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  Comedy
British comedy British Comedy, known in many countries as Britcom, is a very particular type of actors and characters...
British Comedy Awards The British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the ITV1.
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 ipedia.com: British Comedy Awards Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.
The awards began in 1990, and are usuall...
The awards began in 1990, and are usually shown live on ITV1.
www.ipedia.com /british_comedy_awards.html   (200 words)

  
 comedy cv - the UK's largest collection of comedians biogs and photos
In 1991, Jack won the British Comedy Award for Best Stage Newcomer and following numerous guest TV appearances and a successful run of Edinburgh shows, he was nominated for the 1991 Perrier Award.
His impressive list of awards to-date include two at the 1995 British Comedy Awards; one Gold and two Silver Arrows for his now infamous 'widget'.
In 1991, Jack appeared in dramatic roles in an episode of the BBC1 drama The Ambassador, with Pauline Collins as well as the BBC1 drama Silent Witness with Amanda Burton.
www.comedycv.co.uk /jackdee   (563 words)

  
 Whitfield, June
June Whitfield is a durable comedy actor whose entire career has been spent providing excellent support to virtually every major British comedian on radio and television.
In the 1950s she became a radio favourite playing the perennially engaged "Eth" in the famous Jimmy Edwards comedy series Take It From Here, but her lasting stardom was due a to a remarkable run of television appearances supporting Britain's best loved comedians and her long-running sitcom series Terry and June.
She is not the only funny woman of British television to have had such a comedy-support career, but she is arguably the busiest.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/W/htmlW/whitfieldju/whitfieldju.htm   (639 words)

  
 Clive Anderson: A Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
While he was a lawyer he practiced warm up comedy and wrote comedy scripts.
In 1989 he was given his own talk show, "Clive Anderson Talks Back" which was changed to 'Clive Anderson Talk," and changed again to "Clive Anderson All Talk." In 1991 he was awarded the Comedy Presenter of the year by the British television industry.
In 19942 he won the Channel 4 presenter award from the British Comedy Awards.
www.geocities.com /gcrw_fans/clivebio.html   (204 words)

  
 The Ruby Griffith Award
At the time the award was open only to Theatre Alliance members and attracted 10 entrants in the first season.
With the start of the 1991/92 season, two new achievement awards were added; they are the Ruby Griffith Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Musical and the Ruby Griffith Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Non-Musical.
The two Outstanding Achievement Awards are plaques with the representation of the Lion and masks from the All-Round Excellency trophy.
www.rubygriffith.org   (486 words)

  
 EVENTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Winner of the Best Live Performer award for two years running at the London Comedy Festival, voted by the membership of Jongleurs, the largest chain of comedy clubs in Europe, John has become one of Britain's most in-demand comedy acts, a true comic and musical talent.
Comedy scholars, plus folk needing a right good laugh, can choose from a wide range of quality Moloney originals.
Trevor began his career at the Sydney Comedy Store in 1991, he received his first booking in just two months, his first television performance in six and capped off that first year by winning the Sydney Comic of the Year competition.
www.boxofficeme.com /event_92.htm   (1000 words)

  
 Comedy's Class Act   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Mr Bean is an unusual comedy in that it is quite possible to read at the same time as watching it and still get the general gist of what is going on.
As generous as he is to friends and fellow comedians who discount Mr Bean ''it is just not their cup of tea, it's just not their game and they don't enjoy it much'' Atkinson is clearly niggled a little by the news flout on the subject.
It all just becomes a little predictable and unchallenging.'' There is talk of a feature film, which he says will be set partly in America, where Bean is catching on, but there will almost certainly be no new TV episodes after the two he has just finished are shown.
www.rowanatkinson.org /articles/00082.htm   (1323 words)

  
 The Ellen DeGeneres Show - Ellen's Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In addition, DeGeneres was nominated for a 2004 MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance for her work in the film.
In 1997 DeGeneres was the recipient of the coveted Peabody Award as well as earning an Emmy for writing the critically acclaimed "Puppy Episode" when her character came out as a gay woman to a record 46 million viewers.
Every weekday, the British DJ can be seen playing tunes as Ellen DeGeneres dances her way to her chair after her monologue.
ellen.warnerbros.com /showinfo/bio.html   (890 words)

  
 MGPL Webrary® - Web Sites for Book Lovers
This non-profit writers' organization was founded in 1965 and presents the prestigious Nebula Awards in science fiction or fantasy for the best short story, novelette, novella, and novel of the year.
Awards are given for materials first published in the United States by a living author in hardcover, as paperback originals, or e-published by an e-publishing firm.
The PEN/Faulkner Award is one of the four major American prizes for fiction in the United States.
www.webrary.org /rs/rslinks.html   (3516 words)

