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'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 )
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Absolutely Fabulous ( BBC comedy television series )
Are You Being Served? ( BBC comedy television series )
Beyond Our Ken ( BBC comedy radio series )
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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 )
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Billy no mates
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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 )