comedy
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UK television personality Bill Oddie, best known for his role in the TV comedy series "The Goodies" and presenter of nature programmes, has died aged 85, his agent said Monday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
A product of the Cambridge Footlights, the cradle of so much post-war British comedy, he shot to fame in the 1970s as a member of the anarchic Goodies.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had pioneered a new brand of comedy, soothed postwar America’s psyche and made a nation laugh again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Marcello Hernández, Teyana Taylor and Andy Garcia star alongside the actor in this Netflix comedy about a 40-year-old who crashes a Miami bachelor party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Glenn Burke was always standing on the benches in the Dodgers clubhouse and doing stand-up comedy, reciting poetry, and dancing around.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
It doesn't have to be sport either - there are amazing dramas, comedies, music, children's shows and news coverage across the BBC, to mention just a few things.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
By the late teens he was directing comedies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
These kinds of comedies take skill and experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Classic romantic comedies might have convinced many viewers that these kinds of problems are relegated specifically to heterosexual culture.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
And it’s not the sort of unwanted of romantic comedies, where it means they’ll end up together in the end.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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