"success and only lasted a single series of seven episodes. Oh, Brother! Oh, Brother! is a British situation comedy show on BBC television starring Derek Nimmo, which was broadcast between 1968 and 1970. The series was set in a monastery, with Nimmo cast as the well-meaning but inept novice Brother Dominic. It was basically a successor to ""All Gas and Gaiters"", where Nimmo had played a very similar role, the main difference being that Brother Dominic was working-class, whereas Nimmo's previous character, Rev. Mervyn Noote, had been upper-class. ""Oh, Brother!"" was not quite as successful or as affectionately remembered as"
"comedies starring Derek Nimmo in similar bumbling clerical roles—(""Oh, Brother!"", ""Oh, Father!"" and ""Hell's Bells"")—but is regarded as the best, partly because of a strong supporting cast (particularly the experienced ""farceur"" Robertson Hare as the archdeacon) and partly because it included some elements of gentle satire. All 11 surviving episodes were released on DVD by DD Home Entertainment in 2004, originally accompanied by a detailed behind-the-scenes booklet, written by Andy Priestner in consultation with the show's writers, Edwin Apps and Pauline Devaney, but later released without. Cinema Club have since bought the DVD rights. Eight scripts of the lost episodes"
"their general incompetence. By the time the series finished, Nimmo was identified with the stereotype of a traditional British clergyman and he went on to play a bungling monk in another BBC clerical sitcom, ""Oh, Brother!"" and its sequel series ""Oh, Father!"" (now a Roman Catholic priest). Another sitcom in which he appeared in a starring role as a clergyman, many years later, was ""Hell's Bells"" (by now promoted to a dean). He also appeared as the Reverend Jonathan Green in a television production of ""Cluedo"". He became so well known for his clerical parody that, in the 1975 ""The"
"Peter Ustinov's Hercule Poirot) in ""Thirteen at Dinner"" (1985), ""Dead Man's Folly"" and ""Murder in Three Acts"" (both 1986). He has been called ""one of the finest upper-class-twits of his era"". In 2009 he appeared in an episode of ""Midsomer Murders"". He also worked in radio, where his credits included ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" and ""The Brightonomicon"". He also appeared in ""The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately"", playing characters with very bad foreign accents. Additionally, he stood in for Derek Nimmo in the role of the Bishop's Chaplain, the Reverend Mervyn Noote, in the second series of the"
"the movies ""Happy Gilmore"", ""Anger Management"", ""Little Nicky"", ""Daddy Day Care"", ""Good Boy!"" and ""Grandma's Boy"". In fall 2005, he appeared in an episode of ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", where he played himself (Season 5, Episode 4). Nealon had a recurring television role on the 2002-06 CBS comedy ""Still Standing"" playing Ted Halverson, the Millers' competitive and religious neighbor. He has also appeared as a patient in a mental institution on the first season of ""Monk"". ""Deja Vu"" is an episode of ""The Outer Limits"" television show. It first aired on 9 July 1999, during the fifth season. Nealon played Dr."
"19 episodes, only eight of which exist in the BBC archives. The comic potential in a monastery may have been rather limited, although it did benefit from a cast which included some experienced actors, particularly Nimmo himself and Felix Aylmer as Father Prior. A Region 2 DVD was released in 2004. ""Oh, Brother!"" was followed by a sequel ""Oh, Father!"" in 1973, also starring Nimmo and with the same writers. In this series, Dominic left the monastery and became a Roman Catholic priest. It had a supporting cast of Laurence Naismith, Pearl Hackney and David Kelly. This was not a"
"author. Under the pen-name Neil Boyd he wrote the ""Bless Me, Father"" novels from which the TV series was adapted. Bless Me, Father Bless Me, Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye, Patrick McAlinney, David Ryall, and Sheila Keith. It was aired on ITV from 1978 until 1981 and described the adventures of an Irish Catholic priest, Father Charles Duddleswell (Lowe) and his young curate (Abineri) in the fictional parish of St. Jude's in suburban London. Twenty-one episodes, written by Peter De Rosa (who had previously been a novice curate), were aired. De Rosa wrote"
"Derek Nimmo Derek Robert Nimmo (19 September 193024 February 1999) was an English character actor, producer and author. He was particularly associated with upper class ""silly-ass"" roles, and clerical roles. Nimmo was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and was educated at Booker Avenue Infants and Junior School as well as Quarry Bank High School and began his stage career at the Hippodrome Theatre in Bolton, Lancashire. It was during this time that he made a cameo appearance in the Beatles' film, ""A Hard Day's Night"" (in which he appeared as ""Leslie Jackson"", a magician with doves). He appeared in a number"
