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'Allo 'Allo! ( BBC
comedy
television series )
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 )
American Home has an edifice complex ( American Home
Magazine
advertising slogan )
Are You Being Served? ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Batman
and Robin ( Nickname of baseball players Mike Piazza and Robin Ventura )
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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Birds of a Feather ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Black
comedy
By way of a
joke
Cake or death ( line from Eddie Izzard
comedy
)
Candy is
dandy
but liquor is quicker ( from a poem by Nash )
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 )
Dad's Army ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Dame Edna Everage ( Pseudonym of
comedian
Barry Humphries )
Dandy
Don ( Nickname of American football player Don Meredith )
Desperate Dan ( a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The
Dandy
)
Desperate Housewives ( 2004
comedy
drama television series )
Dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner, Batman!
Drop the Dead Donkey ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Everyone's a
comedian
Father Ted ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Faulty Towers ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Fine and
dandy
For the overwhelming minority ( Vogue
Magazine
advertising slogan )
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
Genius bonus ( a
joke
or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people )
Hancock's Half Hour ( BBC
comedy
radio and television series )
Have you any last requests? (
humorous
question asked as though a person was about to be killed )
Holy cow
Batman
I get no respect, I tell ya ( A catchphrase from Rodney Dangerfield In
Comedy
Monologue )
If it wasn't in VOGUE It wasn't in vogue ( Vogue
Magazine
advertising slogan )
Inside
joke
It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( BBC
comedy
television series )
It's no
joke
Joke
around
Knock about
comedy
Lonesome George ( Nickname of
comedian
George Gobel )
Low
comedy
Men Behaving Badly ( BBC
comedy
television series )
My
Funny
Valentine ( Rodgers and Hart song )
No
joke
On the Buses ( BBC
comedy
television series )
One Foot In The Grave ( BBC
comedy
television series )
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 )
Pop art
Reap the rewards of Money ( Money
Magazine
advertising slogan )
Red Dwarf ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Redd Foxx ( Pseudonym of
comedian
John Elroy Sanford )
Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel ( A catchphrase from
Batman
TV show )
Sick
joke
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 )
Tears Of A
Clown
( Smokey Robinson song )
The Army Game ( BBC
comedy
television series )
The Big Yin ( Nickname of
comedian
Billy Connolly )
The Boy Wonder ( Nickname of Robin )
The Brittas Empire ( BBC
comedy
television series )
The Caped Crusader ( Nickname of
Batman
)
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
Clown
Killer ( Nickname of John Gacy )
The
Clown
Prince ( Nickname of Paul Gascoigne )
The
Comedy
of Errors
The Great Non-Rehearser ( Nickname of
comedian
Jackie Gleason )
The Great One ( Nickname of
comedian
Jackie Gleason )
The
Jester
( Nickname of Gilbert Arenas )
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 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 Tears of a
Clown
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
funny
about it
Till Death Us Do Part ( BBC
comedy
television series )
To the Batcave ( A catchphrase from
Batman
)
To the Manor Born ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Top shelf
magazine
Up Pompeii ( BBC
comedy
television series )
Winter drawers on ( old British euphemistic
joke
)
Yankee Doodle
Dandy
Yes Minister ( BBC
comedy
television series )