"""Confessions of a Sex Maniac"" (1974). He appeared in a children's TV comedy series, ""Hogg's Back"" (1975) as Doctor Hogg, an eccentric general practitioner (GP); in 2016 this series has appeared on Talking Pictures TV. Royle acted with Wendy Richard and Pat Coombs over two series. (Hog's Back is an area in Surrey in Britain.) Royle played an unfortunate guest in a ""Fawlty Towers"" episode, ""The Kipper and the Corpse"", wherein he played the eponymous corpse. He also was the second actor to portray Monsieur Ernest LeClerc in the sixth series of ""'Allo 'Allo!"", and had a supporting role in"
"of the original productions. Some notable sketches included: ""From Here to Obscurity"" (""From Here to Eternity""), ""Aggravation Boulevard"" (""Sunset Boulevard""), ""Hat Basterson"" (""Bat Masterson""), and ""No West for the Wicked"" (""Stagecoach""). They also performed some recurring sketches. ""The Hickenloopers"", television's first bickering-couple sketch, predated ""The Honeymooners"". As ""The Professor"", Caesar was the daffy expert who bluffed his way through his interviews with earnest roving reporter Carl Reiner. In its various incarnations, ""The Professor"" could be Gut von Fraidykat (mountain-climbing expert), Ludwig von Spacebrain (space expert), or Ludwig von Henpecked (marriage expert). Later, ""The Professor"" was inspiration for Mel Brooks' ""The"
"The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show is an American animated television program produced by Filmation for MGM Television in 1980, on CBS for Saturday mornings. The show lasted two seasons (with season two consisting of reruns) and the individual episodes were eventually added to syndicated ""Tom and Jerry"" packages. Most voices were done by Frank Welker (mainly Tom and Jerry) and Filmation head Lou Scheimer provided the voice of Nibbles (erroneously giving him an adult voice). This was the second made-for-television ""Tom and Jerry"" production. The series was notable in being the first attempt"
"The Abbott and Costello Show The Abbott and Costello Show is an American television sitcom starring the popular comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The program premiered in syndication in the fall of 1952 and ran two seasons, to the spring of 1954. Each season ran 26 episodes. The series is considered to be among the most influential comedy programs in history. In 1998 ""Entertainment Weekly"" praised the series as one of the ""100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time"". In 2007, ""Time"" magazine selected it for its ""The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME."" Jerry Seinfeld has"
"one of the most human—not to mention hilarious—episodes ever."" The funeral scene was directly parodied in the ""It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown"" episode of ""The Cleveland Show"". Chuckles Bites the Dust ""Chuckles Bites the Dust"" is an episode of the television situation comedy ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"" which first aired on October 25, 1975. The episode's plot centers on the WJM-TV staff's humorous reaction to the absurd death of Chuckles the Clown, an often-mentioned but seldom-seen character who starred in an eponymously titled show at the station. News anchor Ted Baxter is hired as the grand marshal for"
"is editing a book written by Ray's girlfriend. The episode was written by Larry Charles and directed by Tom Cherones. The character of Jerry's neighbor Kramer (Michael Richards) is developed in this episode, as he goes undercover as a cop to retrieve the statue. Charles was interested in the development of Kramer, as he felt George and Jerry had their counterparts in co-creators Larry David and Seinfeld. Richards enjoyed how his character acted in the episode and encouraged Charles to continue exploiting the Kramer character. ""The Statue"" first aired on NBC on April 11, 1991 in the United States and"
"The New Casper Cartoon Show The New Casper Cartoon Show is a 1963 animated television series that appeared on ABC's Saturday morning schedule, based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper's co-stars included Wendy the Good Little Witch, The Ghostly Trio, and the seldom seen Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, and a horse named Nightmare. The show also featured older 1959–62 Famous Studios cartoons, mostly Noveltoons and ""Modern Madcaps"" which were shown as ""Harveytoons"", and 26 new Casper the Friendly Ghost episodes that were created specifically for this show (animated by Paramount Cartoon Studios), though all"
"the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City, aired on the Showtime cable network in 1985, and later added to the ""Honeymooners"" syndication package. Some of them include earlier versions of plot lines later used in the 'classic 39' episodes. One (a Christmas episode duplicated several years later with Meadows as Alice) had all Gleason's best-known characters (Ralph Kramden, the Poor Soul, Rudy the Repairman, Reginald Van Gleason, Fenwick Babbitt and Joe the Bartender) featured in and out of the Kramden apartment. The storyline involved a wild Christmas party hosted by Reginald Van Gleason up the block from"
"and The Big Bopper, which is a reference to the tragical plane crash on February 3, 1959. Legoland is referenced when Smithers says Mr. Burns has dumped nuclear waste under it for years. The scene where Ned Flanders stares at Homer and Marge at night from his bedroom window, in the dark with the cigar lit, is a parody of ""Rear Window"". The scene where Mr Burns attempts to brick Homer up is a satire of ""The Cask of Amontillado"" by Edgar Allan Poe. The episode ends with the theme song to the 1969-1972 show ""The Courtship of Eddie's Father""."
