Comedy Phrases

Phrases with comedy in them

• 'Allo 'Allo! (BBC comedy television series)
• 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)
• Birds of a Feather (BBC comedy television series)
• Black comedy
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Citizen Smith (BBC comedy television series)
• 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
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Desperate Housewives (2004 comedy drama television series)
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Faulty Towers (BBC comedy television series)
• 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)
• It Ain't Half Hot Mum (BBC comedy television series)
• Knock about comedy
• Low comedy
• Men Behaving Badly (BBC comedy television series)
• On the Buses (BBC comedy television series)
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• Open All Hours (Ronnie Barker television comedy series)
• Phoenix Nights (BBC comedy television series)
• Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (BBC comedy television series)
• Stand-up comedy ()
• Steptoe and Son (BBC comedy television series)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Brittas Empire (BBC comedy television series)
• The Comedy of Errors
• 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 Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
• The Vicar of Dibley (BBC comedy television series)
• The Young Ones (BBC comedy television series)
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• To the Manor Born (BBC comedy television series)
• Up Pompeii (BBC comedy television series)
• Yes Minister (BBC comedy television series)

Phrases about comedy

• 'Allo 'Allo! (BBC comedy television series)
• A Day At The Races (Marx Brothers movie)
• 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)
• Billy no mates
• Birds of a Feather (BBC comedy television series)
• Black comedy
• Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks movie)
• Blue humour
• Brevity is the soul of wit
• Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• By way of a joke
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• 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)
• Curb your enthusiasm
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Dame Edna Everage (Pseudonym of comedian Barry Humphries)
• Dark humour
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Desperate Housewives (2004 comedy drama television series)
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Dry humor
• Everyone’s a comedian
• Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Faulty Towers (BBC comedy television series)
• Fringe theatre
• 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
• Gallows humour
• 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)
• Humour me
• 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
• Knock about comedy
• Last of the Summer Wine
• Laugh a minute
• Locker room humour
• 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 Fringe
• On the Buses (BBC comedy television series)
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One liner
• Only Fools and Horses
• 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)
• Play it for laughs
• Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
• Redd Foxx (Pseudonym of comedian John Elroy Sanford)
• Rising Damp
• Robin Hood – Men In Tights (Mel Brooks movie)
• Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
• Saturday Night Live
• Sick joke
• Silent Movie (Mel Brooks movie)
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• 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)
• Stop it you're killing me
• 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 Color Purple (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• The Comedy of Errors
• The Great Non-Rehearser (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
• The Great One (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
• 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 Pink Panther (Peter Sellers / David Niven movie)
• 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 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 About Mary (Cameron Diaz movie)
• There’s something funny about it
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• To the Manor Born (BBC comedy television series)
• Toilet humour
• Up Pompeii (BBC comedy television series)
• Up the academy
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• Yes Minister (BBC comedy television series)
• You know it makes sense (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks / Gene Wilder movie)

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