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"television distribution is entitled ""Alter Ego"". The longer version is the one most often seen today. The title echoes the film ""A Yank at Oxford"" (1938). Stan and Ollie are down to their last six bucks and call a lift to a job agency to find work. A City Water Dept. truck driver offers them a lift and drenches them with water as a joke and leaves them behind. They finally arrive in a badly damaged car that has been towed away. At the job agency a call comes from Mrs. Vandeveer looking for a maid and butler to help"
"a studio set worked. Only a few days after filming on ""The Man in the Iron Mask"" was complete, Cushing was in the Schwab's Drug Store, a famous Sunset Boulevard hangout spot for actors, when he learned producer Hal Roach was seeking an English actor for a comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. Cushing sought and was cast in the role. Cushing appeared only briefly in ""A Chump at Oxford"" (1940) and his scenes took just one week to film, but he was proud to work with whom he called ""two of the greatest comedians the cinema has ever produced."""
"Out West (1947 film) Out West is the 99th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1947 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Shemp is suffering from an enlarged vein in his leg, and fears that it will lead to amputation. His doctor (Vernon Dent), however, advises that a few weeks in the old west will cure him. Upon arrival in a somewhat lawless town, the boys befriend the ruthless Doc Barker (Jack Norman). Barker listens to Shemp's"
"writer for ""Duffy's Tavern"", a radio situation comedy. Martin and Dan Rowan formed the comedy team Rowan and Martin in 1952, and played in nightclubs across the United States and overseas. Martin played a drunk heckling a Shakespearean performer, a mainstay of their live act for years. The duo could frequently be seen as host-performers on NBC's ""Colgate Comedy Hour,"" alternating with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and other more established names. In 1958 they starred in a feature film, Hal Kanter's comedy Western ""Once Upon a Horse"", which failed to catch on with moviegoers. In 1960, their contract with"
"""hits a better comedy tempo than any of his [Arbuckle's] recent productions."" Keaton's comic tumbles were singled out for praise, as was Arbuckle's direction of the film: ""Good camera work aids the comedy."" Out West (1918 film) Out West is a 1918 American two-reel silent comedy film, a satire on contemporary westerns, starring Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and Al St. John. It was the first of Arbuckle's ""Comique"" films to be filmed on the west coast, the previous five having been filmed in and around New York City. The idea for the story came from Natalie Talmadge, who was"
"Out West (1918 film) Out West is a 1918 American two-reel silent comedy film, a satire on contemporary westerns, starring Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and Al St. John. It was the first of Arbuckle's ""Comique"" films to be filmed on the west coast, the previous five having been filmed in and around New York City. The idea for the story came from Natalie Talmadge, who was later to become Keaton's first wife. The film contains racial stereotypes and attitudes, including a scene in which a gang of rowdy cowboys make a black man, played by Ernie Morrison Sr., dance"
"this is the one to study."" Way Out West (1930 film) Way Out West is a 1930 American comedy film directed by Fred Niblo and starring William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, and Ralph Bushman. It tells the story of ""Windy"", a con man who cheats a group of cowboys out of their money. When they discover his cheating and learn that he himself has been robbed, they force him to work on a ranch until he has paid his debt. Windy, a sideshow barker, cheats a group of cowboys out of their pay, but is then robbed himself. When"
"Out (1982 film) Deadly Drifter (also known as Out) is a satirical 1982 film directed by Eli Hollander. The film is based on Ronald Sukenick's 1973 novel, ""OUT"". It stars Peter Coyote, O-Lan Jones, and Danny Glover. The movie tells the tale of Rex (Coyote) roaming the U.S. doing various assignments for a mysterious group of ""urban guerrillas"" they call ""Our Friends"". In each meeting the person or persons designated ""It"" carries a hidden stick of dynamite. Director Eli Hollander summarizes the film, ""A subtitle of it could be 'From Yippie to Yuppie. And the '80s are certainly the age"
"Way Out West (1930 film) Way Out West is a 1930 American comedy film directed by Fred Niblo and starring William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, and Ralph Bushman. It tells the story of ""Windy"", a con man who cheats a group of cowboys out of their money. When they discover his cheating and learn that he himself has been robbed, they force him to work on a ranch until he has paid his debt. Windy, a sideshow barker, cheats a group of cowboys out of their pay, but is then robbed himself. When the cowboys discover they have been"
"The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again is a 1979 American comedy-western film produced by Walt Disney Productions and a sequel to ""The Apple Dumpling Gang"" (1975), starring the comedy duo of Tim Conway and Don Knotts reprising their respective roles as Amos and Theodore. The film also stars Tim Matheson, Harry Morgan, and Kenneth Mars. Ruth Buzzi appears in a small cameo as a wild farsighted woman. Amos Tucker (Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Knotts), a pair of bumbling holdup men now going straight, arrive in the ""boom town"" of Junction City to start anew."