"to Eddie Murphy. Barnett was reportedly jealous and resentful of Murphy for several years, although in 1983 he told ""Jet magazine"", ""Now that I'm making it, I watch Saturday Night Live every Saturday."" Barnett went on to appear in film and on television. In the 1983 comedy film ""D.C. Cab"", he played the role of Tyrone, one of the main characters who begins and ends (after the credits) the movie. He had a recurring role on the hit 1980s TV series ""Miami Vice"" as Neville 'Noogie' Lamont. He appeared on ""Def Comedy Jam"" in 1993. Although the episode was not"
"Lord Have Mercy! Lord Have Mercy! is a Canadian television sitcom, produced by Leda Serene Films, first shown on Vision TV in 2003. It received further showings in Canada on Toronto One, APTN and Showcase later the same year. The series, one of the first television productions launched by Vision TV's multicultural television development fund, starred Arnold Pinnock as Dwight Gooding, an ambitious new youth pastor at Mt. Zion, a Caribbean-Canadian church. Other main characters were Dennis Hall as head pastor Cuthbert Stevens, Rachel Price as Gooding's wife Desirée, Leonie Forbes as pastoral assistant Hope McCauley, and Shawn Singleton and"
"Pam Herbert"", who use the catchphrase ""We are considerably richer than you"" (in an exaggerated West-Midlands accent), ""Tim Nice-But-Dim"", ""The Scousers"", ""Smashie and Nicey, Wayne and Waynetta Slob, Annoying Kid Brother"", who grew into ""Kevin the Teenager"", and two old-fashioned presenters, ""Mr Cholmondley-Warner and Grayson"". In 1991, Enfield played Dermot in the sitcom ""Men Behaving Badly"" along with Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash, originally on Thames Television. Enfield left after the first series, and was replaced in the second series by Neil Morrissey as Tony. Enfield is a professed fan of opera and fronted a Channel 4 documentary"
"by the underground cartoonists Dave Sheridan and Fred Schrier, appearing in person in the early 1970s on ""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"" and later in the 1975 ""Smothers Brothers"" TV show. His most prominent appearances were on ""Saturday Night Live"" in the late 1970s, during which time Novello was also a writer for the show. In the late 1970s, Father Guido Sarducci was featured on radio commercials for ""High Times"" magazine where he offered to perform blessings for a fee. On his first appearance on ""Saturday Night Live"", a skit called ""How to Pay for Your Sins"" on a 1978 episode"
"to Donald Pleasence's Launcelot Gobbo) in ""The Merchant of Venice"", Edward IV (brother to Marius Goring's Richard III), Baptista in ""The Taming of the Shrew"" and Gloucester in ""King Lear"". An early TV role was portraying a vicar in the 1958/59 BBC series ""Quatermass and the Pit"". He appeared as Professor Rushton in a one-off 1967 edition (""Mission Highly Improbable"") of ""The Avengers"" and as the Reverend Simon Blanding in a one-off 1967 edition (""Dead Man's Shoes"") of ""Man in a Suitcase"". Other screen appearances include the 1960s TV shows ""Softly, Softly"" and ""Danger Man"". He also appeared in one"
"nurse Theodore Horstmann in the 1981 NBC-TV series ""Nero Wolfe"", starring William Conrad in the title role. In most film and TV adaptations of Nero Wolfe mysteries, before and since, Horstmann has been a very minor character, but Coote's Horstmann got considerable screen time in the series. The veteran British character actor died in his sleep at the New York Athletic Club in November 1982, at the age of 73. Coote was a close friend of actor David Niven, sharing a house with Niven for a time in the late 1930s and living in a flat over Niven's garage for"
"Goodies'"" episode ""Wacky Wales"", a ""team of Derek Nimmos"" played in a spoof ""Ecclesiastical Rugby Sevens"" competition. In 1966, he appeared in the second series of ""The Bed-Sit Girl"". Derek Nimmo appeared on stage in many West End plays and starred in the musical ""Charlie Girl"", which contained a scene specially written to allow him to perform his party trick of wiggling his toes. He also became a regular panelist on the popular BBC radio show ""Just a Minute"", and had a chat show on BBC Television, ""If It's Saturday, It Must Be Nimmo"", from 24 October to 19 December"
"(Rudolph Walker) and ""Rising Damp"" (Don Warrington) when their role was often to act simply as either the butt of, or foil to, racist jokes made by White characters. The most influential programme in moving away from this formula was the 1989–94 Channel Four barbershop sitcom ""Desmond's"", starring Norman Beaton and Carmen Munroe. One of the biggest African-Caribbean names in comedy is Lenny Henry, who began his career as a stand-up comedian but whose television sketch shows, where he often caricatured Caribbean émigrés, made him popular enough to headline numerous primetime comedy shows from, for instance, ""Lenny Henry"" in 1984"
