* The German erotic / vampire / comedy comic series Sandra Bodyshelly ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Harm Bengen incorporates several plot elements from vampiric fiction.

He appears on several Leon Russell recordings, credited as playing drums under the names " Teddy Jack Eddy " and " Sprunk ", a character he created when he was a cast member of a local television comedy show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting on station KTUL ( which starred fellow Tulsan Gailard Sartain as " Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi ").

Lewis followed The Bellboy by directing several more films which he co-wrote with Richmond, including The Ladies Man ( 1961 ), The Errand Boy ( 1961 ), The Patsy ( 1964 ) and the well-known comedy, The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ).

It has remained popular since then, receiving positive reviews and being named " greatest comedy film of all time " by several magazines and television networks.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

( 3 ) Francis Meres ' 1598 Palladis Tamia mentions both Oxford and Shakespeare as among several playwrights who are " the best for comedy amongst us ".

Milligan made several forays into television as a writer-performer, in addition to his many guest appearances on interview, variety and sketch comedy series from the 1950s to the 2000s.

The play " exploits several archetypal forms and situations, all of which lend themselves to both comedy and pathos.

Hurry Sundown signaled a rather precipitous decline in Preminger's reputation, as it was followed by several other films which were critical and commercial failures, including Skidoo ( 1968 ), a failed attempt at a hip sixties comedy ( and Groucho Marx's last film ), and Rosebud ( 1975 ), a terrorism thriller which was also widely ridiculed.

Prinze worked at several comedy clubs in New York City, including The Improv and Catch a Rising Star where he introduced himself to audiences as a " Hungarican " ( part Hungarian, part Puerto Rican ).

During the second half of the 1990s she starred in several films such as the ensemble romantic film ' Til There Was You ( 1997 ) with Dylan McDermott and Sarah Jessica Parker, The Thin Pink Line ( 1998 ), the animated feature The Iron Giant ( 1999 ), and the critically acclaimed comedy Office Space ( 1999 ).

Today it has a significant cult following as an unintentional comedy, with several scenes on YouTube boasting Cage brutalizing various women throughout and terrorizing children, a fan-made comedy trailer of the film, and more.

While several protests had taken place before serious violence occurred, the events headed by the Yippies were not without comedy.

Hanks is one of several celebrities who frequently participates in planned comedy bits on Conan O ' Brien's talk shows, including Late Night, The Tonight Show, and Conan while a guest.

She managed to land unbilled small parts in several feature films and comedy shorts for two years.

In terms of his comedy writing, Took was the writing partner of Marty Feldman and wrote for several television shows in the 1950s and 1960s, including The Army Game and its spin-off Bootsie and Snudge.

He starred in several British television comedy shows, including At Last the 1948 Show and Marty, the latter of which won two BAFTA awards.

While his best-known roles have spanned three decades from 1981, he started his television career in 1964 as Bert Bradshaw in the soap-opera Crossroads, and after several appearances as Captain Fantastic on the children's television show Do Not Adjust Your Set, by the 1970s Jason was already an established screen comedy actor with recurring appearances in television series.

Jason has also appeared on several radio comedy shows, and had numerous voice acting parts, notably in the long running animated series Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and The Wind in the Willows of the 1980s and early 1990s.

He appeared in At Last the 1948 Show with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, and was co-writer ( with Graham Chapman ) of several episodes of the Doctor in the House television comedy series.

The Keystone Cops serve as supporting players for Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Chaplin in the first full-length Sennett comedy feature, Tillie's Punctured Romance ( 1914 ), as well as in Mabel's New Hero ( 1913 ) with Normand and Arbuckle, Making a Living ( 1914 ) with Chaplin in his first screen appearance ( pre-Tramp ), In the Clutches of the Gang ( 1914 ) with Normand, Arbuckle, and Al St. John, and Wished on Mabel ( 1915 ) with Arbuckle and Normand, among others.

Usually, his roles were cameo appearances as an Indian, although in the 1932 comedy, Always Kickin, Thorpe was prominently cast in a speaking part as himself, a kicking coach teaching young football players to drop-kick.

Author Douglas Adams, while travelling with British comedy producer John Lloyd, suggested they play a game he had learned at school in which players were challenged to make up plausible word definitions for place names taken from road maps.

After recording of the third series of Father Ted had been completed, Morgan intended to work on a new comedy series, based around two retired football players living in a small flat together.

By this time Roach no longer had a resident company of comedy stars, and cast his films with familiar featured players ( William Tracy and Joe Sawyer, Johnny Downs, Jean Porter, Frank Faylen, William Bendix, George E. Stone, etc.

The actor's first film after Metro released him and several other players from their contracts was the comedy It Should Happen to You, where he starred alongside Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon.

The threesome developed " The Chip Shop Show ", a series of spoof musicals popular on the newly burgeoning London alternative comedy circuit, making many appearances at The Comedy Store ( London ) alongside Ronnie Golden, John Hegley and others, including several future Red Dwarf players.

When the Italian players at the Hôtel de Bourgogne were banished from Paris in 1697 for performing their comedy La fausse prude (" The False Prude "), which satirized the King's mistress, Madame de Maintenon, the fair theatres were quick to adopt much of the Italians ' repertory, which included parodies of operas and tragedies.

" Ball's reduced capacity for physical comedy gave the other members of the cast, such as Lucie Arnaz and featured players Mary Jane Croft and Vanda Barra a chance to shine.

These supporting players were mostly recognisable comedy actors at the time but not long term regular members of the Carry On team.

Because Mie and Kei were commuting back and forth to Japan to appear in sold-out concerts, their time on the set was spent memorizing lines and routines, so the brunt of the comedy skits were carried by Altman and ensemble players Jim Varney, Cheri Steinkellner and Anna Mathias.

The Aristocrats features performances and commentary from some of Hollywood's biggest power players in comedy, TV and film.

Beck was one of the players in National Lampoon's first comedy album Radio Dinner in 1972.

· The stadium was used in July 2010 to film the BBC comedy drama Candy Cabs, when it was made to look like a football stadium for the wedding of one of the football team's players.

Unlike Noh drama or nihonbuyō dance, who earn their living primarily via teaching and support from underlings in the iemoto system, but similar to rakugo comedy, professional kyōgen players earn their living from performing ( possibly supplemented by side jobs ), and maintain an active touring schedule.

" The players entertained the audience using comic skits, parodies of popular plays and musicals, and general buffoonery and slapstick comedy, all with heavy utilization of racial stereotyping and racist themes.

She switched to non-musical comedy and drama around 1920 and was one of the players in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and 30s.

Starr is a keen supporter of Everton and at the height of his television celebrity he appeared on ITVs coverage of the build up to the 1984 F A cup final, in which Everton defeated Elton John's Watford 2-0, when he appeared on the lawn outside the hotel where the Everton team were staying on the morning of the game and gave an impromptu comedy performance to the players who watched from the windows of their rooms.

Recurring comedy players Joff Ellen and Rosie Sturgess became regulars.

The name, originally that of a well known group of British comedy entertainers popular in the late 1930s, was used because of the often eccentric and boisterously macho behaviour of Wimbledon's players, who were in the habit of playing frequent and outrageous practical jokes on each other and on the club's manager, Dave Bassett.

The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.

The Sandlot is a 1993 American sports comedy film directed by David M. Evans about a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962.

The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine is a Saturday morning variety show featuring players from the basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters singing, dancing, and performing comedy sketches.