On "Laugh-In," Mr. Sues was part of an ensemble cast in a comedy-sketch show that prefigured "Saturday Night Live" and helped jumpstart the careers of stars like Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin and Flip Wilson.
Twentieth Century Fox has sent a cease-and-desist letter to an independent filmmaker who parodied its movie "Cast Away" in a comedy titled "Miss Cast Away," which features a 10-minute appearance by Michael Jackson.
In 1985, Ms. Reed-Amini was cast in "227," a comedy series about the residents of an apartment building in Washington that focused on the character of Mary Jenkins, an engaging busybody (played by Marla Gibbs), her family and their neighbors.
The role has established Louis-Dreyfus as the all-time most Primetime Emmy Award decorated actress in terms of regular cast roles in a comedy series (i.e., not counting guest acting Emmys).
Aisling Bea, the comedian and actress, has been cast in a forthcoming comedy on NBC, the American television network.
He earned his Actors' Equity card within months, faster than many of his peers, by doing children's theater ("a 'Swiss Family Robinson' production set in America — awful stuff") and within a couple of years was cast in a new comedy "Gemini," which ran at Playwrights Horizons and Circle Rep before moving to Broadway in 1977 for an unusually long four-year run.
DINING recently at the Bird and Bottle Inn, a pedigreed hostelry with enormous physical charm, I felt as if I had been unwillingly cast in a restoration comedy, the sort of farcical drama in which characters with names like Mistress Flummery and Mr. Botchit conspire to make a mockery of propriety.
That same year, he legally changed his name to Mickey McGuire when he was cast in a series of comedy shorts of the same name, based on a popular comic strip.
Theater in Singapore usually gets a lot of leeway because of its limited reach, but having an all-male cast in a tangled romantic comedy is proving a bit more controversial because of the penal code.
Kuehl — "full of personality," by her description — was soon cast in a 1949 radio comedy.
