What year was the comedy team who wrote A Local Book For Local People formed?
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A Local Book for Local People A Local Book For Local People is a book by the British comedy team The League of Gentlemen. It is similar to comedy books by Monty Python and The Goodies in that it is a collection of loose material collected in a scrap book format. The material is connected by Tubbs, who has found the various snippets on the moors.
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The League of Gentlemen The League of Gentlemen is an English comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England based on Alston, Cumbria. It follows the lives of dozens of bizarre townspeople, most of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995.
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New Kids New Kids is a Dutch comedy sketch show about a group of anti-social youths from Maaskantje, a village in the southern province of North Brabant. It was created by Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil.
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The Flying Pigs The Flying Pigs are a musical sketch comedy team based in Aberdeen in the North-East of Scotland that has received some UK-wide coverage due to their BBC Scotland radio show 'Desperate Fishwives'".
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The Doubleclicks The Doubleclicks are a nerd-folk musical duo based in Portland, Oregon, consisting of sisters Angela Webber (on guitar, ukulele, or cat keyboard) and Aubrey Turner (cello). They are known for performing nerd-friendly comedy music, including songs about Dungeons & Dragons, dinosaurs, and other similar themes.
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The Mighty Boosh The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy troupe featuring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding. Developed from three stage shows and a six-episode radio series, it has since spawned a total of 20 television episodes for BBC Three which aired from 2003 to 2007, and two live tours of the UK, as well as two live shows in the United States. The first television series is set in a zoo operated by Bob Fossil, the second in a flat and the third in a second hand shop in Dalston called Nabootique.
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Dynamite Kablammo Dynamite Kablammo (also referred to as DK) is a sketch comedy group based in the San Fernando Valley, established in 2006 by Greg Kaczynski, Matt DeNoto, and Candida Rodriguez. Dana DeRuyck, Dane Biren and Meredith Rensa are also members. DeNoto and Kaczynski write the shows with DeRuyck occasionally contributing.
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Are You Dave Gorman? Are You Dave Gorman? is the title of a stage show by the British documentary comedian Dave Gorman and the book of the same name, co-written by Gorman and Danny Wallace. The BBC television series "The Dave Gorman Collection"— Gorman's first television show—was based on the show. The original show was created for the 2000 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was nominated for a prestigious Perrier award. An extended version of the show was taken to the West End, then to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (where it was nominated for a Barry Award), the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado (where it won the Jury Award for Best One Person Show) and finally to New York where it ran for more than three months and was named Best Comedy Show of 2001 by "Time Out" New York.
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Wheeler &amp; Woolsey Wheeler & Woolsey were an American comedy double act who performed together in comedy films from the 1920s until Robert Woolsey's death in 1938. The team comprised Bert Wheeler (1895–1968) of New Jersey and Robert Woolsey (1888–1938) of California.
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Allen &amp; Grier Allen & Grier is a folk rock parody duo that in 1963 released the comedy album "Better To Be Rich Than Ethnic" on Vee Jay Records. The duo consisted of musician Jake Holmes as Allen and his wife Katherine "Kay" Holmes as Grier. The two met at Bennington College and decided to write songs that mocked the popular folk music of the time. The result was an album that, according to interviews Jake Holmes has given, earned the pair the label "the most tasteless folk group ever" from Pete Seeger.
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Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon are a British comedy writing team. They were head sketch writers on BBC Radio 4’s "Jo Caulfield Won’t Shut Up" and BBC1′s "Live and Kicking", and also wrote the TV comedy shows "Slightly Filthy" (LWT) and "The Ornate Johnsons’ Edwardian Spectacular" (BBC4). Yet their main work is in the theatre. Their plays include "Spy", "Moonlight over India", "Eurovision", "Seven Studies in Salesmanship","The Opinion Makers", "Those Magnificent Men" and the multiple award-winning "Big Daddy Vs Giant Haystacks".
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Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords is a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series that aired for two seasons on HBO. They used to refer to themselves as "New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo", but now speak of themselves as "the almost award-winning fourth-most-popular folk duo in New Zealand."
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Funny Times (newspaper) Funny Times is an American humor newspaper founded by the husband and wife team of Raymond Lesser and Susan Wolpert in 1985. Each issue is organized into sections such as "Relationships", "Dogs", "Politics", "Current Events", and others. The categories change somewhat from issue to issue.
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The Armstrong &amp; Miller Show The Armstrong and Miller Show is a British sketch comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. It features the double act Armstrong and Miller and a number of notable scriptwriters including Andy Hamilton, co-creator of "Outnumbered", and Jeremy Dyson, co-creator of "The League of Gentlemen". It has run for three series and been nominated for two BAFTAs, winning one.
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Da Yoopers Da Yoopers is a traveling comedy show and musical group from Ishpeming, Michigan. They are known primarily for their humorous songs and skits, most of which center on life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The band's name includes the term "Yooper," slang for residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the use of "da" instead of "the" is typical of the Yooper dialect.
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Robin Driscoll Robin Driscoll is a British actor and writer, best known as a writer of "Mr. Bean". He and Rowan Atkinson are close friends; he appeared with Rowan Atkinson in "Laughing Matters" (1992) - Visual Comedy, a documentary on the mechanics of visual humour.
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Comedy for Koby Comedy for Koby is a bi-annual tour of Israel featuring some of America's top stand-up comedians. The tour, which was first launched in 2008, benefits The Koby Mandell Foundation, an Israeli non-profit organization that works with victims of terror attacks. Comedy for Koby is a project of Stand Up for Israel and is exclusively produced by DJW Productions. Stand up comic Avi Liberman founded Stand Up for Israel and is responsible for recruiting the fellow comedians on the tour.
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The Dregs The Dregs are a comedy folk band of six performers based in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota. Live performances are partially improvised. They perform around the Midwest and have recorded eight albums.
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Kings of Comedy (Australian TV series) Kings of Comedy is an Australian comedy documentary series for blokey men, aired on Nine Network. It gets repeated annually during the TV Week Logies after party. Contains scenes from Dave Allen, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Graham Kennedy, and The Two Ronnies.
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Esmonde and Larbey John Gilbert Esmonde (21 March 1937 – 10 August 2008) and Robert Edward "Bob" Larbey (24 June 1934 – 31 March 2014), better known as Esmonde and Larbey, were a successful British television comedy scriptwriting duo from the 1960s to the 1990s, creating popular sitcoms and hit comedy shows, such as "Please Sir!" (1968–72), "The Good Life" (1975–78), "Get Some In!" (1975–78), "Ever Decreasing Circles" (1984-89) and "Brush Strokes" (1986–91).
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America Zarigani America Zarigani (アメリカザリガニ ) is a Japanese comedy duo formed in 1994 by Tetsuya Yanagihara (born September 1, 1972) and Yoshiyuki Hirai (born March 12, 1973).
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Writer's Inc Writer's Inc was a sketch comedy troupe who won the 1982 Edinburgh Comedy Award, then known as the Perrier Award for sponsorship reasons. The troupe consisted of Gary Adams, Steve Brown, Vicki Pile, Trevor McCallum, Helen Murry, Jamie Rix, and Nick Wilton, with additional material by Kim Fuller.