"the decades. It was also the home for the annual Labor Day MDA telethon. In ""The Simpsons"", the character of Professor Frink is based on Lewis' Julius Kelp from ""The Nutty Professor."" In ""Family Guy,"" Peter recreates Lewis' 'Chairman of the Board' scene from ""The Errand Boy"". Comedian, actor and friend of Lewis, Martin Short satirized him on the series ""SCTV"" in the sketches ""The Nutty Lab Assistant"", ""Martin Scorsese presents Jerry Lewis Live on the Champs Elysees!"", ""The Tender Fella"", and ""Scenes From an Idiots Marriage"", as well as on ""Saturday Night Live""s ""Celebrity Jeopardy!"". Also on ""SNL"", the"
"season has an approval rating of 71% based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The Opposition with Jordan Klepper The Opposition with Jordan Klepper is an American late-night talk and news satire program that aired on Comedy Central from September 25, 2017 to June 28, 2018. The show was hosted by comedian Jordan Klepper, a former correspondent on ""The Daily Show"", and satirizes right-wing politics. It aired each Monday through Thursday at 11:30 pm (EST), following ""The Daily Show"". On June 15, 2018, Comedy Central announced that it was canceling the show after one season, but that"
"The Flintstone Comedy Show The Flintstone Comedy Show (not to be confused with the shortened, re-titled 1973 version of CBS's ""The Flintstone Comedy Hour"") is a Saturday morning animated series revival and spin-off of ""The Flintstones"" produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired on NBC from November 22, 1980 to September 11, 1982. Outside North America, the show was released under title of ""Flintstone Frolics"". The show contained six segments: ""The Flintstone Family Adventures"", ""Bedrock Cops"", ""Pebbles, Dino and Bamm-Bamm"", ""Captain Caveman"", ""Dino and Cavemouse"" and ""The Frankenstones"". The series featured new characters (The Frankenstones, Cavemouse) as well as older characters (Penny,"
"on DVD and Blu-ray in Region 1. The 3-disc set will feature 55 original theatrical cartoons as well as all 26 episodes from ""The New Casper Cartoon Show"" on DVD for the first time. The New Casper Cartoon Show The New Casper Cartoon Show is a 1963 animated television series that appeared on ABC's Saturday morning schedule, based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper's co-stars included Wendy the Good Little Witch, The Ghostly Trio, and the seldom seen Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, and a horse named Nightmare. The show also featured older 1959–62 Famous"
"and comedian Bobby Davro. The ""Ionian Nerve Grip"" which Kryten pretends to use on Rimmer is patterned after the famous Vulcan nerve pinch from ""Star Trek"". Rob Grant has described this episode as one of his favourites, and has said that ""I think that's the funniest start to a show we've ever done, [also] it's got some great set pieces in it, the chopsticks scene..."" Legion (Red Dwarf) ""Legion"" is the second episode of science fiction sit-com ""Red Dwarf"" Series VI and the 32nd in the series run. It was first broadcast on British television on 14 October 1993, was"
"the film. Ralph believes a rat is the character Elmo from PBS's ""Sesame Street"", while Skinner reads the students Mark Twain's ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". The episode's couch gag includes the family recreating scenes from sitcoms from different decades: ""The Honeymooners"" from the 1950s, ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"" from the 1960s, ""The Brady Bunch"" from the 1970s and ""Cheers"" from the 1980s. As an in-joke, Sideshow Bob walks in on the ""Cheers"" segment of the gag dressed as Dr. Frasier Crane; both characters are played by Kelsey Grammer. Homer's premonition of the massive accident in his house is"
"According to him, the line was ""a last-minute addition"" to the episode. The episode's plot is loosely based on the American comedy film ""Paper Moon"", which was also the inspiration for Bart and Homer's swindle of Ned Flanders in the episode. The title of the episode is a parody of the 1981 film ""The Great Muppet Caper"". The title was pitched by ""Simpsons"" writer Matt Selman. The episode's ending lampoons the cliche of having twist endings at the end of heist films. ”Magic Palace”, the magic-themed restaurant that the Simpsons visit in the beginning of the episode, is a parody"
"Wiggy, Moonrock and Schleprock of 1971's ""The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show"" and 1972's ""The Flintstone Comedy Hour"" on CBS, Al Capp's the Shmoo from his show ""The New Shmoo"" which also aired on NBC in 1979, Captain Caveman from his own series on ABC in 1977 which lasted 3 seasons). A series of gags, educational spots, games, how-to-draw and a dance-of-the-week were featured in-between the six segments every week. In 1982, reruns of the show were repackaged for two seasons under the title The Flintstone Funnies. Reruns of ""Dino and Cavemouse"" aired on the Disney Channel adaption of ""Wake, Rattle,"
