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  Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman (December 30, 1959 -), British comedienne, actress, and singer who is most famous for being the host of a variety television show bearing her name.
Born in London, England, her early appearances were in British TV sketch comedy shows with Rik Mayall[?] in "Kick Up the Eighties[?]" and "Three of a Kind" with Lenny Henry and the English comedian David Copperfield[?].
Her US television show, "The Tracey Ullman Show" earned four Emmies and spawned "The Simpsons", which was featured in very simple cartoon shorts.
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 Tracey Ullman photos, info and news - People
"Tracey Ullman" (born December 30, 1959 in Slough, Berkshire, England) is a British comedienne, actress, and singer who is most famous for being the host of a variety television show bearing her name.
Ullman was unsuccesful and viewed by some as trying to greedily cash in on a project that she could not show in court that she had any hand in creating.
Ullman returned to HBO in the summer of 2005, with a special of her autobiographical one-woman stage show, "Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed".
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 BBC - Comedy - Guide - The Tracey Ullman Show
The format of the show capitalised on Ullman's acting ability and mastery of dialects and characterisation by placing her in different comedy playlets each week, some only a few minutes long, some lasting for more than half the programme.
Also, the pace of the shows was perhaps too slow for British audiences, and the nature of the sketches - which embraced pathos, desperation and dramatic situations - was not of a style to which British audiences respond well (witness the critical slamming that Diana and Thompson accrued).
Ullman must have been disillusioned with her home country's response, although - being British herself - she probably could have predicted the cynical reception it was bound to receive.
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/t/traceyullmanshow_7776465.shtml   (465 words)

  
 The Tracey Ullman Show TV Show - The Tracey Ullman Show Television Show - TV.com
The show was one of the first programs on the then-new FOX Network in the U.S. in the mid 1980s.
Overall the Simpsons made appearances in 50 episodes in the show\'s first three seasons and one additional apppearance in the fourth and final season.', 'A variety/sketch show brought to you by funnywoman Tracey Ullman.
The Ben Stiller Show is a sketch comedy show that aired on Fox from 1992 to 1993.
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 Tracking Tracey - An Interview with Tracey Ullman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Her show was an unlikely bet for Fox to place, but their hesitance was certainly modified by a staff with television pedigrees up the wazoo.
Tracey's impersonation of a current American teenager is so accurate it's frightening, and it's just one of many eclectic recurring characters on the show.
Tracey says she always bases a character on someone she knows, which may explain why they're never surface impersonations, why she never seems to be making fun or condescending.
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 The Simpsons on The Tracey Ullman Show
Prior to appearing in their own show, our friends appeared as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, one of the first programs on the then-new Fox Network in the U.S. in the mid 1980s.
The Tracey Ullman Show was screened every day from March to June 1997.
Unfortunately, this was the last time The Tracey Ullman Show would be seen on the Comedy Channel.
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 Tracey Takes On: Sex, Romance, Fantasy | The Onion - America's Finest News Source   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Tracey Ullman Show, Tracey Ullman's eccentric comic-anthology series of the late '80s and early '90s, is best known for introducing The Simpsons to the public, but it was also an interesting, uneven show that revealed Ullman to be a talented if mannered comic actress.
For someone so acclaimed for her range, Ullman's characters are all pretty similar: Her working-class characters are broadly drawn grotesques that frequently lapse into vulgarity; her male characters are either prissy or Neanderthal; and her female middle- to upper-class characters rarely come off as anything beyond clever caricatures.
Her show, however, would benefit from a greater emphasis on writing and less emphasis on turning its star into a one-woman wax museum of sideshow freaks.
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 The Tracey Ullman Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I don't think The Tracey Ullman Show, which aired just four seasons on FOX from 87-90, was on long enough to jump the shark.
The Tracy Ullman Show never jumped, and her LP "You broke my heart in seventeen places" was also pretty good.
My uncle was a bodyguard on the set of the Tracy Ullman show, and he said that everyone in the cast was down to earth and nice, except for Tracy, who he said was a total bitch.
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 Tracey Ullman News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tracey Ullman Takes on Knitting [with audio] NPR - September 29 2006 Tracey Ullman has worn many hats during her career.
