• Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour is an American half-hour television variety show that ran on ABC-TV on Thursday nights at 7:30 p.m. from January 22,...
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    Adrian Listenger". Early in 1970, he headlined his own series Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour, which ran 13 weeks on ABC. Guests on the first show were former...
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    Bob Einstein (category American comedy writers)
    Brothers Comedy Hour and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Einstein won two Emmy Awards as a writer and was nominated four other times. He also won a CableACE...
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  • Television Onion News Network Out of Control Party Over Here Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour Pause with Sam Jay The Pete Holmes Show Pink Lady Pinwheel...
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    Marcus Welby, M.D., Maude, and Hotel. She also was a regular on Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour (1970).: 816  In addition to film and television roles...
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    (2010). Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". New York City: Touchstone Books. p. 367. ISBN 978-1439101179. The Guide...
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  • work writing comedy sketches, which later led to acting opportunities. First a semi-regular in the cast of the 1960s sitcom Occasional Wife, a short-lived...
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  • Came Paulsen", on Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour. Paulsen's motorcycle had training wheels. The series was also satirized by Mad magazine in a piece...
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  • third episode of the 1970 series Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour, Paulsen interviews Foghorn Leghorn, voiced by Mel Blanc. A carving of Foghorn Leghorn is...
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    Don Adams (category Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners)
    as bumbling Maxwell Smart (Secret Agent 86) in the television situation comedy Get Smart (1965–1970, 1995), which he also sometimes directed and wrote...
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    on The Pat Paulsen Half A Comedy Show. When Martin decided to devote himself to stand-up he invited Elias to write material for him. This began a long collaboration...
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  • traditional 3½-hour prime time schedule. NOTE: On CBS, Comedy Playhouse was an anthology series composed of unsold television pilots. Note: NBC Comedy Theater...
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  • stands for Looney Tunes MM stands for Merrie Melodies Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour: Paulsen interviews Daffy (voiced by Mel Blanc) in the debut episode...
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  • States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1969 through August 1970. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series...
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  • Allan Blye (category American comedy writers)
    2024) was a Canadian-born American television writer known as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. He played...
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    performances. Their own television variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, became one of the most controversial American TV programs of the Vietnam...
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    Rickles had a two-season starring role in the NBC television sitcom C.P.O. Sharkey, having previously starred in two eponymous half-hour programs, an...
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  • fall into observational comedy, or into black comedy or blue comedy to contrast the morbidity, or offensiveness of the joke with a lack of emotion. "45 Types...
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  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) (category 1980s American animated comedy television series)
    Cam Clarke) – A mutant cheetah. Ram Mystic (voiced by Rob Paulsen) – An unnamed ram mutant with mystical powers. Raptor (voiced by Pat Fraley) – An unspecified...
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    This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. In early Primetime Emmy Award...
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  • The Carol Burnett Show (category 1960s American sketch comedy television series)
    (1983–1990), a half-hour situation comedy based on "The Family" sketch series from The Carol Burnett Show. By 1967, Carol Burnett had been a popular veteran...
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    Dennis Miller (category American comedy writers)
    Sports Unfiltered, a weekly one-hour sports talk show. It was canceled after eight episodes. For the first year and a half of his comedy career, Miller relied...
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    This is a list of comedy films released in the 1990s. Bean (1997) Beautiful People (1999) Brassed Off (1996) Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997) The...
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  • Droopy, Master Detective (category American children's animated comedy television series)
    half-hour program mostly was taken up by Screwy Squirrel, another Tex Avery creation from the 1940s. In these new cartoons, Screwy made his home in a...
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  • The Gong Show (category 1970s American comedy game shows)
    appeared as judges including David Letterman, Steve Martin, Mort Sahl, Pat Paulsen, Chuck Woolery, Allen Ludden and Sandy Duncan. If any judge considered...
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    Disney. Each half-hour episode consisted of various short cartoons that fell into three general types: 90-second gag cartoons, 7-and-a-half-minute character...
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  • said the series was able to tell its story through the "breeze" of its half-hour episodes, and praised Gunn's knack for "making you laugh and cry in equal...
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    spent approximately an hour speaking with old friends and well-wishers. Dole endorsed and campaigned for incumbent Kansas Senator Pat Roberts during the latter's...
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    ourcampaigns.com. Saavedra, Scott (August 2020). "Running for Laughs: Pat Paulsen and Other Comic Candidates for President". RetroFan (10). United States:...
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    Sunday 7:30-8:30 p.m. summer replacement for Cher's variety hour. Comedy performers Pat Paulsen, Henny Youngman and Bob Einstein were supporting regulars...
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