Other winners included Glee's Ryan Murphy TV comedy, The New Normal, and former president Bill Clinton.
Adam Sandler, Richard Belzer and others dropped by in later years to host comedy nights.
It was adapted for the cinema in a 1949 Ealing comedy starring Basil Radford.
Their hosts are comedy duo Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate, fitting emcees for several reasons.
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Concerts, theater, community festivals, comedy, and other social activities are best enjoyed with company.
Silverman's NBC will also bring Jerry Seinfeld back to its Thursday night comedy block.
Now the retailer is banking on the comedy trio to improve its flagging fortunes.
"This is the only literary prize that actively seeks out and rewards comedy, " said Jacobson.
Popular actress had hit romantic comedy last year with My Last Star, which she also produced.
It was won by Julia Davis for the period comedy Hunderby, in which she also starred.
In America, for instance, there are opportunities galore for funny people--standup comedy, late-night talk shows, etc.
Indeed the greatest service it has done is not to diplomacy, but to comedy.
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The lineup also includes EPIX original programming, featuring marquee concert, comedy, and sporting events.
They are also an endless stream of entertainment and late night comedy punch lines.
Comedy stars Dawn French and Lenny Henry have divorced on the grounds of his "unreasonable behaviour".
This controversy harkened back to the comedy boom bestowed upon us by Bill Clinton's sex scandal.
"I've been working half my life or more at this (comedy) thing, " Maron says.
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Like comedy, in this election the most socially-driven in history timing will be everything.
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The late-eighties TV series is rebooted with jolts of sentiment, personal discovery, and wild comedy.
In comedy, the analysis of death, or near-death, experiences is a clear, unsentimental process.
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Charles Busch's comedy about an anxiety-riddled Manhattan matron.
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The incident inspired Compton Mackenzie's book Whisky Galore and an Ealing comedy of the same name.
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The film turns into a kind of stuttering romantic comedy, but the rhythms are off.
Liedman and Slate star in the hilarious Bestie x Bestie comedy blog on Vimeo.
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Yet late-night comedy does more than simply induce apathy and dumb down our discourse.
He's got his own group of writers from Comedy Central furiously working on his material.
There are upcoming events that offer some hope that we will emerge from the comedy doldrums.
This not an action picture, not a comedy, and that he's great in it.
To let off steam, she turns her real-life frustrations into laughs at a stand-up comedy club.
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