Multifaceted actress-comedienne Tracey Ullman returns to DVD with 15 episodes from the second season of her Emmy and CableACE Award-winning comedy series.
Fans of the hit animated TV show 'The Simpsons' know that they owe the very existence of their favorite show to British comedienne Tracey Ullman.
www.topix.net /who/tracey-ullman   (605 words)

  
 Tracey Ullman Biography (Actor) — Infoplease.com
Tracey Ullman is a comedian with a taste for playing dozens of characters, often with heavy makeup and accents, in her TV shows.
Ullman married the producer Allan McKeown in 1983.
Tracey Ullman - Tracey Ullman comedian; actress; singer Born: 12/30/1959 Birthplace: Slough, Berkshire, England...
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 Tracey Ullman in Tracey Takes On.
Tracey Ullman burst onto the American scene in 1987 with her own comedy/variety show, "The Tracey Ullman Show" for which she received the 1989 Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program, 1990 Emmy Awards for outstanding Performance in a Variety Program and outstanding Writing of a Variety Show.
Ullman was born in London, England, to a Polish emigre father and British mother.
Tracey herself has won the 1999 SAG Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Comedy Series, and three American Comedy Awards, Funniest Female Performer in a Television Series in 1998 and again in 1999, as well as Funniest Female Guest Appearance in a Television Series for "Ally McBeal".
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 TRACEY ULLMAN:  LIVE & EXPOSED
Comic chameleon Tracey Ullman has played dozens of memorable roles in her celebrated career, from a male New York City cabbie, to a Vietnamese doughnut-maker, to a veteran Hollywood makeup artist.
TRACEY ULLMAN: LIVE and EXPOSED presents her without “heavy makeup, wigs or even chest hair.” Joined by a live band, with whom she sings her hit single “They Don’t Know,” Ullman draws on personal photographs and films as she tells her story.
She begins her account at age six, when she performed the original “Tracey Ullman Show” in her mother’s bedroom, recalling her early struggles as a dancer, and her success on the BBC and then American TV, as well as in movies.
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 NoHomers.net | Simpsons Episode Guide | The Tracey Ullman Era
The characters in the shorts were voiced by the show's cast members (Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, and Nancy Cartwright) and eventually every episode of Ullman's program would have three Simpsons shorts linked by a common plot such as Bart going to get a haircut.
When "The Tracey Ullman Show" finished a four season run in 1990, "The Simpsons" was reborn as a full-length show and became the driving force behind FOX's growth into a major network.
As Marge and Homer say goodnight to the kids, Bart philosophically ponders the workings of the mind; Lisa hears Marge say, "Don't let the bedbugs bite," and fears that the bedbugs will eat her; Maggie listens to Marge sing "Rock-a-Bye-Baby" and is traumatized by the lyrics.
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 Tracey Ullman Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ullman proved a kind of Cockney Carol Burnett-Imogene Coca for the 1980s, who was completely transformed with the help of wigs, makeup prosthetics, body language and accents.
Ullman earned her first show business acclaim on the British stage in "Four in a Million" (1981) an improvised comedy at the Royal Court Theater for which she won a London Critics Award.
Ullman performed in a couple of HBO comedy specials "Tracey Ullman: Takes on New York" and "A Class Act" (both 1993) as well as the spin-off series "Tracey Takes On..." (1996-1999).
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 Tracey Ullman
Bron in Slough, Berkshire England, Tracey Ullman's father died when she was six.
Ullman followed this with the satirical BBC comedy series, Three of a Kind, which earned her a British Academy Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance in 1983.
Not content to be just a dancer or actress, Ullman became a true triple threat when she hit the British pop music scene in 1984.
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 Totally Tracey Online
The good: There are reports that Tracey will be inducted into the Museum of Television and Radio as part of the She Made It initiative, along with Carol Burnett, Betty White, newscasters Jane Pauley and Lesley Stahl, and sportscaster Lesley Visser.
Tracey is involved with two movies that are now (November 2006) playing in theaters.
If you search for Tracey, you'll come up with a list of every time she appeared on the Carson-era show.
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 They Don't Know by Tracey Ullman Songfacts
She was the daughter of Folk singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote Roberta Flack's "The First Time I Ever saw Your Face." In December 2000, she tragically died after being hit by a speedboat in the Caribbean.