"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"
"A Yank at Oxford A Yank at Oxford (1938) is a British film directed by Jack Conway from a screenplay by John Monk Saunders and Leon Gordon. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios at Denham Studios and stars Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh and Edmund Gwenn. ""A Yank at Oxford"" marks Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor first film appearance together; they would later appear as the romantic lead couple in the remake of ""Waterloo Bridge"" (1940). Before this film, Taylor was seen as the ""romantic love interest"" and thus as a 1930s equivalent to Rudolph Valentino,"
"of yet. Pustra/Vile-een's Vaudeville Pustra/Vile-een's Vaudeville was an unusual comedy duo that performed on the Alternative Cabaret and Neo-Burlesque scene in London, England and abroad from 2006 till 2009. With their trademark comedy and unusually strange stage acts, they quickly established themselves as a refreshing, subversive and highly talented duo with a twist of Sideshow, known for performing with pancake make-up and in their underwear. The duo was a product of the MySpace era and they created their act online, inspired by Silent films and slapstick comedy of the early 1900s - 1930s and continued to use Social Media to"
"Travellers Cheques"", ""Strike"", ""G.L.C."", ""Gino"", ""Susie"", ""Mr Jolly Lives Next Door"", ""Spaghetti Hoops"", ""Red Nose of Courage"", ""Bullshitters"", ""Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown"", ""Gregory Diary of a Nutcase"", ""The Crying Game"", ""Four Men in a Car"" (revised edit) and ""Four Men in a Plane"" The Comic Strip The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as a pioneering example of the alternative comedy scene. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel"
"Way...Way Out Way...Way Out is a 1966 American sex comedy film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Malcolm Stuart, directed by Gordon Douglas, that stars Jerry Lewis. The film, released on October 21, 1966, was both a critical and commercial flop, recouping less than half of its production budget. The year is 1989, and the United States continues to be engaged in a Space Race with the Soviet Union. The two male astronauts manning the U.S. weather station on the Moon, Hoffman and Schmidlap, are suffering the effects of their long stay in space and need to be relieved, as"
"too crude for a mainstream audience, Derek and Clive bootleg recordings circulated. They were mostly unscripted dialogues incorporating copious swearing - including frequent use of the word ""cunt"". The characters, supposedly two lavatory attendants (although in one sketch, 'Back of the Cab', they play the roles of two London taxi drivers) first surfaced in the mid-1970s. Cook and Moore were performing on Broadway with their revue show ""Good Evening"", a live version of their television series ""Not Only... But Also"". The relationship between the two men had become strained as a result of Cook's worsening alcoholism. To reassure Moore, Cook"
"Outside Bet Outside Bet, also known as Weighed In: The Story of the Mumper, is a British comedy film directed by Sacha Bennett and starring Bob Hoskins, Jenny Agutter, Philip Davis and Adam Deacon. The film was released on 20 April 2001. It is 1985. Thatcher is in power, Sade is on the radio, and the print workers have gone on strike. But nothing, not even a scale eight earthquake can put a dampener on a group of close friends that meet every Sunday in their regular South London pub for a pint and free flowing banter of the highest"