"teenager Sam. Noi also had a recurring role in ""Emmerdale"" as Ryan Hayworth during 2007 and 2008. In 2007, Noi joined BBC school drama ""Waterloo Road"", playing a character named Noel Parkin in the 8th episode of Series 2, and later returned in 2009 to play bad boy Earl Kelly, who in the eighth episode of the series fatally shot his girlfriend Maxine Barlow (played by Ellie Paskell). He also starred in a Liverpool Gangster film ""My Kingdom"". He made an appearance in the Channel 4 series ""Shameless"" Series 4 episode 5 as Debbie's Christian boyfriend, Luke Newman. As well"
"Norman Beaton Norman Lugard Beaton (31 October 1934 – 13 December 1994) was a Guyanese actor long resident in the United Kingdom. He became best known for his role as Desmond Ambrose in the Channel Four television comedy series ""Desmond's"". Beaton was born in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), and attended Queen's College until he was expelled for truancy and bad grades. He was given a second chance at the Government Teachers' Training College and graduated with distinction. Beaton taught and played with the calypso band The Four Bees before leaving Guyana for London in 1960. Beaton developed a parallel"
"Pilkington on a journey following Marco Polo's route from Italy to China. In November 2011, Gervais filmed in London a 35-minute pilot episode for a potential comedy-drama series called ""Derek"", which aired on Channel 4 on 12 April 2012. The pilot is solely written and directed by Gervais and features him in the title role of Derek Noakes, a 49-year-old retirement home worker, who ""loves animals, Rolf Harris, Jesus, ""Deal or No Deal"", ""Million Pound Drop"" and ""Britain's Got Talent"". The character first appeared in a 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe sketch as an aspiring comedian who loves animals and still"
"became famous for his appearances as Narrator Neville in the first season of the ABC's irreverent satire/comedy ""The Aunty Jack Show"". Derum appeared in a number of comedy and revue series including ""The Thursday Creek Mob"" (1969–70), ""The True Blue Show"" (1975), ""Doctor Down Under"" (1979) as ""Doctor Maurice Griffin"", and ""Ratbags"" (1982). He appeared in the final edition of ""The Mavis Bramston Show"" in 1975. He played B. A. Santamaria in the ABC miniseries ""True Believers"" (1987) and Francis James in ""The Gadfly"" (1990) and appeared in ""G.P."" and ""Mother and Son"" in the 1990s. For ABC Television, he"
"2011-2013, a New York City playwright and poet who frequently appears on the television show Oddities. Dominick Grimaldi is currently being played by Uncle Nino, a New York City celebrity who frequently appeared on ""Jersey Shore"", a reality TV Series. For the June 2012 production, Neil Gaiman appeared as Assistant Coroner and performed a duet of Makin' Whoopee with Amanda Palmer. Von Buhler, the coroner's office diorama, and the play's secret location were central to an episode of The Discovery Channel's reality television show Oddities. The episode titled ""A Gurney for Grandpa"" focuses on the televisions show's stars Mike Zohn"
"stars Dabney Coleman, Paul Cooper, Rosemary Alexander, and Lewis Arquette, with cameos by Paul Reubens and the band Devo (who play a Christian rock band named ""Dove""). It was directed by Rick Friedberg. ""Pray TV"" was picked up by Filmways Pictures in 1980 (under its original name, ""KGOD""). The film premiered on television instead of theatrically, and aired on Showtime in 1983 under its present title. Pray TV Pray TV (also known as KGOD) is a 1980 comedy film spoofing televangelism. Failing UHF TV station KRUD, Channel 17, is ""reborn"" as Christian television station KGOD. The new format is a"
"a comedy-thriller for BBC Two that premiered in autumn 2013. The series is co-produced by online television provider Hulu.com in the United States, where it premiered in November 2013. The first six-part series proved a critical and commercial success, and a similarly well-received two-part sequel was broadcast in December 2014. Baynton is also familiar as one of the stars of the hit children's television series ""Horrible Histories"", appearing over all five series as a singer, actor, and occasional writer. Other notable roles include the recurring character of Deano in ""Gavin & Stacey"" and co-starring as Chris in the Darren Boyd"
"comes upon Christopher Colt's sales satchel, abandoned in a room and covered with dust since the series had been cancelled the previous season. In 1958, series star Wayde Preston left the series because he claimed he was made to do stunts that required a stunt man. Preston was also reportedly unhappy with the show's low budget which caused other problems. Because of Preston's departure, producers were forced to air repeats of the series along with a few new episodes to complete the 1958-1959 season. In 1959, Donald May assumed the lead role as Sam Colt, Jr., the cousin of Christopher"
"- ""Gabriel's Fire"" (TV series) Bus Boy - The Great Waldo 1990 - ""Saved by the Bell"" - (TV series) Lt. Chet Adams - Zack's War 1990 - ""Fire Birds"" Dewar Proctor 1989 - ""Hunter"" - V series) Mitchell Chadwick - Investment in Death 1989 - ""Hell High"" Wide Receiver 1988 - ""Amen"" - (TV series) Young Groom – Wedding Bell Blues 1988 - ""School Daze"" Big Brother Dr. Feelgood 1988 - ""Bustin' Loose"" - (TV series) Arlando - Doo Wop 1987 - ""227"" - (TV series) Bailiff - The Handwriting on the Wall 1983 - ""Blue Skies Again"" Alvin"
