A regular on "The Drew Carey Show" on ABC and the writer and star of a recent big-screen hair-care comedy called "The Big Tease," Mr. Ferguson is a leading contender for the title of World's Most Amusing Scot.
Schweiger is a Warner-connected player on the growing co-production circuit through which the US hopes to extend its foreign hold, and his 2007 community-care comedy Rabbit Without Ears and forthcoming action thriller The Guardians are both lined up for US remakes (though he's likely to direct, not star).
The internet's been ablaze with rumours that Radio 1's doyenne of dance music, Annie Mac, and UKG's finest DJ EZ, initially met on the set of CBBC's cuddly children-in-care comedy drama Tracy Beaker.
The new total for the 'who-cares?' comedy is now $62.6 million.
It's not the most appealing prospect for an evening's entertainment (does anyone care about comedy awards as much as comedians?), but Hill manages to turn it into a daffy and ultimately uplifting hour.
The most astonishing thing about "Daddy Day Care," a comedy that would have to work harder even to justify the appellation uninspired, is that a kick in the groin is now a joke for toddlers.
If you're unfamiliar with JB Smoove, then you obviously don't care about comedy, racial stereotypes, or America.
Although Abrams made his screenwriting debut with the 1990 Arthur Hiller comedy Taking Care Of Business, his most significant subsequent success came on the small screen.
To test the limits of the barter system, I presented the calm, bespectacled Molasses employee on duty with three books whose resale value could accurately be described as limited; a collection of Ronald Reagan's speeches, a 1993 book about the health care crisis and "Hitler Laughing: Comedy in the Third Reich".
Sikov, the author of books on Billy Wilder and American film comedy, takes care to balance the horror stories with testimony from those who loved Sellers and loved working with him, and a book that could have been sensational is fair and thorough.
Though Abrams grew up around the periphery of the entertainment industry – and sold his first treatment, for the Jim Belushi comedy Taking Care of Business, while still in college – he says he learned to inject a personal element to his work while spending a decade as a screenwriting hack in the 90s.
