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'Allo 'Allo! ( BBC
comedy
television series )
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 )
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
America's Favorite Cowboy ( Nickname of
actor
Gene Autry )
Angel Cups ( Nickname of soap
character
Marcy Rhoades )
Annie
Hall
( Woody Allen movie )
Are You Being Served? ( BBC
comedy
television series )
As the
actress
said to the bishop
Bat Masterson ( Nickname of American western
character
William Barclay Masterson )
Behind the
curtain
Behind the scenes
Beyond Our Ken ( BBC
comedy
radio series )
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Birds of a Feather ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Black
comedy
Blow off the
stage
Body
building
Bring the house down
Broadway
Joe ( Nickname of baseball player Joe Namath )
Bucky Beaver ( Nickname of
actress
Jenna Elfman )
Building
castles in the air
Cake or death ( line from Eddie Izzard
comedy
)
Change of
scene
( A new location and way of thinking )
Character
assassination
Character
driven fiction
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
Curtain
call
Curtain
climber
Curtain
raiser
Dad's Army ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Dark monday
Desperate Dan ( a cowboy strongman
character
in the British comic The Dandy )
Desperate Housewives ( 2004
comedy
drama
television series )
Don't put your daughter on the
stage
Mrs Worthington
Drama
documentary
Drop the Dead Donkey ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Elvis has left the
building
Empire State
Building
Exit
stage
left
Far better for being near to you ( The Chesham
Building
Society advertising slogan )
Father Ted ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Faulty Towers ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Frasier has left the
building
( A catchphrase from Frasier )
Fringe theatre
Front of house
Full fathom five thy father lies ( from The Tempest by
Shakespeare
)
Globe
trotter
Hall
of fame
Ham
actor
Hancock's Half Hour ( BBC
comedy
radio and television series )
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside ( British Music
Hall
song )
I get no respect, I tell ya ( A catchphrase from Rodney Dangerfield In
Comedy
Monologue )
If music be the food of love, play on ( from Twelth Night by
Shakespeare
)
In the limelight
Investments with Abbey endings ( Abbey National
Building
Society advertising slogan )
Is there a doctor in the house?
It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( BBC
comedy
television series )
It will be all right on the night
Joey Pants ( Nickname of
actor
Joe Pantoliano )
Johnny Pizza ( Nickname of
actor
John Santucci )
Kitchen sink
drama
Knock about
comedy
Liberty
hall
Love is a
battlefield
Love
scene
Low
comedy
Make a
scene
( causing a disturbance )
Make the
scene
Men Behaving Badly ( BBC
comedy
television series )
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ( from a poem by
Shakespeare
)
Not a dry eye in the house
Not a dry seat in the house
O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo ( from the play by
Shakespeare
)
On
cue
On the Buses ( BBC
comedy
television series )
One Foot In The Grave ( BBC
comedy
television series )
One Size ( Nickname of Fitz
Hall
)
Open All Hours ( Ronnie Barker television
comedy
series )
Out of
character
Penis Von Lesbian ( Nickname of
actor
Dick Van Dyke )
Phoenix Nights ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Red Buttons ( Pseudonym of
actor
Aaron Chwatt )
Red Dwarf ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Ring down the
curtain
Schnickle Fritz ( Nickname of
actress
Susan Lucci )
See that girl, watch that
scene
( ABBA lyric )
Set the
stage
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ( from a poem by
Shakespeare
)
Shovel ready ( a
building
project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged )
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Stage
door Johnny
Stand-up
comedy
( )
Star of
stage
and screen
Steal the
scene
Steptoe and Son ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Survey the
scene
Suspension of disbelief
Take centre
stage
Take your
cue
The Army Game ( BBC
comedy
television series )
The Bamboo
Curtain
( notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China )
The Bard of Avon ( Nickname of William
Shakespeare
)
The Brittas Empire ( BBC
comedy
television series )
The Chrysler
Building
( tourist attraction in New York USA )
The
Comedy
of Errors
The Empire State
Building
( tourist attraction in New York USA )
The Girl with the Upside-Down Eyes ( Nickname of
actress
Glynis Johns )
The Iron
Curtain
( notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states )
The King Of
Comedy
( Robert De Niro movie )
The League of Gentlemen ( BBC
comedy
television series )
The Likely Lads ( BBC
comedy
television series )
The Little Queen of the Soap Operas ( Nickname of
actress
Anne Francis )
The Liver Birds ( BBC
comedy
television series )
The Man of Many Moods ( Nickname of
actor
Charles Laughton )
The Matinee Lady ( Nickname of
actress
Carol Wayne )
The New Statesman ( BBC
comedy
television series )
The Prince of Menace ( Nickname of
actor
Vincent Price )
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 Swan of Avon ( Nickname of William
Shakespeare
)
The Vicar of Dibley ( BBC
comedy
television series )
The Voice of Canada ( Nickname of
actor
Lorne Greene )
The Young Ones ( BBC
comedy
television series )
The big screen
The lady doth protest too much, methinks ( from Hamlet by
Shakespeare
)
The quality of mercy is not strained ( from The Merchant of Venice by
Shakespeare
)
The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd
The show must go on
The
stage
is set
This above all: to thine own self be true ( William
Shakespeare
)
Till Death Us Do Part ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Tiptoe through the tulips ( 1920s
Broadway
song and Tiny Tim hit )
To be or not to be: that is the question ( from a Hamlet by
Shakespeare
)
To the Manor Born ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Tread the boards
Two on the aisle
Up Pompeii ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Waiting in the wings
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ( from Henry V by
Shakespeare
)
We won't make a
drama
out of a crisis ( Commercial Union advertising slogan )
We're with the Woolwich ( Woolwich
Building
Society advertising slogan )
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes ( from a sonnet by
Shakespeare
)
World
cinema
Yes Minister ( BBC
comedy
television series )
You can't fight city
hall
Your name in lights