Friday 12 December 2008

A-Z of comedy (or as close to Z as possible)


A - Ab Fab - Hit sitcom starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley
B - Bill Bailey - A self confessed hippy comic
C - Charlie Chaplin - One of the defining faces of British comedy
D - Dara O' Briain - Irish comic and host of Mock the Week
E - Extras - Ricky Gervais' hit comedy starring anyone and everyone
F - Friends - Surely you don't need info about this one
G - Goodness Gracious Me - Possibly the first and most successful Asian sitcom
H - Have I Got News For You - BBC panel show using the news for comedy
I - I'm Alan Partridge - Steve Coogan plays the failed television presenter
J - Jeeves and Wooster - Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry do PG Wodehouse
K - Kath and Kim - Australian comedy
L - Life of Brian - The Python's most famous work
M - Michael McIntyre - Fantastically British middle class comedian
N - Nighty Night - Sitcom about a 27 year-old woman with a lust for life
O - Only Fools and Horses - DelBoy and Rodney, need I say more
P - Porridge - Prison based BBC sitcom starring Ronnie Barker
Q - QI - Panel show presented by Stephen Fry with regular Alan Davies
R - Ricky Gervais - Award winning creator of The Office and Extras
S - The Simpsons - Matt Groening's famous yellow family
T - The Two Ronnies - Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett's favourite moments
U -
V - Vicar of Dibley - Dawn French's famous fat vicar Geraldin Grager
W - Whose line is it anyway? - Improvised comedy show in the USA and UK
X -
Y - The Young Ones - Lives up to the stereotype that students are disgusting
Z - Zoolander - A model is brainwashed to kill the president of Malaysia

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