  
 Audrey Hepburn Awards
A look at her Awards and nominations is all it takes to confirm Hepburn's talent as an actress.
She won the Academy Award for her first major role, in the 1953 romantic comedy "Roman Holiday" and in the same year, came the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award, Broadway's highest honor, for her performance in "Ondine".
Audrey Hepburn is one of the very few people who have won the major awards in the show business (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award).
www.audrey1.com /awards.html   (199 words)

  
 Timeline
NEH awards $1 million in emergency funding for museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions damaged by hurricanes in the Southeast and in Hawaii.
NEH awards sixty-one small grants for research in the archives of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere.
The first NEH Dissertation Grants are awarded to doctoral students in the humanities.
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As a result, in certain comedy venues comedians meet to discuss other shows, ticket sales, and where comedy is going while looking over the shoulder of the people they're talking to just in case a TV producer might be passing by.
Likewise, The Perrier Award, the prize for the best comedy/cabaret show, which, in the past was awarded to all sorts of comedy shows, is now assumed by performers to be only awarded to stand-ups.
Any fan of British comedy would be missing out on a great experience if they didn't include this CD in their collection.
www.etext.org /Zines/ASCII/BritComedy/britcomedy.digest.2-7   (7948 words)

  
 A Salute to Dave Allen
Then there are the skits (what he calls "quickies"), short comedy sketches performed by Dave and his ensemble cast of players.
It was also one of the few British comedy shows not only to have achieved worldwide sales but to be shown behind the Iron Curtain.
In 1991, Dave played a sell-out run at the Strand Theatre in the West End of London, and in 1992, a six-part series entitled Dave Allen which featured Dave in stand-up mode, was transmitted on the ITV network.
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 Saving Grace || Cast
Two-time Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn deftly mixes comedy and humanity in her portrait of Grace Trevethen, a middle-aged widow who blossoms when she is forced to grow an illicit garden.
He is best known by British audiences for his role in the BBC comedy series "Men Behaving Badly" for which he was awarded Best Comedy Actor at the British Comedy Awards PARTA and RTS.
British actress Phyllida Law stars as Margaret, a local village busy-body who is very curious about what's going on in the Grace Trevethen's hothouse.
www.finelinefeatures.com /sites/savinggrace/cast_flash.html   (1031 words)

  
 cake or death: an eddie izzard site :: the biography
As revenge on the teacher who always made him play the clarinet instead of Romeo, Eddie decided he would be famous and chose comedy as his path.
All of this paid off and he began to win a string of awards to decorate his bathroom: a Perrier Award nomination at the Edinburgh Festival and a Time Out Award in 1991.
This has proven to be a pivotal show for Eddie which brought his particular brand of stand up to a wider audience in the US and to this day, continues to do so.
www.auntiemomo.com /cakeordeath/themannew.html   (1141 words)

  
 Holland Park Online Cast Bios
Jennifer have gained great success in her involvement as both as a performer and writer of several comedy shows.
She was a daughter of British Military Major.
June married Timothy John Aitchison in 1955 with whom she got a daughter, Suzie Aitchison who today is a British Comedy actress.
abfabstuff.tripod.com /bios.html   (392 words)

  
 Clive Anderson - Speakers Biography - Celebrity Speakers International Limited   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
He developed his flair for comedy and performing when he studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge between 1972 and 1975.
Clive Anderson is not just known for comedy, he has presented several Documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4.
Clive Anderson was awarded the television industry’s ‘Comedy Presenter of the Year’ Award in 1991 and he won an award from the British Comedy Awards for the ‘Top Channel 4 Presenter’ in 1992.
www.speakers.co.uk /Retro/5293.htm   (306 words)

  
 Arthur C Clarke Awards
The Arthur C. Clarke Awards are for the best science fiction novel published in Britain during the previous calendar year.
The Arthur C Clarke Science Fiction Awards were created by Clarke and are awarded by a jury nominated by the Science Fiction Foundation, the British Science Fiction Association and the International Science Policy Foundation.
The Arthur C Clarke Award is given to the best science fiction novel whose British first edition was published during the previous calendar year.
www.literature-awards.com /arthur_c_clarke_awards.htm   (347 words)

  
 The TV Cream Guide to Television Presenters
Alright, the show was basically a rip-off of Letterman, but few did it with as much wit or charm as Jonathan, and various best-dressed awards, Radio 1 series and lager adverts followed.
Follow-up ONE HOUR WITH JONATHAN ROSS was an attempt to mix serious interviews with comedy (from a tyro Reeves and Mortimer), but it failed and the only bit anyone remembers was when he got handcuffed to his chair ("I'm gonna thump ya!").
But he did start fronting THE BRITISH COMEDY AWARDS in 1991, which is still the best thing he does on telly.
tv.cream.org /specialassignments/presenters/q.htm   (1934 words)

