She did remark, however, that while starring in the show she refrained from eating sweets, retaining her slimness with intense workouts and running.

* Frank TV, show starring Frank Caliendo

In 2001, Swedish commercial television channel TV4 produced a version of the show, entitled " En fot i graven ", starring Gösta Ekman as Victor Meldrew and Lena Söderblom as his wife.

The show returned on ABC in the form of a less frequent series of TV-movies, still starring Falk, from 1989 until 2003.

For his final show, he made a black and white short film, Boy and Bicycle, starring both his younger brother and his father ( the film was later released on the ' Extras ' section of The Duellists DVD ).

Simmons also turned to television, starring in Run's House, a reality show that followed his life as a father and husband.

Sonny continued to work with Cher through the early and mid-1970s starring in a popular television variety show, The Sonny and Cher Show, which ran on CBS from 1971 to 1974.

This gave rise to the term Seinfeld curse: the failure of a sitcom starring one of the three, despite the conventional wisdom that each person's Seinfeld popularity should almost guarantee a strong, built-in audience for the actor's new show.

* Oh My Meat Pie, an episode in the 12th season of Good Eats, an educational cooking show on The Food Network starring Alton Brown.

During that year, legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini made his first of ten TV appearances conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra, and Texaco Star Theater, starring comedian Milton Berle, became television's first gigantic hit show.

At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.

Other early UPN programs included the action show Nowhere Man starring Bruce Greenwood, the action show Marker starring Richard Grieco, the comic western Legend starring Richard Dean Anderson ( a veteran of Paramount's MacGyver ), the science-fiction themed action show, The Sentinel, and Moesha, a sitcom starring Brandy Norwood.

Other early UPN programs included the action show Nowhere Man starring Bruce Greenwood, the action show Marker starring Richard Grieco, The Watcher featuring Sir Mix-a-Lot as an omniscient narrator, the comic western Legend starring Richard Dean Anderson, the science-fiction themed action show, The Sentinel, and Moesha, a sitcom starring Brandy Norwood.

* 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host

One of Lerner's cousins was the radio comedian / television game show panelist Henry Morgan.

The young comedian headed the show and impressed American reviewers, being described as " one of the best pantomime artists ever seen here.

David Letterman, late night talk show host and comedian.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

In 2003, on his television show John Safran Vs God, Australian comedian John Safran tricked Sheikh Omar Bakri into placing a fatwā on Safran's colleague Rove McManus by showing him falsified evidence seeming to indicate that McManus had been making fun of Islam.

Marx worked as a radio comedian and show host.

In the 1980s comedian Andy Cameron presented the Hogmanay show on BBC Scotland while Peter Morrison presented a show called " A Highland Hogmanay " on STV / Grampian.

For many years, a staple of New Year's Eve television programming in Scotland was the comedy sketch show Scotch and Wry featuring the comedian Rikki Fulton, which invariably included a hilarious monologue from him as the preternaturally-gloomy Reverend I. M.

* Bill Maher talk show host, comedian.

* 1944 – Bill Rafferty, American comedian and game show host

* 1961 – Willie Revillame, Filipino game show host and comedian

* 1957 – Ken Ober, American comedian, actor, and game show host ( d. 2009 )

Meanwhile, comedian Bob Hope learns of the existence of this " Funniest Joke in the World ", but not about its deadly effects, and decides that he wants to recite it on his next television show.

Abdul's behavior as depicted on the show was described as " erratic " by comedian Rosie O ' Donnell and decried by numerous fans and critics.

* 29-Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer.

Parodies of Popeil's infomercials were done on the comedy show Saturday Night Live by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy and the " Veg-O-Matic " may have provided comedian Gallagher inspiration for the " Sledge-O-Matic " routine since the 1980s.

* 1950 – Alan Colmes, American comedian and talk show host

His first success in radio was as writer for comedian Derek Roy's show.

* August 5 – Graham Elwood, American comedian and game show host

** Ray Combs, American game show host, and comedian ( b. 1956 )

* September 29 – Leslie Crowther, British TV comedian and game show host ( b. 1933 )

** Graham Norton, Irish comedian and talk show host

Consequently, the show has a long tradition of psychologically abused husbands, most famously Stan Ogden and Jack Duckworth, husbands of Hilda and Vera, respectively.

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

Though the concept of a shared universe was not new or unique to comics in 1961, writer / editor Stan Lee, together with several artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created a series of titles where events in one book would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters ' growth and change.

The show, which lasted for 871 performances during its initial run, featured sketches written by Mad regulars Stan Hart and Larry Siegel interspersed with comedic songs ( one of which was written by an uncredited Stephen Sondheim ).

Musical satirist Stan Freberg and his frequent collaborator, arranger Billy May, recorded a scathing 1957 parody of the Welk TV show titled " Wun ' erful!

The situation led longtime NHL broadcaster and writer Stan Fischler to call the Lightning a " skating vaudeville show ".

The show's producer Stan Rogow says the visual look of the show was partly inspired by Run Lola Run.

Five months after the Christmas special, Morecambe took part in a show hosted by close friend and comedian Stan Stennett at the Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire on a Sunday evening.

He also toured with the Jazz at the Philharmonic show in 1957 and 1960, the first tour yielding a memorable live album featuring Johnson and tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.

In the early days of television, Benjy works as a junior comedy writer for a variety show starring Stan " King " Kaiser ( Joseph Bologna ).

The show included " comedy interludes " performed by Leslie Crowther, George Chisholm and Stan Stennett.

Stan, Colin, Dawn and Murray do not appear in the show.

Sonic Youth, joined by percussionist Tim Barnes, played along with silent Stan Brakhage films at a 2003 benefit show for the Anthology Film Archives.

The show, featuring the talents of voice artists Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, would earn Clampett three Emmys.

* In the 1950s, Stan Freberg and Daws Butler wrote and performed St. George and the Dragon-Net ( a spoof of the tale and of Dragnet ) for Freberg's radio show.

Stan is generally friendly, down-to-earth, knowledgeable, helpful, laid back, and often shares with Kyle a leadership role as the main protagonist of the show.

Ever since the show's second episode, " Weight Gain 4000 " ( season one, 1997 ), Stan, like all other characters on the show, has been animated with computer software, though he is portrayed to give the impression that the show still utilizes its original technique.

The only adult on the show that Stan consistently trusted was Chef, the cafeteria worker at his school, as Stan generally holds the rest of the show's adult population in low regard due to their tendency to both behave irrationally when subjected to the scams, cults, and sensationalized media stories of which he is often skeptical, and engage in hypocritical behavior.

Those who share a common political stance with those expressed by Stan and other characters on the show are sometimes described as South Park Republicans, or South Park conservatives, terms attributed to political commentator Andrew Sullivan.

In response to the focus on elements of satire in South Park, Parker has said that the main goal of the show is to portray Stan and his friends as " kids just being kids " as a means of accurately showcasing " what it's like to be in school in America ".

When the character of Kenny McCormick was temporarily written off the show near the end of the fifth season ( 2001 ), Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Cartman allow Butters into their group as the " fourth friend ", a role he continued to fill until midway through season six.

Jon " Stan " White joined as bass player on the new recordings and debuted live on 30 June 2011 at Wolverhampton Slade Rooms where Magazine were playing a warm up show for their Hop Farm festival appearance two days later.

* Stan Marsh, a character on the TV show South Park