"Way Out West (group) Way Out West are an English electronic music duo consisting of producers Jody Wisternoff and Nick Warren. They rose to fame in the 1990s with their UK chart hits ""The Gift"" and ""Ajare"", and have since released five studio albums; ""Way Out West"", ""Intensify"", ""Don't Look Now"", ""We Love Machine"", and ""Tuesday Maybe"". They have produced and performed together for over twenty five years. In the early 1990s, the duo met in a record store that Nick Warren was working in, and discovered their similar direction in music. They then initially produced music under the names"
"and the Beanstalk. They also made several appearances in the comedy ""Last of the Summer Wine"". Cannon and Ball Tommy Cannon (born Thomas Derbyshire, 27 June 1938) and Bobby Ball (born Robert Harper, 28 January 1944), known collectively as Cannon and Ball, are an English comedy double act best known for their comedy variety show ""The Cannon and Ball Show"", which lasted for nine years on ITV. The duo met in the early 1960s while working as welders in Oldham, Lancashire. They started out as singers working the pubs and clubs of Greater Manchester and switched to comedy after being"
"often using lines from previous scenes, thus the film, though linear, is a cyclic story. The movie was immortalized by O-Lan Jones's heartrending lines ""allow simmer"" and ""you can't have the schleung."" Out (1982 film) Deadly Drifter (also known as Out) is a satirical 1982 film directed by Eli Hollander. The film is based on Ronald Sukenick's 1973 novel, ""OUT"". It stars Peter Coyote, O-Lan Jones, and Danny Glover. The movie tells the tale of Rex (Coyote) roaming the U.S. doing various assignments for a mysterious group of ""urban guerrillas"" they call ""Our Friends"". In each meeting the person or"
"date currently scheduled. Fry and Laurie have also appeared together in various television advertisements, interviews, audio books, and other projects. Fry and Laurie Fry and Laurie are an English comedy double act, mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s. The duo consisted of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst all three attended the University of Cambridge. They initially gained prominence in a television sketch comedy, ""A Bit of Fry & Laurie"" (1987, 1989–1995), and have collaborated on numerous other projects including, most notably, the television series ""Jeeves and Wooster"" (1990–1993) in"
"as writer. The Nimmo Twins The Nimmo Twins are a sketch comedy duo from Norfolk, UK comprising Owen Evans and Karl Minns. Formed in 1996 in Norwich, they first came to national attention after their show ""Posh Spice Nude"" was a sell-out success at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival. Appearances on BBC One's ""Stand Up Show"" followed and they became regulars on Radio 4's ""Loose Ends"" programme with Ned Sherrin. They returned to Edinburgh in 1998 and 1999, selling out in critically acclaimed shows both years. They toured Britain, played Paris, New York and two sell-out years at the Singapore Comedy"
"Ross & West, he toured the hotel circuit in the Catskills and Poconos with Ross Martin, quipping, ""Everything we did may not have been original, but what we stole was good!"" After Martin left, he was replaced by Mickey Ross, a college friend of West's who changed his name from Isadore Rovinsky so that the comedy duo could retain the Ross & West name. West appeared on Broadway in the 1956 production of ""Bells Are Ringing"", creating the role of Dr. Kitchell, the song-writing dentist on stage and appearing in the 1960 film version starring Judy Holliday and Dean Martin."
