That Was the Week That Was, informally TWTWTW or TW3, is a satirical television comedy programme on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. It was devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by David Frost. An American version by the same name aired on NBC from 1964 to 1965, also featuring Frost.
The programme is considered a significant element of the satire boom in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. It broke ground in comedy through lampooning the establishment and political figures. Its broadcast coincided with coverage of the politically charged Profumo affair and John Profumo, the politician at the centre of the affair, became a target for derision. TW3 was first broadcast on Saturday 24 November 1962.
Pravý opak typické americké rodiny. Jsou excentričtí, bohatí a se zalíbením ve všem groteskním a děsivém. Nikdy je netrápilo, že je lidé vnímají jako bizardní a strašidelnou rodinu. Naopak, sami se bojí "normálních" lidí.
Not Only... But Also is a 1960s BBC comedy series starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track.
The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.
Following the chronicles of the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf Garnett, a reactionary working-class man who holds racist and anti-socialist views.
A groundbreaking, splendidly silly, surreal sketch comedy series written by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman.
Nádherná a svobodná kavalkáda nonsensů, satirických skečů a britsky vykutálených slovních a situačních hříček od pánů, jejichž jména znějí skoro jako jména svatých - John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Michal Palin - doplněné animacemi velkého a divokého Terry Gilliama, zahajuje přehlídku odvážných, kteří souhlasili ocitnout se v jejich zářícím stínu.
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
"Why are you hiding in the hedge?" - a Swedish version of the satirist Lenny Bruce's exuberant humor, obscenities and social criticism, embodied by actor Jarl Kulle.
In the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio, suburban housewife Mary Hartman seeks the kind of domestic perfection promised by Reader’s Digest and TV commercials. Instead she finds herself suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: mass murders, low-flying airplanes and waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor.
Pod seriálem devíti půlhodinových parodií z nejrůznějších prostředí a společenských vrstev britského impéria jsou podepsáni Michael Palin a Terry Jones, dva tvůrci ze slavné montypythonovské šestky. „Střihli" si jej mezi natáčením Monty Pythonů samotných a vzali si na mušku všechno směšné, absurdní či prostě jen zvláštní z britského způsobu života: školství, zkostnatělou aristokracii, vojáckou tupost, fotbalové fanouškovství, pseudohrdinství... Nic nezůstalo ušetřeno ostří jejich pera. Michael Palin sám tu pak ztělesnil řadu postav (v některých příbězích dokonce několik zároveň), které všechny v české verzi neodolatelným způsobem namluvil Oldřich Kaiser.(Česká televize)
Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Perrin goes through a mid-life crisis and fakes his own death. Returning in disguise after various attempts at finding a 'new life', he gets his old job back and finds nothing has changed. He is eventually found out, and in the second series has success with a chain of shops selling useless junk. That becomes so successful that he feels he has created a monster and decides to destroy it. In the third and final series he has a dream of forming a commune which his long suffering colleagues help bring to reality. Unfortunately that also fails and he finds himself back in a job not unlike the one he originally had at Sunshine Desserts.
Os Trapalhões was a Brazilian comedy group and also a Brazilian television series created by Wilton Franco. Its members were Dedé Santana, Zacarias, Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó, that was played by Renato Aragão. The name Trapalhões is derived from the Portuguese verb atrapalhar, which means the opposite of helping, to do something the wrong way or to Those that confuse. The name is translated "Tramps" in English DVD subtitles. It was aired by Rede Globo from 1977 to 1999.
On March 18, 1990, Zacarias died due to respiratory failure, but the group and the series didn't come to an end until July 29, 1994, when Mussum died due to an unsuccessful heart transplant.
Quark is an American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin broadcast on NBC. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The series was cancelled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the spy spoof Get Smart.
The show was set on a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow operating out of United Galaxies Space Station Perma One in the year 2226. Adam Quark, the main character, works to clean up trash in space by collecting "space baggies" with his trusted and highly unusual crew.
In its short run, Quark satirized such science fiction as Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Flash Gordon. Three of the episodes were direct satires of Star Trek episodes.
