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November 7 - Sir Richard Steele's "sentimental comedy" The Conscious Lovers (loosely based on Terence) opens at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London with an initial run of eighteen consecutive nights.
Ask Father is a short, 13-minute, slapstick-style comedy made by Harold Lloyd in 1919 before he got into his classic full-length feature films.
The plot is inspired from Harold Ramis directed classic black comedy Analyze This (1999) with Robert De Niro playing a mafia don who due to frequent bouts of anxiety attacks gets treated by a famous psychiatrist enacted by the great comedy actor Billy Crystal.
Billee Taylor, or The Reward of Virtue is "a nautical comedy opera" by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens.
Producer Ivan Tors filmed the comedy at his Miami studios with cameos provided by Dean Martin (Columbia's Matt Helm), Flipper, director Andrew Marton as himself, and a Cary Grant impersonator played by Ray Anthony.
Brain Scan's first published material was the three issue mini-series Touch of Death, followed by Civil Wardrobe from Rich Johnston, the horror one-shot Fiendish Fables and the six issues series One Last Song.
The Chevron Cars television ads have been parodied in several television shows, including Robot Chicken, the animated comedy Family Guy (episode "Deep Throats"), and a MADtv sketch in which one of the cars gets fitted with a bomb and explodes after asking questions about the ticking.
As comedy specialists, the Christie Film Company debuted comedy actors Harold Lloyd, Fatty Arbuckle, Anita Garvin and black actor Spencer Williams, later known for his portrayal of Andy Brown in the Amos & Andy" CBS Television series.
The first moving picture shown at the theater was in November 1929, Harold Lloyd’s “Welcome Danger.” It was originally a silent film but at its preview it was eclipsed by a one-reel comedy with sound.
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However, a wave of or-suffixed action/horror Hollywood blockbusters and B-movies spread in France in the 1980s including Exterminator, Terminator, and Predator.
In December 2011, he directed the first English language production of "Shakespeare: a comedy in ten scenes, both serious and tragic" (by the Azerbajiani playwright Elchin Afandiyev).
He began hosting shows at the International Comedy Cellar - a venue set up by Irish comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Kevin Gildea and Barry Murphy.
In 1957, he helped found Seven Arts Productions and played an important role in the financing of the first horror film from Hammer Film Productions, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).
Montagu's reputation in comedy character parts was enhanced by her film performance alongside Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones's Diary as Perpetua, Bridget's unpleasant colleague.
By 1896 though, he was appearing on stage at the Casino Theatre performing in The Gold Bug, a burlesque musical comedy written by Glen MacDonough with music from Victor Herbert.
Freddie acted in films including the 1995 comedy Funny Bones and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004.
Future Cops, a 1993 Hong Kong action-comedy film loosely based on the Street Fighter video game franchise.
Films like Playing the Ponies, An Ache in Every Stake, Sock-a-Bye Baby, and I Can Hardly Wait are finer examples of Curly preparing food and creating comedy genius with little effort.
Two more sequels to Los Extermineitors followed, Extermineitors III: La gran pelea final and Extermineitors IV: Como hermanos gemelos, whose central argument was largely a parody of the classic Schwarzenegger/DeVito comedy Twins.
Invisible Strangler is a 1976 American horror film directed by John Florea, also known as The Astral Fiend (American alternative title), starring Robert Foxworth and Stefanie Powers.
In the summer of 2005, Janice discovers, to her horror, that she has nits.
Jay Davis is an American actor, stand-up comedian and comedy promoter/producer who garnered nationwide attention after appearing in Dane Cook's Tourgasm, a 30-day cross-country-tour-turned-reality-show which also included Cook, Gary Gulman and Robert Kelly, and was given a 8-episode run on HBO.
Mooney, along with John Milhiser, Michael Patrick O'Brien, Noël Wells, Brooks Wheelan, and his comedy partner and friend, Beck Bennett, joined the thirty-ninth season of Saturday Night Live to fill the void left by the recent departures of Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Jason Sudeikis.
Although most scholars admit that an earlier version by an unknown author already existed, the first known edition is credited to be the Comedy published in Burgos by printer Fadrique Aleman in 1499 with the title Comedia de Calisto y Melibea (Comedy of Calisto and Melibea).
At Oxford, Lee and Herring performed in a regular comedy revue called The Seven Raymonds, which also included the material and performance of Emma Kennedy, Michael Cosgrave and Tim Richardson.
In 2013, Stafford created her own web comedy series, The Stafford Project.
Parallel to Jane's story is the life of Akiko Ueno, a former manga artist who specialized in horror scenes and is reluctantly married to a man working for BEEF-EX.
At the time of the song's release, the 3-D process had made a short comeback through horror films like Friday the 13th Part III and Jaws 3-D.
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford is a 1931 crime / romantic comedy film starring William Haines as a con artist and Jimmy Durante as his pickpocket buddy.
