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4) Funny girl
Author
Language
English
Description
In swinging 60s England, the nation is mesmerized by unlikely comedy star Sophie Straw, the former Blackpool beauty queen who just wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. Behind the scenes, the cast and crew are having the time of their lives. But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home, and life starts imitating art, they all face a choice. The show's writers, Tony and Bill, comedy obsessives, each harbour a secret....
5) Springfield confidential: jokes, secrets, and outright lies from a lifetime writing for the Simpsons
Author
Language
English
Description
"The longest-serving writer and producer for "The Simpsons" offers a humorous look at the writing and making of the legendary Fox series that has become one of the most revered artistic achievements in television history." --
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
From romantically challenged cabbage heads to serial head crushing, five men from Canada turned sketch comedy into a bizarre, irreverent, and always hilarious weekly showcase of side-splitting unpredictability. The fact that they often did it wearing women's clothes made it even funnier.
Publisher
BBC Video
Language
English
Description
It's veuve bourbs all round, sweeties! The doyenes of PR and fashion are back! Five years have gone by, Edina has a new TV production company, Patsy's been promoted and they're simply more fabulous than ever! Six new episodes of the television series. Parralox: Fame at last darling! Edina's due to appear on Richard and Judy in the morning and an invitation to Trudi and Sting's can't be far behind. She'd better iron out those wrinkles - luckily, Patsy...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Based on the popular British series of the same name, this faster-paced American version follows the daily interactions of a group of idiosyncratic office employees via a documentary film crew's cameras. (6 episodes)
19) Black Adder I
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Set during the really dark part of the Dark Ages, these episodes chronicle the wickedly funny misadventures of the terminally treacherous Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh (alias The Black Adder).
Series
Publisher
EastWestDVD
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
None
Description
"The second Lucy series follows the adventures of the widow Lucy as she grapples with the comic complications of life on her own and with her job working as the personal secretary to the impatient and grumpy banker Mr. Mooney."--Container.