  
 CNN - 71st Annual Academy Awards
A comedy improbably set during one of mankind's darkest moments, it tells the story of a man who uses humor to try to get his family through the Holocaust.
His part as a defense attorney in "A Civil Action" is just the latest role in a film career that started with a part in 1962's "To Kill A Mockingbird," in which he played Gregory Peck's feeble-minded next-door neighbor.
Montenegro, born in 1929 as Arlete Pinheiro, has starred on the stage, in the movies and television, but this is her first Oscar nod.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/specials/1999/oscars/stars.html   (2260 words)

  
 FAQ
Red Dwarf is a British TV show that has been airing on the BBC since 1988.
It's a half-hour science fiction comedy that tells the story of the last living human being and his nonhuman companions in the distant future.
The International Emmys are awarded by the International Council of the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences.
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 Fine Line Features | Twelfth Night | Cast Biographies
His 1991 performance in "Shadowlands" was also nominated for an Olivier; for his work in the play's Broadway production, Hawthorne won both a Tony and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actor.
He starred in and co-wrote four series for the BBC's ground-breaking satire "Not the Nine O'Clock News" and won two British comedy awards for the series "Smith and Jones," and an Emmy for "Alas Smith and Jones," which he wrote with his co-star, Griff Rhys-Jones.
A leading performer in comedy, drama and musical theatre, she has also played leading roles at most of Britain's leading regional theatres.
www.finelinefeatures.com /twelfth/castbios.htm   (1266 words)

  
 R&M Awards
Channel X won its first BAFTA with this series for 'originality' and a British Comedy Award in 1993 for Best Comedy Series with The Smell Of Reeves and Mortimer on BBC2.
The year ended with Channel X producing the Shooting Stars Xmas Special which was watched by 4.7 million viewers and won the Silver Rose of Montreaux.
The company are at present developing a new show with the comedy duo for a 2002 transmission.
www.vicandbob.net /text/awards.htm   (265 words)

  
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 The Simpsons Archive: Awards & Honours
This document lists not only Emmy awards, but many other honours given to Our Favourite Family and its creators by various organisations from around the world -- from the British Comedy Awards to social justice groups such as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
If you know of an award or accolade that is not listed here, please send it to kwyjibo@snpp.com with the subject "Awards Page Suggestion".
In addition to the awards listed below, The Simpsons also received the honour of getting their own star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard on 14th January, 2000.
www.snpp.com /guides/awards.html   (931 words)

  
 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005 -- Speakers
Griffith received the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT award for inventiveness, and was awarded the Collegiate Inventors award by the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Hillis is the recipient of numerous awards, including the inaugural Dan David Prize for shaping and enriching society and public life, the Spirit of American Creativity Award for his inventions, the Hopper Award for his contributions to computer science, and the Ramanujan Award for his work in applied mathematics.
From 1991 to 1997, Lessig was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
conferences.oreillynet.com /pub/w/36/speakers.html   (8604 words)

  
 Buddy - About The Cast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Her screen career made a similarly rapid ascent as she turned to acting in 1988, co-starring in the hit comedy Major League.
He went on to win an Olivier Award for "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" at the Royal national Theatre in 1991.
He was recently nominated for an Emmy for his appearances on the hit television comedy Murphy Brown.
www.filmscouts.com /scripts/matinee.cfm?Film=buddy&File=cast   (1856 words)

  
 Target Cinema Red : Alan Cumming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The production was nominated for Best revival at the 1991 Olivier awards and Alan won for Comedy Performance of the Year.
In the 1992 Olivier awards he was also nominated for Comedy Performance of the Year for 'La Bete'.
He received a 1994 Olivier award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for Cabaret, and for Hamlet he received the 1994 TMA Best Actor award and a Shakespeare Globe award nomination.
cinemared.target.com /cinemared/cr_main.jsp?section=browsemovies&page=pdetail&pid=nm0001086   (683 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Only Fools and Horses - The Complete Series 1-3: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Regularly touted as one of the best British sitcoms ever, Only Fools and Horses kicked off in 1981 when mobile phones were the size of bricks and wine bars were the ultimate places to hang out in.
Derek "Del Boy" Trotter (the signature role for veteran comedy actor David Jason (A Touch of Frost, The Darling Buds of May, Open All Hours, Micawber)) is the street-smart, smooth-talking, self-confident, self-important "brains" of the business (and I use the term loosely!).
Its only been in the last couple of years its been possible to gain access to classic British cmedy that was not made in the 70s and is not bladdy benny hill or keeping up apearances.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AGQ28?v=glance   (2363 words)

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