Theatre Phrases

Phrases

• '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)
• 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)
• 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