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Michael T. Scott

Michael T. Scott is an American comedy writer, animation director and creator of the Happy Fatties online cartoon series, which has been featured on several notable web video sites including, YouTube, Dailymotion, Yahoo! Video, Openfilm, Animation World Network, Crackle, Aniboom, Funny or Die and Newgrounds.

Simon Dodd

Simon Dodd (born 7 June 1959) is an Australian comedy writer and the recipient of ten Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Awards as part of the writing team behind such successful TV series as Good News Week and The Glass House.

The 99p Challenge

The show is presented by Sue Perkins and features a selection of regular panelists such as Armando Iannucci and regular writers Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, Jon Holmes and Tony Roche.

The Worst Date Ever

The Worst Date Ever or How it Took a Comedy Writer to Expose Africa's Secret War is a memoir written by the British comedy writer Jane Bussmann.

Tracey Wigfield

Tracey Wigfield (born 1983) is an American comedy writer who won an Emmy Award in 2013 for her work on 30 Rock.


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Allardice

James B. Allardice (1919—1966), an American television comedy writer

Bernard and the Genie

Written by comedy writer Richard Curtis, this comic fantasy takes its inspiration from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights and follows Alan Cumming as art dealer Bernard Bottle who is not having a good day.

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell

Charlie Brooker, the British comedy writer, grew up in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell.

Colom Keating

Colom L. Keating is an American actor, author, comedy writer, and creator of the radio personality Mr. Manly.

Deon Cole's Black Box

The series features Deon Cole (stand-up comic and comedy writer) as he provides his commentary on videos found via the internet and television.

Dioscorus of Aphrodito

Important fragments of Athenian Comedy, both Old and New, were discovered among these papyri, including fragments of the famous comedy writer Menander.

Eat, Pray, Love

Andrew Gottlieb, an American comedy writer and producer, wrote a parody of Gilbert's Book, titled Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man's Search for Anything Across Ireland, Vegas and Thailand.

Eleanor Flexner

Plays evaluated in American Playwrights are by dramatists Sidney Howard, S.N. Behrman, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, by comedy writer George S. Kaufman (variously collaborating with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Herman Mankiewicz, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Dietz, Katherine Dayton, and others), and by comedy writers George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, and Robert E. Sherwood.

Eliyahu Federman

Federman is also the nephew of the famous American comedian, actor, author, and comedy writer Wayne Federman.

Elizabeth Laime

Elizabeth Laime is a comedy writer and host of the podcast Totally Laime on the Earwolf Network.

Eric Chappell

Eric Chappell (born 1933, Grantham, Lincolnshire) is an English comedy writer who wrote and co-wrote a number of the UK's biggest sitcom hits during the 1970s, '80s, and '90s.

Holoubek

Todd Holoubek (born 1969), American film and television actor, comedian, and sketch-comedy writer

Ian Black

Michael Ian Black (born 1971), American actor, comedian and comedy writer

Jack Mendelsohn

An Emmy-nominated television comedy writer and story editor, he has numerous credits as a TV scripter, including Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Three's Company, The Carol Burnett Show and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Jacqueline Pillon

Other roles include Jane Doe, Crossed Over, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, and Gilda Radner: It's Always Something, as comedy writer Anne Beatts.

Jamy Ian Swiss

He also worked as a comedy writer and chief magic consultant for Penn & Teller on their television program, Sin City Spectacular.

Knut Kleve

These efforts have resulted in restoration of works by Lucretius and Ennius, and relicts of works by ancient comedy writer Caecilius Statius.

Louis M. Heyward

Born in New York City, he served in the United States Air Force before becoming a full-time comedy writer, providing scripts for eight seasons (1950–1958) of The Garry Moore Show.

Matt Forde

Matt Forde is a Nottingham-born comedian, comedy writer, radio presenter and former political advisor for the Labour party.

Michael Petroni

Petroni worked in the early 1990s as a comedy writer and performer on Australian television, and appeared as "Psycho Bob", an American serial killer character, in The Big Gig and DAAS Kapital (with the Doug Anthony All Stars).

Mick Bunnage

Mick Bunnage (born 21 December 1958) is a cartoonist, journalist, and comedy writer and was formerly the bass guitarist of The Deep Freeze Mice.

Pieter Cornelis Boutens

After finishing the Gymnasium Middelburg, he began to study classical languages in 1890 at the University of Utrecht, and graduated in 1899 on a study of the Greek comedy writer Aristophanes.

Selma Diamond

Bob Schiller, who had also written for Duffy's Tavern and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, told author Jordan R. Young (for The Laugh Crafters), "The jury is still out on whether Selma was a comedy writer. She was really a very interesting character---salty, and she was---exactly what you saw on camera is what she was."

The Duck Factory

Other Duck Factory employees seen regularly on the show were man-of-a-thousand-cartoon voices Wally Wooster (played by real-life cartoon voice artist Don Messick); comedy writer Marty Fenneman (played by real-life comedy writer Jay Tarses); artists Brooks Carmichael and Roland Culp, editor Andrea Lewin, and business manager Aggie Aylesworth.

The New Bill Cosby Show

Cosby's supporting cast was biracial, highlighted by Foster Brooks of "funny-drunk" routine fame and also included performer Lola Falana, who additionally served as the show's announcer, and other persons previously best known as comedy writers, including Ronny Graham and Pat McCormick.

Victoria Pile

Victoria Pile, also known as Vicky Pile, is a British comedy writer, director and producer, most noted as the creator of two Channel 4 comedy programmes, the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing.