What paper was presented that includes comediennes that were also TV hosts?
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Sarah Blacher Cohen Sarah Blacher Cohen (June 11, 1936 in Appleton, Wisconsin, – November 10, 2008 in Albany, New York) was a writer, scholar, and playwright, and a professor at SUNY Albany for 30 years. Her area of specialty was Jewish American fiction. Her published books include "Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature", "Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter" (1974), and "Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art: From Levity to Liturgy". She edited "From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screen" (Jewish Literature and Culture Series), "Making a Scene: The Contemporary Drama of Jewish-American Women", and "Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor". Her plays include "The Ladies Locker Room", and "Molly Picon's Return Engagement", a biographical play with music on the star of Yiddish theater. She collaborated with Joanne Koch, starting in 1989 on "Sophie, Totie, and Belle", a musical on performers Sophie Tucker, Totie Fields, and Belle Barth. 'She and Joanne Koch also co-authored the plays "Danny Kaye: Supreme Court Jester", "Soul Sisters", "Henrietta Szold: Woman of Valor", an adaptation of Saul Bellow stories entitled "Saul Bellow's Stories Onstage: The Old System and a Silver Dish", and the multicultural musical "Soul Sisters". Cohen and Koch co-edited an anthology of ten plays "Shared Stages: Ten American Dramas of Blacks and Jews", including "Driving Miss Daisy", "Fires in the Mirror", and "Soul Sisters". She collaborated with Isaac Bashevis Singer on the off-Broadway play "Schlemiel the First". Cohen also gave talks and delivered papers, including "The Unkosher Comediennes: From Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers." She was married to Gary Cohen. She died of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease on November 10, 2008 age 72.
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Joan Rivers Joan Alexandra Molinsky (June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014), widely known as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host. She was noted for her often controversial comedic persona—alternatingly self-deprecating or sharply acerbic, especially toward celebrities and politicians.
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TV Guide Award The "TV Guide" Award was an annual award created by the editors of "TV Guide" magazine, as a readers poll to honor outstanding programs and performers in the American television industry. The awards were presented until 1964. The "TV Guide" Award was revived 1999–2001.
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Totie Fields Totie Fields (May 7, 1930 – August 2, 1978) was an American comedienne.
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Mary Kennedy Mary Kennedy (Irish: "Máire Ní Chinnéide" ; born 4 October 1954) is an Irish writer, television personality and former newscaster. She presented Eurovision Song Contest 1995 from the Point Theatre in Dublin. She has also presented her own Saturday night chat show called "Kennedy", a precursor to "Saturday Night with Miriam". Kennedy was co-presenter of the magazine programme "Open House" with Marty Whelan. She has previously presented "Up for the Match" and the People of the Year Awards. She is now co-presenter of "Nationwide" with Anne Cassin, having been so for a time with Michael Ryan.
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Saturday Live (Irish TV series) Saturday Live is a televised talk show hosted by various guest presenters and broadcast live on Saturday nights. The show was broadcast during the autumn-spring season (October - April) and was created to fill the vacant Saturday night slot after the departure of "The Late Late Show" from Saturday to Friday nights. It was first broadcast on RTÉ One on Saturday 25 October 1986. "Saturday Live" featured guest interviews and live music from guest music groups and featured a mix of serious discussion and light chat aimed at a younger audience than its main rival, "The Late Late Show". The original programme ended on 11 April 1988.
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Radio personality A radio personality (American English) or radio presenter (British English), commonly referred to as a "disc jockey" or "DJ" for short, is a person who has an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality that hosts a radio show is also known as a radio host, and in India and Pakistan as a radio jockey. Radio personalities who introduce and play individual selections of recorded music are known as disc jockeys. The term has evolved to also describe a person who mixes a continuous flow of recorded music in real time. Broadcast radio personalities may include talk radio hosts, AM/FM radio show hosts, and satellite radio program hosts. Notable radio personalities include pop music radio hosts Martin Block, Alan Freed, Dick Clark, Delilah Luke, Ameen Sayani, Wolfman Jack, and Casey Kasem, shock jocks such as Don Imus and Howard Stern, as well as sports talk hosts such as Mike Francesa and political talk hosts such as Rush Limbaugh.
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Brooke Gladstone Brooke Gladstone is an American journalist, author and media analyst. She is co-host (with Bob Garfield) and managing editor of the WNYC radio program "On the Media", and has been a contributor to "The Washington Post", "The Boston Globe", "The Observer", and "Slate". Gladstone lectures at universities and conferences and has appeared on PBS's "Bill Moyers Journal" and CNN's "Reliable Sources" (and once filled in for Charlie Rose on PBS's "Charlie Rose Show".) She is widely quoted as an expert on press trends.
