In the UK, series 1 and 2 were shown by the Paramount Comedy Channel.

At the 1996 British Comedy Awards the show won Top Channel 4 Sitcom Award, McLynn took the Top TV Comedy Actress award.

In August 2012 Channel 4 viewers voted the series as the No 1 in C4's 30 Greatest Comedy Shows.

However, a number of them ( of varying quality ) were shown the following year on the Paramount Comedy Channel in the UK ; it has not been disclosed how these scenes were saved or where they came from ; possibly the source was the Criterion laserdisc.

In December 2011, Viz produced three animated shorts with Baby Cow for Channel 4's Comedy Blaps, voiced by Steve Coogan, Sarah Millican, Simon Greenall and Gavin Webster.

In December 2011, Viz produced three animated shorts for Channel 4's Comedy Blaps with Baby Cow, voiced by Steve Coogan, Sarah Millican, Simon Greenall and Gavin Webster.

Nevertheless, the sketch is considered the show's most famous one and was voted as the show's best in a TV special, while also placing fifth on Channel 4's 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches.

Sarducci appeared on San Francisco Channel 20's Chicken Little Comedy Show, and comic David Steinberg was watching.

In April 2010, Tarrant become one of the first three celebrities to be subjected to the British version of the American institution of a comedy roast, on Channel 4's A Comedy Roast.

He is best known for political stunts on his show, The Mark Thomas Comedy Product on Channel 4.

His political comedy show, The Mark Thomas Comedy Product ( later renamed as simply The Mark Thomas Product, to reflect its increasing political agenda ) on Channel 4 earned him criticism from politicians but was seen by critics as a crucial investigative tool.

* The Mark Thomas Comedy Product ( later renamed The Mark Thomas Product ), Channel 4 which ran for six series totalling 45 episodes ( 1996 – 2002 )

Over the next few years, Bailey made guest appearances on shows such as Have I Got News For You, World Cup Comedy, Room 101, Des O ' Connor Tonight, Coast to Coast and three episodes of off-beat Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, in which he played comic-shop manager Bilbo Bagshot.

* 30 March: took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London.

His mainstream-TV debut came in September 1998 as part of Channel 4's " Comedy Lab " series of pilots.

He also makes short videos that are on the BBC Comedy Channel called " Country Man ", featuring himself doing a posh accent in the countryside.

After its original run it has been shown repeatedly on PBS and satellite channels such as Telemundo in the United States, CBC in Canada, TV1 in Australia, TVB in Hong Kong, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and ITV3, Cartoon Network on 11 June 2012, in the UK, Disney Channel Asia in Southeast Asia, TV3 in Malaysia, MediaCorp Channel 5 in Singapore, ABS-CBN in the Philippines and RCTI in Indonesia.

Fast Forward was commissioned by Seven Network in late 1988 to take advantage of the ratings success of the Australian sketch comedy demonstrated by the high rating Australian sketch comedy show The Comedy Company, broadcast on Channel 10 in 1988.

Some of the programmes Channel Television took responsibility for included The X Factor, Midsomer Murders and the British Comedy Awards.

On May 18, 2008, the Sunday Times newspaper reported Channel Television's role in compliance for the ITV network as a loophole which enabled ITV to lessen a possible fine for breaching Ofcom regulations during the 2005 British Comedy Awards.

In Australia, The Comedy Channel began airing the program in September 2009 ; however, it was replaced in March 2010 by the return of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

* Australia's Foxtel cable network aired Sports Night on The Comedy Channel in 2005.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

He has produced numerous movies, television shows, and specials through his production company, Apostle ; these include Comedy Central's Shorties Watchin ' Shorties, the stand-up special Denis Leary's Merry F #$% in ' Christmas, and the movie Blow.

Lewis has won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

" He also praises Oxford and Richard Edwardes as playwrights, saying that they " deserve the hyest price " for the works of " Comedy and Enterlude " that he has seen.

M. Leigh has devoted an extensive chapter about Plautus and Hannibal in his recent book, Comedy and the Rise of Rome.

Comedy of manners, sometimes also called satire of manners, criticizes mode of life of common people ; political satire aims at behavior, manners of politicians, and vices of political systems ; Historically, Comedy of manners, which first appeared in British theater in 1620, has uncritically accepted the social code of the upper classes.

Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably the Divine Comedy of Dante, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory.

Part II of Dante's Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, has almost certainly been the best known source since the Renaissance.

He has reached over 45 % Italian households with his lectures on the Divine Comedy.

Jason has won four British Academy Television Awards ( BAFTAs ), ( 1988, 1991, 1997, 2003 ), four British Comedy Awards ( 1990, 1992, 1997, 2001 ) and six National Television Awards ( 1997, 2001, 2002 twice, 2003, 2011 ).

In Slate, Sam Anderson wrote in the article " And Now for Something Completely Deficient " that though Idle " has earned a spot in Comedy Heaven for his Python days ... his jokey ' exposure ' of his own exploitation ( he has called tours ' Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python ' and ' The Greedy Bastard Tour ') is more irritating than funny.

The Comedy Direction winner, Two Arabian Knights, was believed lost for many years but was preserved in the Howard Hughes archive and has been broadcast ( along with another first-year nominee produced by Hughes and believed lost, The Racket ) on Turner Classic Movies.

In the Inferno, the first part of Italian poet Dante's Divine Comedy epic, Geryon has become the Monster of Fraud, a winged beast with the face of an honest man, the paws of a lion, the body of a wyvern, and a poisonous sting at the tip of his tail.

In art, Myrrha's seduction of her father has been illustrated by German engraver Virgil Solis, her tree-metamorphosis by French engraver Bernard Picart and Italian painter Marcantonio Franceschini, while French engraver Gustave Doré chose to depict Myrrha in Hell as a part of his series of engravings for Dante's Divine Comedy.

This name has since become an alternative name for the underworld or a part of the underworld, such as the Dis of The Divine Comedy.

Wheaton has performed improvisational and sketch comedy at the ACME Comedy Theater in Hollywood.

Reruns continued in syndication for several years before disappearing in most markets, but the show has aired on A & E Network, Nick at Nite and TBS network in the United States, and TVtropolis and the Comedy Network in Canada.

She is an advocate for a number of charities and animal welfare groups such as Compassion in World Farming and Vegetarians ' International Voice for Animals She has won three BAFTA awards and a British Comedy Award.

Comedy writer and playwright Larry Gelbart has said that comedian Lenny Bruce ’ s attempt to be released from military service in World War II by dressing in a WAVES uniform was the original inspiration for the character of Klinger on the sitcom.

Today, the city has a lively cultural scene, with annual events including the Kilkenny Arts Week Festival in the last two weeks of August, and the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival at the beginning of June.