 2004, just before the 2004 presidential election.

Aged just fourteen, Nickson was asked by Perkins ( who was also Head of Comedy at the time ) to come and work with the BBC after a few years ; consequently, Nickson created Two Pints when she was just eighteen.

On the 9th anniversary of the album, Slant magazine named Milla's The Divine Comedy to their list of 50 Essential Pop albums, they said: " Though some of the singer's lyrics can err on the loopy side ( the songs were written when she was just 15, recorded when she was 16, and released by the time she was legal, which, I suppose, makes this the sole " teen pop " selection on our Vital Pop list ), Milla's messages are mostly conveyed through passion, not words, a claim only the finest performers can make.

It is inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, and just as Dante's guide was Virgil, Iqbal is guided by Moulana Rumi.

“ I just went next door to get a job ,” he said, “ which was The Comedy Store in San Diego ” ( also known as the La Jolla Comedy Store ).

" However, it had since broadened its content to show programmes from its sister channels MTV, VH1, Nick Jr and Comedy Central, so no longer relied on just music videos.

During its early stages, finished episodes of South Park were hastily recorded to D-2 to be sent to Comedy Central for airing in just a few days ' time.

On 7 May 1974, a Comedy Playhouse pilot called " Happy Ever After " aired on BBC1 with Scott and Whitfield playing Terry and June Fletcher, a middle-class couple whose grown-up children have just left home.

Comedy is reduced to a mere sprinkling, just enough to lighten some of the more dark passages.

He also appeared as Congressman Stewart with Queen Latifah in the 2006 Comedy movie Last Holiday, along with NCIS: Los Angeles cast member LL Cool J ( just like in the case of Avery Brooks of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Jennifer Lien of Star Trek: Voyager when they appeared in the motion picture American History X ).

The Colbert Report is produced by Comedy Central on 54th Street, and The Daily Show, also produced by Comedy Central, is produced just a few blocks over on 11th avenue and West 53rd street.

In October 2004, the Comedy Central website held a poll to determine the top 27 South Park episodes for a television marathon ; " Mr Hankey, the Christmas Poo " came third, just behind " Good Times with Weapons " at number two and " Fat Butt and Pancake Head " at number one.

M * A * S * H earned Gelbart a Peabody Award and an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series and went on to considerable commercial and critical success.

Spacey was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor — Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, but the award went to Jamie Foxx for his portrayal of Darin's musical contemporary Ray Charles.

Merman and Berlin reunited for Call Me Madam in 1950, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, and she went on to star in the 1953 screen adaptation as well, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance.

First coming to prominence as an original cast member on the hit TV comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1975, she went on to win back-to-back Emmy Awards for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series on the 1980s sitcom Kate & Allie portraying the role of Allison " Allie " Lowell.

" The film won Haim his second Young Artist Award ( tying Feldman for the Best Young Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Fantasy award ), and went on to gross over $ 22M domestically.

Comedy sneaked into the plays as time went by and ultimately, puppeteers responded by setting up stages outside cathedrals and became ever more ribald and slapstick.

Hirsch went on to play the title character on the modestly successful sitcom Dear John and in 1989 won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series in a Comedy or Musical for this role.

The series lasted for 26 episodes, at which time Steve and Morag Smith went on to produce another sketch comedy series, The Comedy Mill.

Following the end of The Comedy Mill, Morag retired from active performing as Steve went on to produce The Red Green Show.

After being recruited to work as a producer on ITN's House to House, a political discussion programme on Channel 4, Joly went on to work for The Mark Thomas Comedy Product because of his political knowledge.

" She went on to work with Mary Beth Piel and Ron Rains in " A Little Night Music " at the New York Opera Ensemble, " Quiet on the Set " at the Westbeth Theater, as Hero in " Much Ado About Nothing " at the Lincoln Center Stages, " Comedy of Errors " at the Hudson Theatre Guild, " Barefoot in the Park " at the Westbury Music Fair, " Self Offense " with the Cucaracha Theatre Company, " Inventions of Farewell " at HERE Theatre ( a one woman show directed by Estep Nagy ), and " The Red Address " as Lady, written by David Ives.

After the first season the Smiths went back to sketch comedy, creating the series The Comedy Mill, which ran for four years.

* The 1994 Emmy Award for Writing in a Comedy Series for this episode went to David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee.

She went on to win two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

It went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy which both Merchant and Gervais accepted.

Tripod went on to perform this show at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of 2010.

With this troupe, Debbouze went to the Casino de Paris in 2007 for a new show, le Jamel Comedy Club Envahit le Casino de Paris.

Nick Schenk went on to become one of the writers for the Comedy Central episodes of Let's Bowl and also wrote the screenplay for the film " Gran Torino.

He wrote and mounted his own one-man show called Wood, Cheese and Children which went on to become a special in CTV's Comedy Now!

Lee also went on to work regularly at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, a comedy club owned by Pauly Shore's mother Mitzi.

He built up an early reputation as a Shakespearean clown with portrayals of the Constable in The Comedy of Errors and Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and went on to play the King in Henry VIII.