The theme tune for the series was written and performed by The Divine Comedy, and was later reworked into " Songs of Love ", a track from the album Casanova.

They have entered two plays into the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D. C .. Their 2007 show, For Boston, won " Best Comedy ", and their second show, The Sticking Place, won " Best Overall " in 2008.

During The Who's 1967 appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour US television show, Moon hid explosives into one of his bass drums.

In order to understand the Greek New Comedy of Menander and its similarities to Plautus, it is necessary to discuss, in juxtaposition with it, the idea of Greek Old Comedy and its evolution into New Comedy.

Shakespeare also incorporated many chase scenes and beatings into his comedies, such as in his play The Comedy of Errors.

In 1970, Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt adapted the play into a German language comedy entitled Titus Andronicus: Komödie nach Shakespeare ( Titus Andronicus: A Comedy After Shakespeare ).

In the first year only, the award was separated into Dramatic Direction and Comedy Direction.

The Human Comedy was also adapted into a 1984 Broadway musical by Galt MacDermot, composer of the musical Hair, and William Dumaresq.

Tudor drama, in particular, modeled itself after classical ideals and divided works into Tragedy and Comedy.

Comedy clubs are usually broken down by comedians into " A rooms ", " B rooms " and " C rooms "

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour started out as only a slightly " hip " version of the typical comedy-variety show of its era, but rapidly evolved into a show that extended the boundaries of what was considered permissible in television satire.

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the Hadith and the Kitab al-Miraj ( translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before as Liber Scale Machometi, " The Book of Muhammad's Ladder ") concerning Muhammad's ascension to Heaven, and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi.

In 1997 the Academy Award for Best Original Score was split up into two categories: Dramatic and Musical or Comedy.

It was a natural transition when she made her way into standup comedy, headlining as a successful comedienne in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York, and eventually touring across the country with her popular “ Comedy PJ Party ,” an on-stage slumber party with a number of comedic talents.

In addition, Leino was the first person in Finland to translate Dante's Divine Comedy into Finnish.

Stevens ' We the People CD made its Top-10 debut on the Billboard Comedy Album chart for the week ending June 26, 2010, and it moved into the Top-5 for the week ending July 3, 2010.

Comedy Central entered into an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television to syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as 16 new, half-hour episodes, comprising a fifth broadcast season.

Dr. Demento has been inducted into both the Comedy Music Hall of Fame ( in June 2005 ) and the National Radio Hall of Fame ( in November 2009 ).

* In a standup comedy routine in Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For the Road Larry the Cable Guy, referring to strange people who go to Wal-Mart in the middle of the night, says that it " turns into Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks.

One of these suppliers was ultimately the one that offered the film to Comedy Central, after which it found its way into a box of films sent to Frank Conniff in 1992, when he chose Manos as one of the films to be shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

He persuaded the double acts and Sayle to move from the Comedy Store along with Arnold Brown, an older standup comic who did not fit so obviously into the alternative comedy scene.

First in the 1979 The New Shmoo ( later incorporated into Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo ), and again from 1980 to 1984 in the Flintstone Comedy Show, in the Bedrock Cops segment.

In 2005, Barnes & Barnes were inducted into the Comedy Music Hall of Fame.

There is also some evidence that, during his old age, he wrote plays in the style of New Comedy.

However, about 80 % of his plays have been lost and even the extant plays don't present a fully consistent picture of his ' spiritual ' development ( for example, Iphigenia at Aulis is dated with the ' despairing ' Bacchae, yet it contains elements that became typical of New Comedy ).

He followed this up with a critically acclaimed performance in Martin Scorsese's 1983 film, The King of Comedy, in which Lewis plays a late-night TV host plagued by obsessive fans ( played by Robert De Niro and Sandra Bernhard ).

These men modeled their comedies on Greek plays known as New Comedy.

Greek New Comedy greatly differs from those plays of Aristophanes.

The risk-taking for which Aristophanes is known is noticeably lacking in the New Comedy plays of Menander.

The Plautine and Shakespearean plays that most parallel each other are, respectively, The Menaechmi and The Comedy of Errors.

Pierre Louis Duchartre, in his The Italian Comedy theorizes that in France, the gentilified Brighella eventually culminated in the character of Figaro, known from the plays and operas.

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Bill Cotton in an interview with author Graham McCann on 6 June 2000 said that the then director of BBC Comedy, Michael Mills, prompted by the plays of Plautus, came up with the idea for the show for Frankie Howerd.

This can be seen in his television plays for LWT in the late 1970s and the BBC in the early 1980s and in the 1987 Talking Heads series of monologues for television which were later performed at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1992.

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The Knights is one of the earliest of Aristophanes ' surviving plays and generally it obeys the conventions of Old Comedy.

Stephanus, Athenian comic poet of the New Comedy, is said to have exhibited some of the plays of Antiphanes and was probably his son.

He supported himself by adapting Greek plays for the Roman stage from the New Comedy writers, especially Menander, a genre called Palliata Comoedia.

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Nearly 800 writers and 2500 separate works are referred to by Athenaeus ; one of his characters ( not necessarily to be identified with the historical author himself ) boasts of having read 800 plays of Athenian Middle Comedy alone.

Category: Comedy plays

Category: Comedy plays

Category: Comedy plays