"grasping how a chimpanzee can be called Bear. B. J. and the Bear B. J. and the Bear is an American comedy series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. Created by Glen A. Larson and Christopher Crowe, the series stars Greg Evigan. The series was produced when the CB Radio/trucking craze had peaked in the United States, following the 1974-1976 television series ""Movin' On,"" the number one song ""Convoy"" (1975) by C.W. McCall, as well as the films ""White Line Fever"" (1975), ""Smokey and the Bandit"" (1977), ""Convoy"" (1978), and ""Every Which Way but Loose"" (1978). The theme"
"for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Torn and Tambor were nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Dana Carvey and Carol Burnett were nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor and Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Klein and Shandling were nominated for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for the pilot, ""The Hey Now Episode"", which was broadcast at the end of the season. Shandling, Paul Simms, Peter Tolan and Rosie Shuster were nominated in the same category for ""The Spider Episode"". The second season premiered on June 2, 1993 and ended on September 29, 1993. The"
"Katy Perry as herself. It parodies the two television series ""The Muppet Show"" and ""Sesame Street"", both of which feature the puppet characters The Muppets. References to those shows include puppet versions of Grampa and Jasper heckling the cast of the ""Simpsons"" puppet show from a box seat in the manner of Statler and Waldorf from ""The Muppet Show"", and Moe devouring cookies like Cookie Monster does on ""Sesame Street"". Brad Trechak of AOL TV noted that ""the plot of the segment was silly and simplistic in line with the style of ""Sesame Street"" but had some real adult moments"
"has been more noted for situation comedies such as ""I Love Lucy"", ""The Honeymooners"", ""The Andy Griffith Show"", ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"", ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"", ""All in the Family"", ""Happy Days"", ""Family Ties"", ""Cheers"", ""The Cosby Show"", ""Seinfeld"", ""Friends"", ""Frasier"", ""Everybody Loves Raymond"", ""The King of Queens"", ""How I Met Your Mother"", ""The Big Bang Theory"" and ""Modern Family"". However, there have also existed sketch comedy/variety series during prime time such as ""Texaco Star Theatre"", ""The Carol Burnett Show"" and ""Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In"". The most prominent as well as the longest-running sketch comedy program is ""Saturday"
"The Opposition with Jordan Klepper The Opposition with Jordan Klepper is an American late-night talk and news satire program that aired on Comedy Central from September 25, 2017 to June 28, 2018. The show was hosted by comedian Jordan Klepper, a former correspondent on ""The Daily Show"", and satirizes right-wing politics. It aired each Monday through Thursday at 11:30 pm (EST), following ""The Daily Show"". On June 15, 2018, Comedy Central announced that it was canceling the show after one season, but that Klepper would be hosting a new primetime weekly talk show, ""Klepper"". Jordan Klepper served as a correspondent"
"Kung Fu Kapers ""Kung Fu Kapers"" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series ""The Goodies"". It is especially known for causing a viewer to die from laughing. This episode is also known as ""Ecky-Thump"". It was written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie. Tim and Graeme are attempting to learn Kung Fu in the Goodies' office, but Bill is extremely disparaging of their techniques and shows them that he knows some rather impressive martial arts skills of his own. Under pressure from the other two, Bill reveals himself as a master of the"
"The Ritz (TV series) The Ritz was a six-part BBC Television series that aired in 1987. It was a Comedy/Drama set in a night club, where three bouncers—Chike played by Paul Rider, Skodge played by Andrew Dunn and Kenny played by Andrew Livingstone—helped to protect the newly formed Ritz night club from a rival club owner, Mad Mick, played by Richard Ridings. The series was written and co-directed by John Godber; his co-director was Martin Shardlow and was based on John Godber's stage play 'Bouncers'. The series also spawned a one episode spin-off called ""The Continental"". Andrew Dunn later starred"
"of the series, though are uncredited in ""A Touch of Class"" (the pilot). They seldom have main roles in the plot, usually being background characters adding to the atmosphere. Miss Tibbs plays a larger role in the episode ""The Kipper and the Corpse"", the only time she is seen away from Miss Gatsby, where she is repeatedly startled by a guest's corpse, which Basil, Manuel and Polly are desperately trying to keep hidden from guests until the undertaker arrives. Her unfortunate encounters with the deceased include being knocked unconscious by Polly, being locked in a cupboard with Leeman and fainting"