Comedian Christopher Titus sarcastically referenced the song in his 2001 comedy special Norman Rockwell is Bleeding when describing an event from his youth in which he was on drugs and Licensed to Ill was playing "at a soothing billion-and-five decibels".
William Shatner's performance in the original Star Trek series has been frequently parodied across numerous comedy television shows.
Hence he never attained to that perfect idiomatic purity of style, which was the special glory of the early writers of comedy, Naevius and Plautus.
White has appeared in various independent films, including Red Letters (opposite Peter Coyote) and the cult horror Blood Dolls.
Shortly after, Price made his first appearance on the comedy scene at Liverpool's 'The Shakespeare', working at various venues which include The Palladium and the QE2.
He has also produced images for film publicity, creating the movie posters for The Sword and The Sorceror and Alligator, contributed during the early 1980s to television shows including BBC comedy The Two Ronnies Show and the BBC's '80s sci-fi adaptation of The Tripods, and has produced cover illustrations for video game publishers such as US Gold, Psygnosis and Virgin Interactive.
Querolus (‘The Complainer’) or Aulularia (‘The Pot’) is an anonymous Latin comedy from late antiquity, the only Latin drama to survive from this period and the only ancient Latin comedy outside the works of Plautus and Terence.
Quick Gun Murugun is a 2009 Indian comedy film directed by Shashanka Ghosh and written by Rajesh Devraj.
With Tony Hilton, he co-wrote the screenplay for the British comedy film What a Carve Up! (1961), which features Sid James and Kenneth Connor.
As well as achieving his sporting career and his turbulent personal life, Bruch also acted in light-entertainment films, debuting in the Italian action comedy film Anche gli angeli tirano di destro and appearing in a minor role in the film version of Ronia the Robber's Daughter.
On the tours for the Carnival of Chaos album, she danced to the song "Sammy," because "Horror of Yig" often followed the Slymenstra-Techno wedding section, which required at least two costume changes for Stampe; as such, the fire dance was set to "Sammy," which required none.
Soldier in the Rain is a 1963 American comedy-drama film starring Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen.
In the times of great horror and supply-shortages inflicted by the 1971 Turkish coup d'état, the inventor Şafak Dilken, who was working at the most famous baklava producer in Istanbul, used milk instead of sorbet, and hazelnuts instead of pistachios and came up with a new dessert.
Take The Plunge was an early evening game show that was produced by Thames Television and aired on the ITV network for one series in 1989, the programme was hosted by comedy actress Su Pollard.
Sturges directed only one more film in his life, the 1955 French comedy Les carnets du Major Thompson (released in the U.S. as The French, They Are a Funny Race).
He has also written for a number of comedies which include, the "Chris Rock Show", "Late Night With Conan O'Brien", "MADtv", "The George Lopez Show", "Weekends at the DL", and for the documentary "P.Diddy present the Bad Boys of Comedy".
In June 2000 Former Miss America Lee Meriwether starred with Bridget Hanley in the world premiere of Eugene Pack's "Elinor Adjusting" at Theatre West in L.A. The comedy ran for a four-week run at Theatre West where Hanley portrayed Elinor, a widow who finds herself without a home or a business after her husband dies.
Twisted Issues is a 1988 splatter film billed as a 'psycho-punk splatter-comedy,' It featured Gainesville, Florida punk bands such as Psychic Violents, Young Pioneers, Mutley Chix, Doldrums, Just Demi-gods, Cindy Brady's Lisp, Officer Friendly, and the Smegmas, as well as local speed metal band Hellwitch avante gard incidental music by The Bill Perry Orchestra.
Whole Lotta Sole (known as Stand Off in North America) is a 2012 independent comedy film written and directed by Terry George and starring Brendan Fraser, David O'Hara, Colm Meaney, Yaya DaCosta and Martin McCann.
Lawrence Journal-World called the film "a delightful and hilarious comedy of married life".
Bollywood Times broadcasts Bollywood films encompassing a variety of genres including action, comedy, horror, and crime.
In 2007, Schaffer's comedy/horror screenplay Doghouse was optioned by Carnaby International, to be directed by Jake West.
In 2012, Speleers was part of the comedy horror film Love Bite, in the lead role of Jamie, with Jessica Szohr and Timothy Spall.
In summer of 2006, Kalangis directed and wrote “The Mad”, an action-comedy horror feature film starring Billy Zane.
Her next two films were Tamil projects, the comedy horror Kanchana and the Venkat Prabhu-directed action thriller Mankatha, starring Ajith Kumar.
:Deadly Cinema is a comedy horror series about the adventures of host Jami Deadly, who lives in an unknown cemetery along with her neighborhood friends.
Slime City Massacre is a 2010 comedy-horror sequel film directed by Greg Lamberson and starring Jennifer Bihl, Kealan Patrick Burke, Debbie Rochon and Robert Sabin.
The Headless Ghost is an 1959 British comedy horror film directed by Peter Graham Scott.