The 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, a romantic comedy partially inspired by An Affair to Remember, climaxes with a scene at the Empire State observatory.

In addition to the " Super Bowl Shuffle " rap song, the Bears ' success in the 1980s – and especially the personality of head coach Mike Ditka – inspired a recurring sketch on the American sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, called " Bill Swerski's Superfans ".

Among the many inspirations for the film include The Three Stooges and other slapstick comedy films ; Ash's fights with his disembodied hand come from a film made by Spiegel as a teenager, entitled Attack of the Helping Hand, which was itself inspired by television commercials advertising Hamburger Helper.

* The Naggers: Routines with Gordie Tapp and Roni Stoneman as LaVern and Ida Lee Nagger, a backwoods bickering couple, inspired in part by the radio comedy The Bickersons.

Bolstered by an image overhaul — including bleached-blonde hair, frosted lips, heavy eye make-up and Carnaby Street fashions — Sinatra made her mark on the American ( and British ) music scene in early 1966 with " These Boots Are Made for Walkin '", its title inspired by a line in Robert Aldrich's 1963 western comedy 4 for Texas starring her father and Dean Martin.

The playwright ’ s apparent familiarity with the absurdity of humanity and both the comedy and tragedy that stem from this absurdity have inspired succeeding playwrights centuries after his death.

The pair began working as tradesmen on a house shared by comedians Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, which inspired them to start writing comedy.

While watching a preview tape of highlights from Enfield's show, Whitehouse and Higson were inspired to create a rapid-fire delivery comedy show, The Fast Show.

Risus ( Latin for “ laughter ”) is a comedy game ( often described by its creator as a " joke game ") and uses a cliché ( character class ) system inspired by the broad " career scale " skills in Greg Gorden's DC Heroes RPG ( Mayfair Games ), and later influenced by Atlas Games ' Over the Edge.

The Calvi affair also inspired the comedy film The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) in which a naive priest, played by Robbie Coltrane is unexpectedly made Pope and takes on a mafia dominated Vatican.

Plautus ' play inspired several other theatrical works during the 16th century, including 3 Spanish language plays, 2 Italian plays, and a comedy in Portuguese by Luís de Camões.

Another Guardian critic, Peter Bradshaw, named it the best comedy film of all time, commenting that " this wonderfully funny, unbearably sad film is a miracle of comic writing and inspired film-making ".

Brief Encounter also loosely inspired Mum's Army, an episode of the British comedy series Dad's Army.

The iconic depiction of Chaplin working frantically to keep up with an assembly line inspired later comedy routines including Disney's Der Fuehrer's Face ( Donald Duck alternately assembling artillery shells and saluting portraits of Adolf Hitler ) and an episode of I Love Lucy titled " Job Switching " ( Lucy and Ethel trying to keep up with an ever-increasing volume of chocolate candies, eventually stuffing them in their mouths, hats, and blouses ).

After being inspired by the television show Second City Television while in high school, Stiller realized that he wanted to get involved with sketch comedy.

In a period where ideas for cartoons had run dry ( comedy was heavily scrutinized for violence, and everything else seemed to copy the popular Scooby-Doo format ), Filmation's strong point was its adaptations of popular TV shows, movies and other works, although at least one show, " M * U * S * H " ( the third animated segment on Uncle Croc's Block ), while not a direct adaptation was inspired by the film ( and later TV series ) M * A * S * H.

The most successful television situation comedy also to be a black comedy is M * A * S * H, which, like the film version of M * A * S * H that had inspired it, treated the Korean War as a subject of black comedy ; it deliberately kept recorded laughter out of the operating room sequences, and many of the episodes described the absurdity of many combat situations, even in sequences where the characters were weathering hostile fire.

Top Cat and his gang were inspired by characters from the popular situation comedy You'll Never Get Rich ( later called The Phil Silvers Show ).

The new version, inspired by the BBC comedy TV show Gavin & Stacey, was created to benefit the charity Comic Relief.

The characters and the baseball park settings are apparently inspired by Ring Lardner's well-known baseball short story " Alibi Ike " ( 1915 ), filmed in 1935 as the comedy Alibi Ike, starring Joe E. Brown in the title role and Olivia de Havilland in her film debut.

* The climatic scene in the Big Ben clock tower pays homage to the 1978 film The Thirty Nine Steps, which was itself inspired by a scene in the 1943 Will Hay comedy My Learned Friend.

The play has been adapted into a 1927 silent film, 1975 stage musical, and 2002 movie musical ( which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), all with that title, and a 1942 romantic comedy film, Roxie Hart, named for the character Annan inspired.

Molly is a colorful character all right, and the screen, which is as wide as can be, is filled with vivid colors that help project the fact that this is merely a satisfying musical comedy and not an inspired subject.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

His other major film from this period is the slasher comedy Murder a la Mod.

In 1986, the film was featured in the syndicated series, the Canned Film Festival and was later featured on the comedy series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, which also featured other Wood films.

He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

The plot of the comedy is often concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal.

A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films.

Movies still included slapstick humour and other physical comedy, but these were now frequently supplemental to the verbal interaction.

He wrote other tragedies for a time, but he was not long in discovering that his bent was for comedy.

Many aspiring comedians who dream of becoming the next Russell Peters and Jerry Seinfeld never see the inside of a movie or television studio, but rather spend most of their careers doing stand-up in comedy clubs and other small venues, hoping to be discovered.

The humour in clowning comes from the self-deprecating actions of the performer, rather than the audience laughing with the performer as is common with other forms of comedy.

The Rank Organisation also produced some other notable comedy successes, such as Genevieve in 1953 ( see 1953 in film ).

It also included figures such as Mick Jagger, and Paul Simon as themselves, although it also included other members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles playing various characters as well as numerous recognizable comedy actors, so there was no real intent to fool the audience.

In 1969, Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons including Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin for their sketch comedy show Flying Circus.

He described Jack Benny as " very warm and approachable [...] He was a guy who dug the idea of other people on the show getting laughs, which sort of spoiled me for other people in comedy.

This Is Spinal Tap and other mockumentary films of director Christopher Guest are created with a mix of scripted and unscripted material and Blue in the Face is a 1995 comedy directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster created in part by the improvisations filmed during the production of their movie Smoke.

" The Funniest Joke in the World " is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, " Joke Warfare " and " Killer Joke ", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.

This plays on the long-established connotations of motels and illicit sexual activity, which has itself formed the basis for numerous other films, variously representing the thriller, comedy, teen film and sexploitation genres.

Playwrights throughout history have looked to Plautus for character, plot, humor, and other elements of comedy.

A few pubs have stage performances such as serious drama, stand-up comedy, musical bands, cabaret or striptease ; however juke boxes, karaoke and other forms of pre-recorded music have otherwise replaced the musical tradition of a piano or guitar and singing.

The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two characters, usually a man and a woman, meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite.

While the light romantic comedy of A Good Year was not greatly received, Crowe seemed pleased with the film, telling STV in an interview that he thought it would be enjoyed by fans of his other films.

Other films from this period in other genres incorporate elements of the screwball comedy.

The campaigns began with a series of adverts based on the 1986 French film Jean de Florette, directed by the British duo Anthea Benton and Vaughan Arnell, moving on to other genres including war movies, silent comedy and even surrealism.