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Christmas Night with the Stars Christmas Night with the Stars was a television show broadcast each Christmas night by the BBC from 1958 to 1972 (with the exception of 1961, 1965 and 1966). The show was hosted each year by a leading star of BBC TV and featured specially made short seasonal editions (typically about 10 minutes long) of the previous year's most popular BBC sitcoms and light entertainment programs. Most of the variety segments no longer exist in accordance with the BBC's policy of wiping at the time, prevalent into the late 1970s.
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Broadcast journalism Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are "broadcast", that is, published by electrical methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. Broadcast methods include radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, and Internet) and the World Wide Web. Such media disperse pictures (static and moving), visual text and sounds.
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Maury Povich Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich (born January 17, 1939) is an American television presenter, best known for hosting the tabloid talk show "Maury".
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Phil Donahue Phillip John "Phil" Donahue (born December 21, 1935) is an American media personality, writer, and film producer best known as the creator and host of "The Phil Donahue Show." The television program, also known as "Donahue", was the first talk show format that included audience participation. The show had a 29-year run on national television in America that began in Dayton, Ohio, and ended in New York City in 1996.
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The O. Henry Playhouse The O. Henry Playhouse was an early American anthology television series which featured television adaptations of short stories written by 19th-century author O. Henry and primarily set in New York City. The series was both hosted and narrated by Thomas Mitchell, who portrayed the title character, and featured several television and film stars during its run such as Maureen Stapleton, DeForest Kelley, Lisa Montell, Otto Kruger, Max Showalter and Ernest Borgnine. The series was syndicated and initially ran from January 23 to May 25, 1957, and its final episode aired on November 19 of that year.
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Television Playhouse Television Playhouse is a half-hour American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC. The series aired from December 4, 1947 to April 11, 1948, generally appearing every third Sunday during its run. The program was in cooperation with the National Theater and Academy, a federally sponsored theater group, and featured live performances of plays, some of which were by well-known authors.
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Comedy Central Presents Comedy Central Presents is the network's main half-hour program which highlights either one or a series of stand-up comedians each episode. In 2011, the series ended and Comedy Central replaced it with the revamped "The Half Hour" 30-minute stand-up specials.
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The Tavis Smiley Show The Tavis Smiley Show is an American public broadcasting radio talk show. A television show, simply titled "Tavis Smiley", is a late-night television program on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Both shows feature Tavis Smiley as host.
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Theatre-Five Theatre-Five (aka Theater-Five or Theatre 5) was a radio drama series, presented by ABC, between 1964 and 1965. The series used an anthology format, presented a number of short (20-minute) radio plays, across a number of genres, a number of which reflected topical issues contemporary with its airing.
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TV Week TV Week is an Australian magazine, issued weekly, first published as a Melbourne-only publication in December 1957 (as "TV-Radio Week"), and bearing a strong affiliation to television station Channel Nine GTV.
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Le Petit Journal (TV program) Le Petit Journal is a French news and entertainment television program that airs every weekday on Canal+, presented by Cyrille Eldin. It was hosted by journalist Yann Barthès from its beginnings in 2004 through to June 2016. The program initially aired as a segment of "Le Grand Journal" until 2011, when it became a separate program. Eldin took over the show after Barthès left Canal+ to start a new programme on TF1 named "Quotidien".
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Living Newspaper Living Newspaper is a term for a theatrical form presenting factual information on current events to a popular audience. Historically, Living Newspapers have also urged social action (both implicitly and explicitly) and reacted against naturalistic and realistic theatrical conventions in favor of the more direct, experimental techniques of agitprop theatre, including the extensive use of multimedia.
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Newsnight Newsnight is a weekday BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians. The programme's regular presenters are currently Kirsty Wark, Emily Maitlis, and Evan Davis.
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Lorraine Thomson Lorraine Thomson is a Canadian dancer, television host, television producer and one of the co-founders, with Pierre Berton, of the ACTRA Awards. She was the first dancer hired by the CBC for their first televised variety show, "The Big Revue", and made regular appearances as a dancer and actor on many television shows in the first decade of Canadian broadcasting. She turned to radio hosting the 1960s, and then television hosting in the 1970s for CBC's "The Naked Mind", "The Weaker(?) Sex" and "V.I.P." She was the one of the first women to produce variety shows on CBC, and for 18 years, she was the program coordinator for "Front Page Challenge". She was nominated for several national awards for her work both in front of and behind the camera.