In his shows, Coogan, like David, has accentuated the negative and explored the comedy of embarrassment.
Having explored the comedy of pre-marital sex in The Liver Birds, Carla Lane flirted with extra-marital liaisons in Butterflies (1978-83), in which Wendy Craig never quite betrays her dentist husband with a businessman she meets in the park, and The Mistress (1985-87), which starred Felicity Kendal as the long-time lover of a married man.
We launched Manzine in 2008 to explore the comedy of errors that is the modern male experience, its confusions and complexities.
With persuasive intensity, Wood's second collection of essays explores the "comedy of forgiveness" as a way of engaging sympathetically with fictional characters, and shows how language turns life into literature.
The half-hour scripted series "Survivor's Remorse," is set in the world of professional basketball and, according to the series description, "explores the comedy and drama of an experience that everyone reads about but few understand — what truly happens when you make it out.
But ever since his first major work, Rien de Rien – a piece created in 2000, exploring the comedy, colour and confusion of living in a multicultural world – Cherkaoui's chief concern has been to tell multiple stories, to unlock a larger resonance.
The script by Tom MacRae and Guy Andrews explores the natural comedy of the gulf between the classes.
It's the worst thing anybody ever did," C.K. said after explaining that he was a giant fan of "The West Wing" and much of Sorkin's other work, but that "Studio 60," a show that explored the world of comedy, missed the mark so much that the stand-up comedian couldn't help but enjoy every minute of it.
Both of these things happen this season, which finds a renewed emphasis on not only creating comedy but exploring the industry of comedy (the second episode sees Louie hosting an open mic night with the most odd set you've ever seen).
6. KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (Robert Hamer, 1949) Ealing comedies explored the dark underside of postwar Britain, and this one revelled in homicidal impulses encouraged by the class system.
He's best known for "Bad Jews," a trenchant four-character comedy that explored the fault lines of Reform Judaism.
