Sentence examples for based on comedian from inspiring English sources

The Phoenix will rise again!" Liverpool-born Robbins plays Den Perry in the show, which is based on comedian Peter Kay's television series of the same name.

King Candy's vocal stylings are based on comedian Ed Wynn.

Likely the most anticipated project is "One Mississippi", a dark comedy, loosely based on comedian Tig Notaro's life.

Bea is not only based on the comedian Belle Barth, she borrows some of her material.

In Los Angeles this year he directed "The Pee-Wee Herman Show," a play based on the comedian's 1981 HBO special and CBS Saturday-morning television series.

Since Mr. Romano had never acted before, Mr. Rosenthal said, he wrote a pilot based on the comedian's actual family situation to make him comfortable.

The case, in 1964, was based on the comedian's act at a Greenwich Village nightclub in which, as usual, he had couched his sharp social satire in sexually and anatomically graphic language.

Fassbender, the star of X-Men and Hunger, is recognised for Frank, based on cult comedian Frank Sidebottom, in which the actor's face is largely obscured by an outsized papier-mache head.

She's clearly based on the gruff, dirty comedian Moms Mabley, and her behavior shows where Buddy Love comes from, especially when the two meet and she sizes him up like a prime cut.

The latter show, loosely based on the adolescence of comedian Chris Rock, explored this cliche effectively because it implicated whiteness.

To determine which comedians raked in the most money over the 12-month span, we turned to the 2007 edition of Forbes Most Powerful Celebrityy list, which ranks actors, athletes, models and comedians based on their media exposure (magazine covers as well as TV and radio mentions), Web presence (number of Google hits) and earnings.