The channel was launched on February 13, 2009, replacing predecessor Toon Disney, carrying action and comedy programming from Disney Channel and the former Jetix block from Toon Disney along with some first-run original programming and off-network syndicated shows.

It is in direct contrast to sister channel TBS, which shows more comedy related programming, and by extension Cartoon Network, which showed exclusively animated programming at the time ( it still has a predominately animated schedule ).

The channel shows the German premiere of 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights, as well a wide variety of old and recent American drama and comedy, including Murder, She Wrote, Northern Exposure, Monk, Third Watch, Rescue Me, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, ER, The King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, Caroline in the City, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones and Falling Skies.

The series took the 2pm weekday comedy spot that A3TV had opened, and remained anchored there for years, where the channel rerun the series in loop numerous times.

The television and multimedia subject matter of the sketches, pace, style and devices were real points of difference from predecessor sketch comedy shows of the time, particularly earlier shows such as The Mavis Bramston Show, The Naked Vicar Show, Australia You're Standing In It, The D-Generation, The Comedy Company: Fast Forward was more media-focused and parody-focused ; a real difference, and the binding force for the whole show, was the now-famous channel changing device.

* Comedy Central, a TV channel with comedy TV shows like South Park, and Tosh. 0

In 1994 / 1995 a comedy segment entitled " Rollie TV ", concerning a fictitious cable television channel devoted solely to the life of Rollie Fingers and helmed by a Rollie Fingers obsessed host named Greg Shuttlecock, aired once a week on The Steve Dahl Radio Show on WMVP AM1000 in Chicago.

In March 2009, he appeared as himself, busking, in Vidiotic, a comedy pilot on the British channel BBC Three.

The channel launched on March 29, 1998, broadcasting comedy, drama and lifestyle programs from BBC Television and other British television broadcasters like ITV and Channel 4.

* Peninta-Peninta ( 50-50 ), comedy, ended-cancelled after third season due to financial crisis of the production and the channel.

: An entertainment channel in Australia and New Zealand, carrying drama and comedy programmes from the BBC, Talkback Thames, ITV and Channel 4.

The channel broadcast drama, comedy and lifestyle programmes which it repeated on a monthly basis.

Gold is a classic comedy channel from the UKTV network, broadcasting to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

It launched on 1 November 1992 as UK Gold, before, in 2008, it was split into Gold and current flagship UKTV channel, Watch, with comedy based programming now airing on Gold, non-crime drama and entertainment programming airing on Watch and Quiz shows and more high-brow and male based comedy airing on Dave.

The UK Gold brand was expanded in October 1998 with the launch of the digital only channel UK Gold Classics, broadcasting some of the older comedy serials that were being lost from the UK Gold schedule, as the channel moved towards more modern programming.

" the article went on to say " the channel is looking to develop a mix of panel shows, sketch shows, sitcoms and comedy dramas.

The output of the channel is mainly British comedy programmes including repeats of BBC shows and sometimes feature length films.

Stefan Raab became popular as host of the comedy show Vivasion for the German music television channel VIVA from 1993 to 1998.

It continued to be the most-watched satellite channel in Britain and Ireland, a position it held for most of the 1990s, with many first-run US imports such as The Simpsons ( which traditionally has been the channel's main selling-point, remaining a satellite exclusive until it finally made its terrestrial television appearance on BBC2 in 1996 ), Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, ER and The X-Files, as well as some older programmes such as the various Star Trek series, Hill Street Blues, M * A * S * H *, and Lucille Ball's various comedy series.

Sky's original entertainment channel mainly featured American drama's and comedy series such as, Hart to Hart and The Hulk Hogan Show.

The channel was launched by Stuart Murphy, who previously ran BBC Choice, and before that UK Play, the now-discontinued UKTV music and comedy channel.

The channel was expected to air both Irish and international bespoke programing in current affairs as well as drama, comedy and documentary titles from some of the world ’ s best

The only original works attempting to reach any stature: Tennessee Williams' disappointing domestic comedy, Period Of Adjustment, and Arthur Laurents' clever but empty Invitation To A March.

We now have not only what has been called over here the comedy of menace but we also have horror jokes, magazines known as Horror Comics, and sick comedians.

The cowboy films, the cops and robbers films, and the slapstick comedy films culminating in an insane chase are not only catering to what critics may assume to be a vulgar taste for violence ; ;

But the stuff of tragedy was not truly present and the play became only comedy acted rather slowly.

It is danced by some thirty-five men and no women, and it contains everything in the books -- lusty comedy, gregarious cavorting, and tricks that only madmen or Russians would attempt to make the human body perform.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

He attempted to develop a solo comedy act, but his Jewish impersonation was poorly received and he performed it only once.

Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ) was a satirical comedy about Cold War paranoia, while The Apartment ( 1960 ), Alfie ( 1966 ) and The Graduate ( 1967 ) featured sexual themes in a way that would have been impossible only a few years previously.

Though glamor and wealth certainly plays a role for only famous celebrities, most people in the sports and entertainments sphere, be it music, film, television, radio, modelling, comedy, literature etc.

Immediately after completing The Road to Glory Hawks began writing his next film, Fig Leaves, his first ( and only until 1935 ) comedy.

The surviving kinescope of the live Benny telecast features Bogart in his only TV sketch comedy outing.

Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which was ranked 5th ).

( Sennett's corporate bosses retained the Keystone trademark and produced a cheap series of comedy shorts that were " Keystones " in name only: they were unsuccessful, and Sennett had no connection with them.

Falk turned in a gem of a performance as one of two cabbies who falls victim to greed in the epic 1963 star-studded comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, even though he appears only in the last fifth of the movie.

Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only success was June Moon, a comedy co-written with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman.

Galaxy Quest ( 1999 ), a comedy about actors from a defunct science-fiction television series serving on a real starship, included an actor who is terrified that he's going to die on an away mission because his only appearance in the show was as an unnamed character who was killed early in the episode.

The film was his first major studio picture, and was only moderately successful, but through it he was still able to secure funding for Evil Dead III, which was retitled Army of Darkness and turned away almost totally from horror in favor of fantasy and comedy elements.

Isabel Cristina Pinedo, author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, states, " The horror genre must keep terror and comedy in tension if it is to successfully tread the thin line that separates it from terrorism and parody ... this delicate balance is struck in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which the decaying corpse of Grandpa not only incorporates horrific and humorous effects, but actually uses one to exacerbate the other.

The pair were notable for their comedy films, successful not only in Italy, but also abroad.

Clouds is not the only Aristophanes comedy which portrays conflict between an older man and his younger counterpart.

Act II opens with Vladimir singing a recursive round about a dog, which could illustrate the cyclical nature of the play's universe, and also point toward the play's debt to the carnivalesque, music hall traditions, and vaudeville comedy ( this is only one of a number of canine references and allusions in the play ).

** Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, Nevada, reuniting the comedy team for the first ( and only ) time in over 20 years.

It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's ninth decade, and only the second of his 26 operas to be a comedy.

It is the only comedy among his mature operas ( he having come to reject his early Das Liebesverbot ), and is his only opera centered on a historically well-defined time and place rather than a mythical or legendary setting.