Berman, whose fame has rested in recent years on his skills as a night club monologist, proved himself very much at home in musical comedy.

* Crackerjack – a 2002 Australian comedy film about a wisecracking layabout who joins a lawn bowls club in order to be allowed to use a free parking spot but is forced to play bowls with the much older crowd when the club enters financial difficulty.

Leary began working as a comedian in the Boston comedy scene of the 1980s at the underground club Play It Again Sam's.

While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola was elected president of The Green Wig ( the university's drama group ), the Kaleidoscopians, ( its musical comedy club ) and he then merged the two into The Spectrum Players.

** Rocko Schamoni, German entertainer, author, musician, club proprietor and member of the comedy ensemble Studio Braun

* Ladies Night is a New Zealand stage comedy about unemployed male workers who put on a strip show at a club as a way to raise some money.

" Some came from their sketch series on a local radio station in Chicago and had to be lengthened from the " two-minute bits " that they were originally, while several others were stage sketches performed in a comedy club in Santa Monica.

A monthly comedy club based at the Con Club was created in 2010.

The first annual Miss Fag Hag Pageant took place in New York City on May 17, 2009 at Comix comedy club with judges Caroline Rhea, Michael Musto, Hedda Lettuce and Katina Corrao.

They came to prominence in the early 1980s for performing at the London comedy club The Comic Strip, which also gave its name to the television series and the informal grouping of so-called alternative comedians.

His sharp, and albeit often rude, quick wit has led him in some storylines to working part-time as a stand-up ( often insult ) comedian at a Riverdale comedy club, and hopes to perform professionally someday.

He also operates and is the host of his own comedy club, The Downtown Comedy Club in downtown Los Angeles.

The 1960s had also seen the satire boom, including the creation of the club, The Establishment, which, amongst other things, gave British audiences their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from Lenny Bruce.

In 1979, the first American-style stand-up comedy club, the Comedy Store, London was opened in London by Peter Rosengard, where many alternative comedy stars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson began their careers.

Continuing that tradition, most modern stand-up comedians use television or motion pictures to reach a level of success and recognition unattainable in the comedy club circuit alone.

A comedy club is a venue, typically a nightclub, bar, or restaurant where people watch or listen to performances, including stand-up comedians, improvisational comedians, impersonators, magicians, ventriloquists and other comedy acts.

The term " comedy club " usually refers to venues that feature standup comedy, as distinguished from improv theaters that host improv or sketch comedy and variety clubs that may also host musical acts.

After a small role in the Clint Eastwood comedy film Any Which Way You Can, comedian Lily Tomlin saw Brown at a comedy club and gave her first big break, a part in her 1981 film The Incredible Shrinking Woman.

The club featured many well known musical groups, folksingers and comedy acts between the opening in February 1964 until closing in October 1969.

( 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.

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?

His feature film debut was in producer Samuel Goldwyn's Technicolor 1944 comedy Up in Arms, a remake of Goldwyn's Eddie Cantor comedy Whoopee!

Originally, New World reportedly planned to re-write the dialogue in order to turn the film into a tongue-in-cheek comedy ( à la What's Up, Tiger Lily?

In 1938 Hawks made the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby for RKO Pictures.

Following the success of the National Lampoon – backed Animal House, Mad lent its name in 1980 to a similarly risque comedy film, Up the Academy.

She has since built a successful career, appearing in films from a wide range of genres, including the comedy Waking Up in Reno ( 2002 ), the thriller Gothika ( 2003 ), the Christmas movie Noel ( 2004 ), and the action adventure Sahara ( 2005 ).

A number of other films have been made on or about Shetland including A Crofter's Life in Shetland ( 1932 ) A Shetland Lyric ( 1934 ), Devil's Gate ( 2003 ) and It's Nice Up North ( 2006 ), a comedy documentary by Graham Fellows.

* Up !, a musical comedy also known as Via Galactica

Bogdanovich followed up The Last Picture Show with the popular comedy What's Up, Doc?

( 1972 ), starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O ' Neal, a screwball comedy indebted to Hawks's Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) and His Girl Friday ( 1940 ).

*" Cut Up " comedy skit featuring William Haines ripping up Jack Benny's suit

Sponsored by the Caravan Trade & Industries Association " Caravan Holiday " was completed by early 1972 and released in cinemas across Australia as a supporting feature to Peter Bogdanovich's hugely popular US comedy picture What's Up, Doc?

The subculture surfaced on Broadway as musical comedy in The Nervous Set ( 1959 ) by Neurotica editor Jay Landesman and Theodore J. Flicker with music by Tommy Wolf and lyrics by Fran Landesman ; this was the source of two jazz standards, " Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most " and " The Ballad of the Sad Young Men " ( recorded by Gil Evans, Anita O ' Day, Roberta Flack, Petula Clark, Rod McKuen, Shirley Bassey and others ).

Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films starring Grant and Hepburn, the others being Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), the last three of which belong to a sub-genre of screwball comedy called the comedy of remarriage described by the philosopher Stanley Cavell as Hollywood's crowning achievement.

* Daisy ( Keeping Up Appearances ), from the British comedy television series, portrayed by actress Judy Cornwell

He also played Mr. Hertz in the action film Shoot ' Em Up and Santa Claus in the comedy Fred Claus.

Irene Joan Marion Sims ( 9 May 1930 – 27 June 2001 ), best known as Joan Sims, was an English actress, best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, and latterly for playing both Madge Hardcastle in As Time Goes By, and Mrs Wembley the cook with a liking for sherry in the TV comedy series On the Up.

She played Mrs Wembley in the BBC comedy series On the Up, which starred Dennis Waterman and ran from 1990 to 1992.

Gielgud quickly rose to the status of being one of the top directors for Binkie Beaumont's H. M. Tennent, Ltd. production company in London's West End Theatre and later on Broadway, his productions including Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1945 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ), his own adaptation of The Cherry Orchard ( 1954 ), The Potting Shed ( 1958 ), Five Finger Exercise ( 1959 ), Peter Ustinov's comedy Half Way Up a Tree ( 1967 ), and Private Lives ( 1972 ).

He subsequently appeared opposite Woody Allen and Sharon Stone in Alfonso Arau's straight-to-cable comedy Picking Up the Pieces ( 2000 ).