The series won one Emmy Award nomination, for costume designer Grady Hunt's work in the episode "All the Emperor's Quasi-Norms, Part 2".
The complete series was released on DVD on October 14, 2008.
Agony is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981. It starred Maureen Lipman as a successful agony aunt but whose own personal life and marriage is a disaster. It was written by Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds. It was made for the ITV network by LWT.
Although a comedy, Agony sometimes dealt with issues that were seen as taboo at the time such as drug use, racism, abortion, interracial relationships, and swinging, and was the first British sitcom to portray a gay couple as non-camp, witty, intelligent and happy people. It also openly mocked the government, the ruling classes, and religion, and occasionally contained dark and dramatic storylines.
Classic sketch comedy show satirising the news and culture of the late 70s and early 80s which introduced Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson.
Rozdílem téměř dva a půl tisíce hlasů zvítězil James George Hacker ve svém volebním obvodu nad svými soupeři. O tom, že se stane ministrem nové vlády, by již nemělo být nejmenších pochyb. A ve hře je tolik zajímavých postů: místní hospodářství, zahraničí, zdravotnictví, energetika... Jim by si klidně troufl na všechny, spokojil by se i s tím nejméně významným. Jenomže kampaň na předáka strany vedl proti nynějšímu premiérovi, proto má takový nepříjemný pocit, že se mu tenhle jeho minulý postoj tak trochu vymstí. A zdá se, že ho jeho neblahé tušení nezklamalo. Jedno ministerstvo po druhém padá do klína některému jeho stranickému kolegovi a on pořád nic. Marně se vrhá ke každému telefonu, premiér nevolá. Co ještě zbývá? A zbývá vůbec něco? Ale ano, samozřejmě! Ministerstvo pro administrativní záležitosti! Co na tom, že je škodolibí televizní komentátoři označují za cosi na způsob politického hřbitova! Ministerstvo to je a Jim je odhodlán udělat na něm kus práce…
Arthur Dent je obyčejný, celkem nudný Pozemšťan, který nemá rád čtvrtky. Byl by jím i navždy zůstal, kdyby se neukázalo, že jeho nejlepší přítel Ford Prefect je mimozemšťan a planeta Země stojí v cestě výstavbě nového hyperprostorového obchvatu, takže má být zbourána. Arthur s Fordem se jako jediní zachrání a - vybaveni pouze nepostradatelným Stopařovým průvodcem po Galaxii a ručníky - jsou vrženi do nejztřeštěnějšího dobrodružství v dějinách všech paralelních vesmírů.
After a successful Canadian run as Second City TV on Global and SCTV on CBC, the cast packed up and moved to America (theoretically) when NBC offered them a timeslot under the title SCTV Network 90. With them, they brought their unique, quirky characters, their personalities, and the shows they had appeared on. Dick Blasucci had begun writing for the cast in their second series, SCTV, and joined them here, serving as a recurring straight man for the characters. Tony Rosato and Robin Duke wrote scripts at the beginning of the show as they had before, until quickly leaving to write and perform for Saturday Night Live. The appeal of SCTV Network 90, however, doesn't only come from the writing, but from the sheer wit of its legendary stars.
Komediální krimiseriál nabitý gagy, absurdním humorem a parodickými odkazy. Neohrožený detektiv Frank Drebin řeší případy s takovou samozřejmostí, že i James Bond vedle něj vypadá jako Martin Tomsa v podvlíkačkách. Rozbije mafiánský gang i auto. Zneškodní únosce, bombu i sexbombu. Vražedkyni strhne skoro všechny paruky a drogovému dealerovi masku. Zpívá, tančí. Popere se s nepřízní osudu i s vyděrači. Nic pro něj není překážkou, ani výhrůžky a popelnice. Pachatele odzbrojuje ručně, diváky humorem. Dostane ho až programový šéf ABC Tony Thomopoulos, který seriál po šestém díle předčasně ukončí s odůvodněním, že je jen pro pozorného diváka. Frank Drebin se však nevzdá a záhy se vrací v sérii Bláznivých střel.