Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve variety show, sitcom elements, sketches, and various types of comedy found in other media. It may also include more surreal or fantastic elements, as these can be conveyed on a small budget with just a few sound effects or some simple dialogue. Radio comedy began in the United States in 1930, based on the fact that as most United Kingdom music hall comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel progressed to silent films, they moved to Hollywood and fed the radio comedy field. Another British music hall comic, George Formby, stayed in the British movie industry, and in 1940 joined the Entertainments National Service Association to entertain British World War II troops. UK radio comedy therefore started later, in the 1950s.
Radiocomedy, or comedicradio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve variety show, sitcom elements, sketches, and various types of comedy...
amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated...
Reeves and Bob Mortimer Best comedy film: Home Alone Best radiocomedy: On The Hour/The Million Pound Radio Show Top radiocomedy personality: Phil Holden...
This is a list of radiocomedies. Man of the People: The Only-Recently Discovered Secret Political Recordings of Acting Mayor Francis "Woody" Woodson The...
Throughout film, television, and radio, British comedy has become known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots, and settings, and has produced...
Revision. A second series followed in May 2016, winning the Rose d'Or for RadioComedy. The follow-up, Paul Sinha's General Knowledge, has completed its third...
Perrier award for comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and their radio series On the Town with the League of Gentlemen, debuted on BBC Radio 4. On the Town...
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BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC Radio 7) is a British digital radio station from the BBC, broadcasting archived repeats of comedy, drama and documentary...
sitcom. The terms "situation comedy" or "sitcom" were not commonly used until the 1950s. There were prior examples on radio, but the first television sitcom...
Penguin, ISBN 978-1-59257-231-1 Alan Havig (1991-10-10), Fred Allen's RadioComedy, ISBN 978-0-87722-810-3 O'Connor, Anahad. "Greg Giraldo, Insult-Humor...
science-fiction series written by Douglas Adams. Originally a radiocomedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it later morphed into other formats, including...
trends can be noted in Canadian comedy. One thread is the portrayal of a "typical" Canadian family in an ongoing radio or television series. Examples include...
Many BBC radiocomedy programmes have been successful enough for the writers and performers to adapt them into television programmes. Unless otherwise...
Finnemore (born 28 September 1977) is a British comedy writer and actor. He wrote and performed in the radio series Cabin Pressure, John Finnemore's Souvenir...
was an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He is best remembered for playing...
1968, radio surreal comedy group The Firesign Theatre revolutionized the concept of the spoken comedy album by writing and recording elaborate radio plays...
Acaster hosted on FUBAR Radio, an internet radio station with a focus on comedy; an executive producer compared it to the radio programme Desert Island...
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