One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and more recently What's Up, Doc?

One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film, encouraged by the success of When Harry Met Sally ... in 1989.

One of his early comedy writing projects was Black Cinderella Two Goes East with Rory McGrath for BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

One subgenre of screwball is known as the comedy of remarriage, in which characters divorce and then remarry one another ( The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story ).

The 1985 comedy The Man with One Red Shoe features an eccentric man wearing one normal business shoe and one red shoe that becomes central to the plot.

One of the few critics to praise the film was Roger Ebert, and in fact, the film's reputation has grown in recent years, with many noting its uncompromising vision as well as its anticipation of the violent black comedy which became famous in the works of such directors as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.

One of the motivations for the use of real-world products, quite unrelated to commercial considerations, is the comedy value of funny-sounding phrases and words.

One of these films was My Name is Nobody ( 1973 ) by Tonino Valerii ( though true participation of Leone in shooting is disputed ), a comedy western film that poked fun at the spaghetti western genre.

* Chris Pepper, character played by Peter Lawford in 1969 comedy One More Time ( film ) directed by Jerry Lewis

* One version of Minuit was played by Groucho Marx in the 1957 comedy film The Story of Mankind.

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite ( Claudette Colbert ) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ( Clark Gable ).

In 1973 he played junior employee Granville in the first programme of the comedy anthology Seven of One, called Open All Hours ( BBC ) and starring Barker as the miserly proprietor of a corner shop.

* One of two captains in the comedy science-fiction novel Colony.

Colbert was reluctant to appear as the " runaway heiress ", Ellie Andrews, in the Frank Capra romantic comedy, It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), opposite Clark Gable and released by Columbia Pictures.

* A Trick to Catch the Old One, a city comedy ( 1605 )

CBC Radio One and Première Chaîne focus on news and information programming, but they air some music programs, variety shows, comedy, and sports programming.

Respected film critic Leslie Halliwell said " probably the best Fields vehicle there is " and W. C. Fields Biographer Robert Lewis Taylor called it " One of the great classics of American comedy ".

In the musical comedy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the First Lady sings the “ Duet for One ,” in which she transforms from Mrs. Grant into Lucy Webb Hayes.

In 1998, Whitfield played the housekeeper in the London-set episode of Friends " The One with Ross's Wedding, Part Two " and voiced a character in an episode of the animated comedy series Rex the Runt.

Whether with music, as in MGM's opulent The Merry Widow ( 1934 ) and Paramount's One Hour with You ( 1932 ), or without, as in Design for Living ( 1933 ), Lubitsch continued to specialize in comedy.

One modern historian feels that it was Ealdred who was behind the compilation of the D version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and gives a date in the 1050s as its composition.

One modern historian has seen him as essentially a marrano.

One historian, Charlotte Behr, thinks that the Historia's account of the arrival of the Germanic invaders in Kent should not be considered to relate what actually happened, but rather relates myths that were current in Kent during Bede's time.

One historian explained:

One of Ganshof's contemporaries, the French historian Marc Bloch, was arguably the most influential 20th century medieval historian.

The historian Ronald Hutton has suggested that it instead came from the Arabic term Dhul-Qarnayn which meant " Horned One ".

One chronicler had not seen " a siege so hard pressed or so strongly resisted ", whilst historian Reginald Brown describes it as " one of the greatest operations in England up to that time ".

The later Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm remarked that " One cannot say Marx died a failure " because, although he had not achieved a large following of disciples in Britain, his writings had already begun to make an impact on the leftist movements in Germany and Russia.

One historian may write a new history of the Renaissance in Europe ; another may claim that there was no such thing as the European Renaissance.

One historian claims Robin Hood was a pseudonym by which the ancient Lords of Wellow, Nottinghamshire, were once known.

One modern naval historian wrote: " Roosevelt ’ s study of the War of 1812 influenced all subsequent scholarship on the naval aspects of the War of 1812 and continues to be reprinted.

One of the first people to do so was the English historian Henry Bourne, who, writing in the 1720s, described the practice occurring in the Tyne valley.

One of the ship's officers, a historian, is lost and presumed dead while transporting a rescued senator and his secretary to a small island for safety in advance of the coming battle ; according to history, the pair and his chief of staff were believed to have been killed by the Japanese.

One of the Persian envoys, Ghiyasu'd-Din Naqqah, keeps a diary of his travels throughout China, some of the contents of which are preserved in court documents thanks to the court historian Hafiz Abru.

One historian said that never before was a candidate under such a great obligation to men of wealth.

One historian wrote that Fulk's supporters " went in terror of their lives " in the palace.

One of his sons, Silas Molema, became a Doctor and historian of the Barolong.

One historian has described their relationship as one of the " great romances of the Middle Ages ".

One fraction led by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz were avid followers of the teachings of the American historian Alfred Thayer Mahan and believed in building a “ balanced fleet ” centred around the battleship that would, if war came, seek out and win a decisive battle of annihilation ( Entscheidungsschlacht ) against the Royal Navy.

One United States Air Force historian noted that Market was the only large airborne operation of the Second World War in which the USAAF " had no training program, no rehearsals, almost no exercises, and a ... low level of tactical training.

One of the modern scholars who does accept this date is the historian Geoffrey Ashe, who suggests that Mons Badonicus occurred in 516, but was just one of a string of British victories.

The first-century historian Flavius Josephus was so impressed by the area that he wrote, " One may call this place the ambition of Nature.

In 2009, historian Benny Morris ' stated in his retrospective book One States, Two States that about one third of the Palestinian deaths up to 2004 had been civilians.

One of the earliest recordings of a play inspired by the myth of Myrrha is in the Antiquities of the Jews, written in 93 A. D. by the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.