After her death, Tracey Ullman took part in a tribute concert for her.
Tracey Ullman is a British comedy actress who moved to the US and starred in her own TV series, The Tracey Ullman Show, which was one of the first shows on the Fox network.
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 Tracey Ullman Photos, Cast, Episodes for Tracey Ullman | TVGuide.com
Premise: The splendid Ullman headlined one of Fox's first prime-time series, which featured sketches, song-and-dance routines and an eclectic lineup of guests (including Steve Martin, Isabella Rossellini, Glenn Close, Mel Brooks and Martin Short).
A cocreation of James L. Brooks, it showed Ullman to be a master of many characters (and voices), gave Fox its first Emmy and was also the birthplace of a little animated ditty created by Matt Groening called `The Simpsons' (which got its own show in 1990).
There are no group posts for Tracey Ullman.
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 Tracey Ullman
Biography: Tracey Ullman was born 12/30/1959 in Berkshire, England.
After doing some acting in theatre, she made her debut TV appearance in the 81 TV series "Three of a Kind." One of her biggest ventures was her own variety show "The Tracey Ullman Show".
After her show ended in 90, she appeared in "I Love You To Death", and Bullets Over Broadway.
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 The Simpsons Archive: The Simpsons on The Tracey Ullman Show
The Simpsons Archive: The Simpsons on The Tracey Ullman Show
The shorts are quite different from the half-hour show; see the Notes at the end of the list.
In the first few episodes Comedy Central showed, the shorts were cut in the same places as when Lifetime showed them, even though Comedy Central said they would be making their own cuts rather than using the ones Lifetime used.
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 The Simpsons shorts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By the fourth and last season of The Tracy Ullman Show the first season of the half-hour show was on the air.
Tracy Ullman filed a lawsuit, claiming that her show was the source of The Simpsons success and therefore should receive a share of the show's profit.
Five of these shorts were later used in the clip show episode "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" on the half-hour show, which was released on the season 7 DVD.
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 "The Tracey Ullman Show" (1987)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In fact, "The Tracey Ullman Show" was a bigger hit in America than when it aired on the BBC; too bad.
This playlet show (most of the pieces were too long to qualify as "sketches") was a great showcase for Trace and her fellow players, most notably Julie Kavner and Dan Castellaneta (though I suppose we shouldn't overlook Sam McMurray [especially as the Tom Jones-type Gulliver Dark] and even Joseph Malone).
It's Kayyyy..."), and golfer Kiki Howard-Smith - and the humour was more gentle than roll-on-the-floor; for instance, Jinx Haber was hired for the role of Peter Pan because she could really fly, but when the union objected that she was putting harness operators out of work she was fired.
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 The Tracey Ullman Show [TV Series] - Moviefone
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 I'll Take Pop Culture For $1,000, Alex...:TELEVISION: THE WORLD OF TRACEY ULLMAN
Tracey Ullman is one of the best comedians I know.
In addition to the one-shot skits, The Tracey Ullman Show included such memorable characters and little Francesca who is being raised by two gay dads, the socially challenged Kay and the stoic psychiatrist Dr. Gibson.
In the spirit of her original late 80s show, Tracey Ullman plays various characters on this HBO show...but, instead of being loose skit comedy, she uses the characters to delve into such issues as romance, love, fantasy, obsession, dating, and so on.
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 TRACEY ULLMAN at THESPIAN NET
Tracey Ullman was raised by her mother when her father died when she was six.
It was her mother who encouraged her to pursue her performing aspirations, and at the age of twelve she received a scholarship to stage school.
Tracey's performance won her the London Theatre Critics' Award for Most Promising New Actress of 1981.
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 Tracey Ullman - On Television
Tracey's latest effort is another exercise in performance art which looks to be her most ambitious yet.
Tracey promoted the show by saying, "It's about me and all the characters that I do.
"The Tracey Ullman Show" which ran from 1987 to 1990 broke new ground in terms of format, writing and comedy.
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 The Tracey Ullman Show Episode Guide
The Tracey Ullman Show is best known as the birthplace of The Simpsons.
Two episodes in season 3 and two in season 4 are clip shows of Tracey’s other characters and do not contain Simpsons shorts.
The standard screening plan for each show is indicated in the last column of each table.
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