"physical comedy. The first film starred Bill Bixby and Susan Clark in 1975 and was called ""The Apple Dumpling Gang"". The film centered around Bixby being tricked into taking care of a trio of orphans as the pair of lovable holdup men named Amos Tucker (Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Knotts) attempt to steal the gold nugget the children find. The film was a commercial success, and a sequel was made starring the pair in 1979 called ""The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again"". The sequel did not have the other cast members but was hugely profitable for Disney. Conway wrote two"
"Abbott and Costello Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work on radio and in film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s. Their patter routine ""Who's on First?"" is one of the best-known comedy routines of all time in the world, and set the framework for many of their best-known comedy bits. While they had crossed paths a few times prior, the two comedians first worked together in 1935 at the Eltinge Burlesque Theater on 42nd Street in New York City, which"
"Oropax Oropax is a comedy duo from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. The two brothers Volker and Thomas Martins founded it in October 1983 “at 20:31” and in a spontaneous mood. The Martins brothers are also holders of a Guinness record, because they possess the world’s greatest collection of chewing gums. In 1992, the Duo seriously entered the show-business. They have described their performancesrogramme as “surprisingly senseless”. They perform using rapid speech and include 'rough humour' and sometimes film clips. The characters played by Oropax are e.g. “Mister Pinski” (“Herr Pinski”) or the “monk“ (Mönch), who wears an advent wreath on"
"Hotel"" (2012) and ""The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"" (2015) with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. British comedy films British Comedy films are Comedy films produced in UK. In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s. British comedy films are numerous, but among the most notable are the Ealing comedies, the 1950s work of the Boulting Brothers, and innumerable popular comedy series including the St Trinian's films, the ""Doctor"" series, and the long-running Carry On films. Some of the best known British film comedy stars include Will Hay, George Formby, Norman Wisdom, Alec"
"Waen Shepherd Waen Shepherd (born 23 October 1971) is an English composer, actor and comedian. Originally from Yorkshire, England, he now lives in London. Following his days as a stand-up poet and fringe actor, Shepherd started out performing bizarre experimental monologues at the early ""Cluub Zarathustra"", touring with spoof techno band and Edinburgh sell-out The Pod with fellow comedian/musicians Tim Hope and Julian Barratt. He hosted the underground cabaret ""Gritty Fingers"" and smashed up Cornish pasties in the guise of ranting Northern madman William Whicker. He graduated from Oxford University in 1993, with a degree in Philosophy and Psychology. He"
"together, the comedy ""Wild and Wonderful"" (1964). His focus remained on comedies: ""Goodbye Charlie"" (1964), with Debbie Reynolds; ""Sex and the Single Girl"" (1964), with Natalie Wood; ""The Great Race"" (1965), with Wood and Lemmon for Blake Edwards — the most expensive comedy film up till that time, but popular; ""Boeing Boeing"" (1965) a sex farce with Jerry Lewis; ""Not with My Wife, You Don't!"" (1966) with George C. Scott; ""Drop Dead Darling"" (1966), a British comedy; ""Don't Make Waves"" (1967), a satire of beach life from director Alexander Mackendrick, with Claudia Cardinale; and ""On My Way to the Crusades,"
"Abbott and Costello Go to Mars Abbott and Costello Go to Mars is a 1953 American science fiction comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Howard Christie, directed by Charles Lamont, that stars the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The film's storyline concerns the misadventures of Lester and Orville who accidentally find themselves aboard a rocketship bound for Mars, or so they think. Instead, they wind up landing at the New Orleans Mardi Gras thinking they have landed on the Red Planet. The pair are forced by bank robbers Mugsy and Harry to fly to the planet Venus, where they"
"One Way Out (film) One Way Out is a 1955 British crime drama film directed by Francis Searle and starring Jill Adams, Eddie Byrne, Lyndon Brook, John Chandos and Arthur Lowe. The art direction was by William Kellner. This second feature was released in the UK as the supporting film to the Norman Wisdom comedy ""Man of the Moment"". Superintendent Harcourt is on the verge of retiring from the police force and in his final case, seeks to put away Danvers, a ruthless fence. Danvers however, tries to buy off Harcourt, and when this fails, attempts to implicate the Superintendent's"
"filmmakers Payman Benz, Peter Atencio, and Tyler Gillett. The Midnight Show The Midnight Show is a Los Angeles-based sketch comedy group which performs monthly at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Founded in 2008, the show owes its notoriety not only to production of several viral and mature-themed internet videos on Funny or Die and YouTube (including ""Twilight ... with Cheeseburgers,"" ""Drive Recklessly,"" ""Car Ad with Andy Richter,"" ""Immortal Dog"" and ""Slider,"" starring Dax Shepard), but also to the fact that the show has functioned as a feeder of talent to the cast and writing staff of ""Saturday Night Live"". The"
"of their memorable tit-for-tat sequences. Unlike the usual villains in Laurel and Hardy films, who were big and burly, Charlie Hall (billed as ""Charley"" Hall in the Roach comedies) was of short stature, standing 5 ft 5 in tall. His height and slight English accent allowed him to be convincingly cast as a college student, despite being 40 years old, in Laurel and Hardy's ""A Chump at Oxford"". Hall almost never played starring roles; the exception was in 1941, when he was teamed with character comedian Frank Faylen by Monogram Pictures. Hall continued to play bits and supporting roles in"