But I always assumed that, as British TV continues its campaign to replicate the success of The Daily Show, the effort would involve comedians going serious ish) rather than serious newspeople showing us their funny side.
But they are now within £20,000 of the target, helped by a series of fundraising events, including a special show involving comedian Omid Djalili.
The episode also features a parody of the song "The Candy Man" and an incident involving comedian Redd Foxx.
The incident is one of several recent confrontations between comedians and audience members, including another drink-throwing incident involving comedian Tammy Pescatelli and the Daniel Tosh rape joke controversy.
But he and Farrow, actress Maureen O'Sullivan's daughter who later became involved with comedian Woody Allen, did not last long together.
Their accounts varied, but all involved the comedian non-consensually masturbating in their presence or while speaking to them on the phone, often in the context of business meetings or while on set.
Historically, they used to involve a comedian standing on an upturned tub (a Bütt) telling a jokey story in rhyming iambic pentameter.
2 BROKE GIRLS (CBS, Monday) One of two new sitcoms involving the comedian Whitney Cummings, this is the one in which she doesn't appear (she created it, with Michael Patrick King of "Sex and the City," and is a writer and executive producer).
Partly thanks to a massive marketing campaign involving popular comedian Christoph Maria Herbst, Look Who's Back (Er ist wieder da), with its cover depicting Hitler's block-like side-parted hair and toothbrush moustache, has sold more than 1.4m copies in print and audiobook in Germany.
Board members and residents have also discussed plans to get some of the district's more famous alumni involved, like the comedian Eddie Murphy or Chuck D, the rap star.
