More recently, " Twilight Zone " by 2 Unlimited was sung a cappella to the instrumentation on the comedy television series Tompkins Square.

( Howerd went on to star in Up Pompeii !, a 1969 British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii, as the slave Lurcio, whose character was based on Pseudolus.

Passing through: The theme song to the 1960s U. S. television comedy series Car 54, Where Are You?

Category: American comedy television series

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including Dad's Army and On the Buses.

* The television comedy Second City Television ( SCTV ) uses the concept of the crane shot as comedic material.

Though glamor and wealth certainly plays a role for only famous celebrities, most people in the sports and entertainments sphere, be it music, film, television, radio, modelling, comedy, literature etc.

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.

* Prominent media journalists, pundits on major nationally syndicated television shows, commentators on prominently scheduled television shows, nationally acclaimed media columnists and syndicated columnists, critically acclaimed and best-selling authors and writers, major national newscasters and news analysts, national television reporters and television anchors, national television game show hosts on prominently scheduled game shows, radio personalities on prominently scheduled radio shows, comedians on major headlining comedy shows, reality television personalities on most prominently scheduled reality television shows, daytime television show hosts, and late night television show hosts have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

Charles acquired cult status in 1988, in his television acting debut, as the Liverpudlian slob Dave Lister, in BBC2's new science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf.

Clive Anderson ( born 10 December 1952 ) is a British former barrister, best known for being a comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom.

He made his name as host of the improvised television comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway ?, which ran for 10 series.

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.

Frontline is an Australian comedy television series which satirised Australian television current affairs programs and reporting.

Category: Irish comedy television programmes

It was one of the most successful spin-off series in television history, as well as one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series.

Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.

A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

* Steve Austin, fictional character in Martin Caidin's novel Cyborg, which inspired the television series The Six Million Dollar Man

The villain ( Cyril Sneer ) and one of the heroes ( Cedric Sneer ) of the 1980s animated television series The Raccoons were aardvarks.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

Another example is in the television show Gladiators, in which two series were based on contests between teams representing Australia and England.

Bodyline, a fictionalised television miniseries based on the " Bodyline " Ashes series of 1932 – 33, screened in Australia in 1984, to significant public interest and critical acclaim.

She appears briefly in Disney's Hercules, but has a more dominant role in the television series.

Athena appears in the television series Stargate SG-1 when she kidnaps Vala Mal Doran to gain information on the Clava Thessara Infinitas ( The Key to Infinite Treasure ).

* " Abduction " ( The Outer Limits ), episode of the television series

* " Abduction ", episode of Death Note, a Japanese animation television series

* " Abducted ", episode of Invader Zim, an animated television series

* Ajax Duckman, a character in the animated television series Duckman

* Alfonzo Dominico Jones, a dog in the Australian television series SeaChange

* Alphonse Mephisto, fictional character in the animated television series South Park

* Alfred J. Kwak, a Dutch animated television series

* Atmospheres ( TV show ), a former television series on The Weather Channel

One such character was Steve Austin in the television series The Six Million Dollar Man.

* Ark II, a children's science fiction television series

In all the Stargate television series, characters are able to communicate instantaneously over long distances by transferring their consciousness into another person or being anywhere in the universe using " Ancient communication stones ".

This inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted.

* Atlantis Cable News ( ACN ), a fictional news channel on the American HBO drama television series The Newsroom

In December 2009, a new television competition series called The Sing-Off aired on NBC.

* In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the Enterprise-D's Shuttlecraft is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes.

All television programme episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick.

Richardson is known for her role as a comedic Queen Elizabeth I, aka Queenie, in the British television comedy Blackadder II.

He is known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and for hosting Channel 4 programmes such as Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History.

Notable acting roles include the lead in the film Wilde, Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, the titular character in the the television series Kingdom, a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the crime series Bones and as Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller V for Vendetta.

The first episode of the BBC television comedy Blackadder in part parodies the Olivier film, visually ( as in the crown motif ), Peter Cook's performance as a benevolent Richard, and by mangling Shakespearean text (" Now is the summer of our sweet content made o ' ercast winter by these Tudor clouds ...")

Among her non-puppeteering television appearances, Gold was featured as Mrs Tyler, a Goodwife, in the first series episode " Witchsmeller Pursuivant " of Blackadder ( 1983 ).

Melchett is a family line of fictional characters appearing in the British television sitcom series Blackadder, played by Stephen Fry.

Actors, Patsy Byrne ( Nursie in the sitcom Blackadder II ), Mark Rylance and Alex Arnold from Skins were born in the area, with other personalities from the town including satirist John Wells from That Was The Week That Was and Bob Holness, a television presenter.

* In various film and television versions of the novel, The Queen has been played by May Robson, Ronald Lang, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eve Arden, Jayne Meadows, and, In the 1999 Alice in Wonderland television movie, Miranda Richardson, whose portrayal is strongly reminiscent of her role as the spoiled Queenie in Blackadder.

He made his television debut in the late 1980s in various comedy shows including Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ), and has presented a television documentary about the political background to the English Civil War as well as an edition of Top of the Pops in 1996.

The book Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty includes an appendix that expands on the fictional chronology of the television show.

* Bob ( Blackadder character ), two characters in the television comedy Blackadder

Notable television roles include three appearances as " Bob " in the Blackadder series and the part of Patricia Farnham, the long-suffering partner of Max Farnham ( Steven Pinder ), in Brookside.

Screenshot of the television series The Black Adder to show the first incarnation of the Blackadder dynasty: Prince Edmund ( Played by Rowan Atkinson.

Blackadder is a British television show starring Rowan Atkinson.

His last television role was in the pilot episode for the comedy series Blackadder in 1982.