I'd thought we had left the black comedy behind at the funeral and were on to the serious stuff.
David Angell, who was killed aged 54 in the terror attck on the US, was the comedy writer behind Cheers and Frasier.
They settled on Phil McIntyre, the comedy mastermind behind the West End juggernaut We Will Rock You and hired Jamie Lloyd, 32, a promising director who already had hit musicals Passion and Piaf to his name.
4. Matt Stone and Trey Parker What started as two college buddies trying to crack each other up became the comedy genius behind South Park, BASEketball, The Book of Mormon, and others.
Drum roll, please: The creators of the McCain Girls turn out to be the comedy team behind 23/6, a five-month-old Web site owned by an affiliate of IAC/InterActiveCorp that parodies the news.
The creators of the "McCain Girls" turn out to be the comedy team behind 23/6, a five-month-old Web site owned by an affiliate of the IAC/InterActive Corporation that parodies the news.
@alannucci The comedy genius behind The Thick of It has been busy posting trailers and teasers for the latest series of the political satire, as well as sharing his views with nearly 25,000 followers: he's "incalculably depressed" at the thought of a Cameron government, and thinks the "gob-hammeringly insensitive" Ben Bradshaw proves we are entering "the Dawn of the UberTwat".
Monday's Times profiles the comedy writer behind the much-talked-about Clinton-Obama debate parody and much more on "Saturday Night Live": Like many of his fellow Americans, James Downey was a bit surprised to see Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend, satirically protesting the treatment she has received from the news media.
He has seen extraordinary success - as one half of the comedy duo behind Little Britain, as a cross-channel swimmer and more recently on the West End stage and as a novelist.
