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Comedian Phrases

119 phrases and expressions related to "comedian".

Phrases

  • 'Allo 'Allo! (BBC comedy television series)
  • A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future: Twists And Turns, And Lessons Learned (Michael J. Fox book)
  • A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
  • Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
  • Absolutely Fabulous (BBC comedy television series)
  • Are You Being Served? (BBC comedy television series)
  • Beyond Our Ken (BBC comedy radio series)
  • Beyond a joke
  • Big-Hearted Arthur (Nickname of comedian Arthur Askey)
  • Bill Stickers is innocent (comic response to the warning Bill stickers will be prosecuted)
  • Birds of a Feather (BBC comedy television series)
  • Black comedy
  • Blue humour
  • Brevity is the soul of wit
  • By way of a joke
  • Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
  • Chin wag
  • Citizen Smith (BBC comedy television series)
  • Come over all funny
  • Comedy circuit (A number of places where comedy is performed)
  • Comedy of errors (A series of comic mishaps either in a play or in real life)
  • Comedy vehicle
  • Comic strip
  • Comic timing (The rhythm and tempo of delivery required for comic effect)
  • Comic valentine (A valentine card sent for comic effect)
  • Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
  • Dame Edna Everage (Pseudonym of comedian Barry Humphries)
  • Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
  • Desperate Housewives (2004 comedy drama television series)
  • Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
  • Everyone's a comedian
  • Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
  • Faulty Towers (BBC comedy television series)
  • Funny farm
  • Funny haha or funny peculiar?
  • Funny how? (A catchphrase from Goodfellas)
  • Funny in the head
  • Funny money
  • Funny you should ask
  • Funny, you don't look Jewish
  • Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
  • Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It (Will Smith song)
  • Hancock's Half Hour (BBC comedy radio and television series)
  • I get no respect, I tell ya (A catchphrase from Rodney Dangerfield In Comedy Monologue)
  • Inside joke
  • It Ain't Half Hot Mum (BBC comedy television series)
  • It's no joke
  • Joke around
  • Joker in the pack
  • Just like that (A catchphrase from Tommy Cooper)
  • Knock about comedy
  • Lonesome George (Nickname of comedian George Gobel)
  • Low comedy
  • Men Behaving Badly (BBC comedy television series)
  • My Funny Valentine (Rodgers and Hart song)
  • Native wit
  • No joke
  • On the Buses (BBC comedy television series)
  • One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
  • Open All Hours (Ronnie Barker television comedy series)
  • Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
  • Phoenix Nights (BBC comedy television series)
  • Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
  • Redd Foxx (Pseudonym of comedian John Elroy Sanford)
  • Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
  • Shut that door (A catchphrase from Larry Grayson)
  • Sick joke
  • Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (BBC comedy television series)
  • Spit take (spitting out a drink in response to a joke or surprise)
  • Stand-up comedy ()
  • Steptoe and Son (BBC comedy television series)
  • Tears Of A Clown (Smokey Robinson song)
  • The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
  • The Big Yin (Nickname of comedian Billy Connolly)
  • The Brittas Empire (BBC comedy television series)
  • The Charlie Chaplin of Television (Nickname of comedian Alan Young)
  • The Cheapest Man in the World (Nickname of comedian Jack Benny)
  • The Cheeky Chappie (Nickname of comedian Max Miller)
  • The Clown Killer (Nickname of John Gacy)
  • The Clown Prince (Nickname of Paul Gascoigne)
  • The Comedy of Errors
  • The Great Non-Rehearser (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
  • The Great One (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
  • The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
  • The Jester (Nickname of Gilbert Arenas)
  • The King Of Comedy (Robert De Niro movie)
  • The League of Gentlemen (BBC comedy television series)
  • The Likely Lads (BBC comedy television series)
  • The Liver Birds (BBC comedy television series)
  • The New Statesman (BBC comedy television series)
  • The Prime Minister of Mirth (Nickname of George Robey)
  • The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
  • The Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
  • The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
  • The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
  • The Tears of a Clown
  • The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)
  • The Vicar of Dibley (BBC comedy television series)
  • The Young Ones (BBC comedy television series)
  • The joke's over
  • There's something funny about it
  • Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
  • To the Manor Born (BBC comedy television series)
  • Up Pompeii (BBC comedy television series)
  • Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
  • Yes Minister (BBC comedy television series)

Related

  • Big-Hearted Arthur (Nickname of comedian Arthur Askey)
  • Dame Edna Everage (Pseudonym of comedian Barry Humphries)
  • Everyone's a comedian
  • Lonesome George (Nickname of comedian George Gobel)
  • Redd Foxx (Pseudonym of comedian John Elroy Sanford)
  • The Big Yin (Nickname of comedian Billy Connolly)
  • The Charlie Chaplin of Television (Nickname of comedian Alan Young)
  • The Cheapest Man in the World (Nickname of comedian Jack Benny)
  • The Cheeky Chappie (Nickname of comedian Max Miller)
  • The Great Non-Rehearser (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
  • The Great One (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
  • The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
  • The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)