A few prime-time animated comedies, notably The Flintstones, The Simpsons, Family Guy, successfully mixed attributes of traditional cartoons and sitcoms.
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Sketch comedy was pioneered by Sid Caesar, whose Your Show of Shows debuted in 1950 and established many conventions of the genre.
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Danger! 50,000 Volts! - Comedy survival series in which Nick Frost met up with experts in different fields of survival and asked questions on what to do in highly unlikely situations involving danger.
In 1966, Edmiston had a recurring role as Regan in the short-lived ABC comedy western series, The Rounders with co-stars Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, and Chill Wills.
Absolutely Productions is a television production company formed in 1988 by Morwenna Banks, Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter, Pete Baikie, John Sparkes and Gordon Kennedy, all of whom were the cast of British television comedy sketch show AbsoluTEly.
James B. Allardice (1919—1966), an American television comedy writer
The thirteenth episode of the fourth season of the NBC television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 71st episode of the series overall, is named "Anna Howard Shaw Day".
She started her acting career in 1945, and is probably best known for her role as Valborg Jensen in the Olsenbanden movies, as Marve Fleksnes' mother on the long-running Norwegian television comedy Fleksnes Fataliteter and as the janitor's wife in the comedy film Skulle det dukke opp flere lik, er det bare å ringe (based on the play BusyBody by Jack Popplewell).
After a long while, she came-back to television in 1992 and gave matchless performance in Nadan Nadia, a Pakistan television comedy play by Anwar Maqsood.
Bibin svijet (Biba's World), Croatian television comedy series
Bike Squad is a 2008 English television comedy film about a team of bicycle-mounted police.
The station was used in the Australian television comedy series Kath & Kim in episode two of series four, as the location of a Gloria Jean's coffee cart grand opening party.
The most famous fictional examples are perhaps Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Brynne 'Shut Up' Williams, portrayed by Windsor Davies in the 1970s sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Company Sergeant Major Percival Bullimore and Company Sergeant Major Claude Snudge played by William Hartnell and Bill Fraser, respectively, in the 1958-63, Granada television comedy series, The Army Game.
The song was originally written by Jim Steinman, Tony Hendra and Sean Kelly (and sung by Michael Simmons) for the short-lived television comedy series, Delta House.
In 1981, Dolman asked cabinet member Til Gardeniers in writing, if the "original was true, that the minister wanted to distribute fines" following possible surreptitious advertising made by the television comedy duo, Van Kooten en De Bie in their alter egos, Jacobse and Van Es.
Esti HaMekho'eret is an Israeli television comedy-drama series starring Riki Blich.
:For the American television comedy, see Even Stevens.
Hot Metal, a British television comedy series set in a newspaper office
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.
She is best known as the creator of the television comedy-drama series Being Erica and Dark Oracle.
Joann Condon (born 1970) is a British actress of stage and screen, best known for her role as Pat, a member of the Fat Fighters group in the BBC television comedy Little Britain, written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
From the late 1960s, Jonathan Lynn was appearing in and writing television sitcoms, including the television comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Tony Buffery.
Flores contributions include actress, production designer, set designer, and producer for Hollywood films and television programs, including the television comedy series, “The Playbook”.
Lawrence Leung's Unbelievable is a six-part Australian television comedy series, starring and primarily written by Melbourne comedian Lawrence Leung and produced by Unbelievable Productions.
Dymond has an occasional recurring role in the television comedy series Mrs. Brown's Boys as Mick, the on-off boyfriend of Cathy Brown.
On television, in Love Soup, a British television comedy-drama produced by BBC Television and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005, Michael Landes was the male lead as Gil Raymond in Series 1.
In most recent years Jann has directed episodes of many television comedy programs such as Community, Childrens Hospital, Happy Endings, Friends with Benefits, Suburgatory, Notes from the Underbelly, Reaper, Wedding Band, Emily's Reasons Why Not, and Flight of the Conchords.
Although it was written for an audience familiar with the procedures of the University of Cambridge at the turn of the twentieth century, Microcosmographia Academica could apply to any political system and is reminiscent of the British television comedy Yes Minister; a portion of the dialogue in one episode of that programme, "Doing the Honours", closely follows Cornford's text.
Mom P.I. is a 1990-92 Canadian television comedy-drama series starring Rosemary Dunsmore, Stuart Margolin, Emily Perkins, and Shane Meier.
Nowadays, Moraleja de Enmedio is known as being the town where the television comedy Aquí no hay quien viva was recorded.
During the early 1990s, Biscoe was parodied by Adelaide comedian Glynn Nicholas who played Paté Biscuit on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television comedy show, The Big Gig.
Filipidis is currently starred in the television comedy series Peninda-Peninda (50-50) in Mega Channel.
The Red Green Show (1991—2006), a Canadian television comedy
He was next seen in the 2002 television comedy-drama The Book Group playing a disabled personal trainer, for which he won a Scottish BAFTA award for the best television performance of 2002.
"Search Committee" is the hour-long finale of the seventh season of the American television comedy series The Office.
My Good Woman in 1972 was a husband-and-wife television comedy series which ran until 1974 with Leslie Crowther.
For example, he claims that a television comedy sketch featuring himself, Adrián García and Marcos Betancourt, all stammerers, would be four hours long.
This movie is similar to the 1971 film And Now For Something Completely Different which was a film spinoff from the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring favourite sketches from the first two seasons.
The Chimes was used to film scenes for the Channel 4 television comedy The Inbetweeners, offering itself as a shooting location on just three days' notice after another shopping centre withdrew.
The Disorderly Room was a very early British television comedy production, written by Eric Blore and starring Tommy Handley.
In the second season of the television comedy 30 Rock, in the episode "Sandwich Day", Jack Donaghy reads an excerpt of this book to GE head Don Geiss while he is in a diabetic coma, in hopes of waking him.
The Chaser's War on Everything or simply The War, an Australian television comedy series
As in the case of the radio comedy programme I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, and the television comedy programmes At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not Adjust Your Set and Broaden Your Mind, Twice a Fortnight was an excellent training ground, in both writing and acting, for the future stars of both Monty Python and The Goodies, as well as for the future co-writer of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.
Charles later spoofed this double standard on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live in 1977.
Wood and Walters is a British television comedy sketch show starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood for Granada Television and written entirely by Wood.