In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

There are a number of performing arts groups at Columbia dedicated to producing student theater, including the Columbia Players, King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe ( KCST ), Columbia Musical Theater Society ( CMTS ), NOMADS ( New and Original Material Authored and Directed by Students ), LateNite Theatre, Columbia University Performing Arts League ( CUPAL ), Black Theatre Ensemble ( BTE ), sketch comedy group Chowdah, and improvisational troupes Alfred and Fruit Paunch.

The comedy group Buckner & Garcia released a novelty concept album, Pac-Man Fever, that went gold and produced a hit single of the same name ; all of the songs on the album pertained to popular video games of the time.

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.

A more analogous case is that of the screwball comedy, widely accepted by film historians as constituting a " genre ": the screwball is defined not by a fundamental attribute, but by a general disposition and a group of elements, some — but rarely and perhaps never all — of which are found in each of the genre's films.

Graham Arthur Chapman ( 8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989 ) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python.

Galaxy Quest is a 1999 science-fiction comedy parody about a troupe of human actors who defend a group of aliens against an alien warlord.

From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group.

From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group that included David Lander, Richard Beebe and Michael McKean.

There he performed in the now well-established comedy group, the Oxford Revue.

In 1978, the Monty Python comedy group invited Moon to join them in Tunisia for their filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian, where he was to play some of the smaller roles.

Michael Edward Palin, CBE, FRGS ( pronounced ; born 5 May 1943 ) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.

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.

He played the guitar with a jazz and comedy group called The Bill Hall Trio in concert parties for the troops.

At the Cotton Club, Ellington's group performed all the music for the revues, which mixed comedy, dance numbers, vaudeville, burlesque, music, and illegal alcohol.

The stone is referred to in the comedy play by Derek Webb called Bringing Back the Bluestones in which a Welsh group decide to emulate the return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland by demanding the return of the Bluestones from Stonehenge to Pembrokeshire.

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.

A British sitcom is a situation comedy programme produced for British television and tends, as it does in most other countries, to be based on a family, workplace or other institution, where the same group of contrasting characters is brought together in each episode.

Idle was a member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python, a member of the Rutles on Saturday Night Live, and the author of the Broadway musical Spamalot.

It is unknown exactly when he wrote it, but the play, the comedy Mélite, surfaced when Corneille brought it to a group of traveling actors in 1629.

Unlike the 1970s series, in which the Electric Company refers to a troupe of actors in comedy sketches, the new series refers to a group of super heroes who battle villains in the name of literacy.

In 1989, Smith co-founded a Christchurch theatresports group, Scared Scriptless, performing live comedy.

* " El beso de Ariadna " (" Ariadne's Kiss ") is the name of a musical comedy act by Argentinian comedy-musical group Les Luthiers.

Tropic Thunder ( 2008 ) is a comedy film revolving around a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film ( itself also named " Tropic Thunder ") when their fed-up writer and director decide to abandon them in the middle of the jungle, forcing them to fight their way out.

While previous critics such as A. W. Gomme believed that the slave was “ truly comic character, the devisor of ingenious schemes, the controller of events, the commanding officer of his young master and friends, is a creation of Latin comedy ,” and that Greek dramatists such as Menander did not use slaves in such a way that Plautus later did, Harsh refutes these beliefs by giving concrete examples of instances where a clever slave appeared in Greek comedy.

Inspired by a real-life experience told to him by friends, it is a black comedy about a woman whose life is disrupted by a subtly menacing plumber.

David Jason appeared in the BBC comedy series Hugh and I, which starred Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott as two friends who lived together in south London.

There he met actor Glenn Melvyn ; the two became firm friends and Barker stated Melvyn taught him everything he " ever learned about comedy.

The show starred David Frost, John Cleese and Barker's future comedy partner Ronnie Corbett, whom he had met in 1963 when Corbett was the barman at the Buckstone Club near the Haymarket Theatre, and the two became friends.

Most of the situations involve Newhart's character playing straight man to his wife, colleagues, friends, and patients, an extension of Newhart's stand-up comedy routines, where Newhart would play one side of a telephone conversation, the other side of which is not heard.

Tahj Dayton Mowry ( born May 17, 1986 ), is an American actor, dancer, and singer, mostly known for his role as Teddy on the ABC series, Full House, one of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's friends, T. J. Henderson on the The WB sitcom, Smart Guy, and as Wade on the animated comedy, Kim Possible on the Disney Channel.

He was one of the major characters on the children's television series The Electric Company for its first two seasons, and created the educational cartoon comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in the city.

They made the characters friends rather than enemies, creating comedy as their friendship was tried to its limit.

Schwimmer received his breakthrough role in 1994 when he was cast as Ross Geller in NBC's situation comedy Friends, a series that revolved around a group of friends who live together in Manhattan, New York City.

On a dare from one of his friends, he participated in a comedy night at a comedy club in Detroit.

In 2010 McCall was subjected to Channel 4's version of the popular American practice of a ' comedy roast ', in which a famous personality has to endure mocking by a host of celebrity friends in silence, only being allowed to deliver a rebuttal at the end.

He was assistant to the director of a small theatre ( now the Borgarleikhúsið ) for a while, and produced, with two friends ( Þórarinn Eldjárn and Hrafn Gunnlaugsson ), a popular radio comedy show for two years ; he was for a while a political commentator at the newspaper Morgunblaðið, and the director of publication of Almenna bókafélagið, a conservative publishing house.

Bobby is a school-aged boy who enjoys comedy, music, dance and socializing with his friends, Joseph Gribble and Connie Souphanousinphone.

Comedian George Carlin grew up on 121st, and heavily drew upon his New York City roots on a number of his comedy albums, perhaps most memorably on Occupation: Foole, where he and his friends called their neighborhood " White Harlem ... because it sounded tough.

Cleese's " few friends " turned out to be his colleagues in Monty Python, pals in the earlier British comedic ensemble Beyond The Fringe, his Footlights / I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again peers in the contemporary British comedic ensemble The Goodies, and other members of the British comedy community from the 1960s and 1970s ( primarily those described as " Oxbridge " comedians ).

He became friends with leading members of the British comedy scene including Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, Spike Milligan, Willie Rushton and fellow Australian expatriate comedian-actors John Bluthal and Dick Bentley.

Humphries performed at Cook's comedy venue The Establishment, where he became friends with and was photographed by leading photographer Lewis Morley, whose studio was located above the club.

When not working, Jack often hangs with his eccentric friends, Leo Trench, an agoraphobic computer hacker who, like one of the characters in McKellar's earlier comedy series, Twitch City, is unable to leave his apartment but nonetheless leads a complex and bizarre life, and Bobby Lee, an Asian kid who works in the family store by day, and is a club disc-jockey and masked hero by night.

In 1985, whilst performing in a University of Melbourne revue of Too Cool for Sandals, with Michael Veitch and Tom Gleisner, Szubanski was talent-spotted by producers from the ABC network, who convinced her to join up with some other university friends in creating the television sketch comedy show, The D-Generation.

A live-action situation comedy series about life in a train station called Shining Time and featuring a cast of characters such as Stacy Jones the Manager ( Didi Conn ), Schemer the Arcade Owner ( Brian O ' Connor ), the Jukebox Band and the magical Mr. Conductor ( Ringo Starr, George Carlin ) who tells the stories about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends.

In the summer of 2005, FX debuted two new comedy series, Starved, about the daily lives of four friends with eating disorders who live in New York, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, about four people who own a bar in the titular city and somehow always wind up having comic misadventures, usually very politically incorrect.