"U.S. Embassy in Paris in 1945-46 he was honorably discharged with the rank of Major. After a short stint as a teacher, he returned to Cincinnati in 1947 and landed a job as overnight disc jockey at WLW-AM with his distinctive baritone voice. In 1948 Bill became Cincinnati’s first television star on WLWT-TV serving as an announcer, newscaster, and host of various shows. In 1951 Nimmo moved to New York and went to work for network television. He was probably best known for two roles. The first was “Bill the Bartender” on the ""Pabst Blue Ribbon Wednesday Night Fights"" (CBS),"
"Desmond's Desmond's is a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. With 71 episodes, ""Desmond's"" became Channel 4's longest running sitcom in terms of episodes. The first series was shot in 1988, with the first episode broadcast in January 1989. The show was made in and set in Peckham, London, and featured a predominantly black British Guyanese cast. Conceived and co-written by Trix Worrell, and produced by Charlie Hanson and Humphrey Barclay, this series starred Norman Beaton as barber Desmond Ambrose. Desmond's shop was a gathering place for an assortment of local characters. While the"
"of Worzel Gummidge. In a 1967 episode of the radio series ""Round the Horne"", Kenneth Williams in character as Rambling Syd Rumpo performed a parody version called ""Ganderpoke Bog"" (introduced as ""The Somerset Nog""), with the long list of people in the chorus being ""Len Possett, Tim Screevy, The Reverend Phipps, Peg Leg Loombucket, Solly Levy, Ginger Epstein, Able Seaman Trufitt, Scotch Lil, Messrs Cattermole, Mousehabit, Neapthigh and Trusspot (solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths), Father Thunderghast, Fat Alice, Con Mahoney, Yeti Rosencrantz, Foo Too Robinson and Uncle Ted Willis and all"". (Con Mahoney was at the time Head of the"
"and was raised Catholic. He graduated from St. Joseph High School in Trumbull, Connecticut, in 1971. Nealon graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing from Sacred Heart University (and worked in a variety of part-time jobs while doing stand-up comedy). Nealon then took some night courses at Fairfield University, where he became the starting quarterback for the school's football team. Nealon debuted on network television doing a stand-up routine for ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"" in 1984. On the September 24, 1985 nighttime syndicated episode of ""Sale of the Century"", Nealon can be seen onstage congratulating his friend Tim"
"shows such as ""Comedy Connections"", ""Casualty"", """" and ""Night Fever"". He has also appeared in at least one episode of CBBC's sitcom ""Kerching!"", playing Michael's father, Trevor and appeared as Lenny Bicknall in series 1 and 2 of ""M.I.High"", also on CBBC. He has also appeared in ""The Crouches"". On 8 November 2009, he made a brief appearance during BBC Two's coverage of the 2009 Valencian Moto Grand Prix. He appeared in the BBC One series ""Death in Paradise"" as policeman Dwayne Myers from its start until 2018, in 2014, he played Nigel Rogers in ""The Life of Rock with"
"Amen (TV series) Amen is an American sitcom produced by Carson Productions that aired on NBC from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, ""Amen"" stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s and early 1990s which featured predominantly black casts – others included ""The Cosby Show"", ""A Different World"", ""The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"", and ""227"". The series revolves around Ernest Frye, a widower deacon of the First Community Church of Philadelphia, who also works as a"
"Bless Me, Father Bless Me, Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye, Patrick McAlinney, David Ryall, and Sheila Keith. It was aired on ITV from 1978 until 1981 and described the adventures of an Irish Catholic priest, Father Charles Duddleswell (Lowe) and his young curate (Abineri) in the fictional parish of St. Jude's in suburban London. Twenty-one episodes, written by Peter De Rosa (who had previously been a novice curate), were aired. De Rosa wrote the books on which the series was based using the pseudonym of Neil Boyd which was also the name of"
"to drama. Carmen Munroe Carmen Munroe, (born 12 November 1932) is a British actress who was born in Berbice, British Guiana (now Guyana), and has been a resident of the UK since the early 1950s. Munroe made her West End stage debut in 1962 and has played an instrumental role in the development of black British theatre and representation on small screen. She has had high-profile roles on stage and television, perhaps best known from the British TV sitcom ""Desmond's"" as Shirley, wife of the eponymous barber played by Norman Beaton. Born Carmen Esme Steele in New Amsterdam, Berbice, British"