"Trevor and Simon Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson are a British comedy duo (known as 'Trevor and Simon, or Trev and Simon), and are best known for a family-friendly version of anarchic alternative comedy on BBC1’s Saturday morning shows, Going Live! (1987-1993), and Live and Kicking (1993-1997). Trevor and Simon met as drama students at Manchester University in 1981. Hickson was a year older than Neal. They first encountered each other at the drama department's Christmas show, in which Neal played a squirrel on a skateboard . In a podcast, the pair recount how comedian Ben Elton taught Hickson Greek"
"The Comedians (2015 TV series) The Comedians is an American comedy television series starring Billy Crystal and Josh Gad as fictional versions of themselves. A 13-episode first season was ordered by FX, and premiered on April 9, 2015. The series was developed by Larry Charles, Billy Crystal, Matt Nix, and Ben Wexler. On July 23, 2015, the series was cancelled after one season. It is an adaptation of the Swedish SVT series ""Ulveson And Herngren"". ""The Comedians"" received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has a rating of 58%, based on 38 reviews, with an average rating"
"their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts and laughs. In 1997, the episodes ""Password"" and ""The Fat Farm"" were ranked #5 and #58, respectively, on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. The show received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. Its fourth season, from 1973–74, remains the most recent nominee for a show that aired during a Friday time slot. The success of the 1968 film version of the stage play of ""The Odd Couple"", which starred Jack Lemmon as Felix and Walter Matthau as Oscar, catalyzed production of the television show. Mickey"
"Alastair Quince, introducing each episode (a parody of Alastair Cooke hosting ""Masterpiece Theatre"") and he also directed 31 episodes of the series. NBC aired a comedy half-hour repertory series called ""Carol & Company"" that premiered in March 1990. It proved to be moderately successful in the ratings and was renewed for a second season. The regulars on the show included Peter Krause, Jeremy Piven, Terry Kiser, Meagen Fay, Anita Barone, and Richard Kind (and occasional guest stars, including Betty White and Burt Reynolds); each week's show was a different half-hour comedy play. This program lasted until July 1991. CBS brought"
"where the pizza had come from. This reflects the earlier flashback scene where Grampa Simpson watches Homer as an infant, chewing on a slice of pizza in the hospital. The scene was replaced with the family cheering Homer on while he is in intensive care. The opening sequence of the episode is a parody of American television show ""COPS""; it was not in the original animatic and added later because the episode was too short to fit in its required 22-minute length. When Homer is performing a sock-puppet show to Lisa and Bart, he uses Akbar and Jeff, both of"
"Comedy Central announced a brand-new spinoff to occupy the 11:30pm time slot which had not had an original show since the canceling of ""The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore"". ""The Daily Show""'s senior correspondent Jordan Klepper was enlisted as host, with Klepper, Stuart Miller, and Trevor Noah serving as executive producers. The show intends to ""satirize the hyperbolic, conspiracy-laden noise machine that is the alternative-media landscape on both the right and left."" The show aired from September 25, 2017 to June 28, 2018. Comedy Central announced that Klepper would be hosting a new primetime weekly talk show, ""Klepper"", to debut"
"Clown hosted a similarly named program, the ""Krusty Komedy Klassic"", live at the Apollo Theater. He is promptly booed by the audience for having the show's initials, KKK, prominently displayed on the stage. Carson's Comedy Classics Carson's Comedy Classics was a stripped half-hour syndicated television show that was first released to U.S. television stations in 1983. The program was made from segments and sketches taken from the first 20 years of ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"" (1962-1982). Johnny Carson's full tenure on the program, which originally aired on the NBC Television Network, was from 1962 to 1992. The series"
"to Be Ignorant"", and other memorable parodies were presented by such satirists as Spike Jones, Stoopnagle and Budd, Stan Freberg and Bob and Ray. British comedy reached American shores in a major assault when NBC carried ""The Goon Show"" in the mid-1950s. Some shows originated as stage productions: Clifford Goldsmith's play ""What a Life"" was reworked into NBC's popular, long-running ""The Aldrich Family"" (1939–1953) with the familiar catchphrases ""Henry! Henry Aldrich!,"" followed by Henry's answer, ""Coming, Mother!"" Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit, ""You Can't Take It with You"" (1936), became a weekly situation comedy heard"