The Best Pairs Right Now
Matt Walliams and Matt Lucas
Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin
USA
30 Rockis an Americantelevision comedyseries about the goings on behind the camera of the fictional livesketch comedy series, TGS with Tracy Jordan. The show was created by Tina Fey,The series has an ensemble cast which currently consists of ten regular cast members, including Fey The series main cast consists of Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer. The show also has a cast of eight secondary characters.
30 Rock has been a critical success, winning several major awards including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series,[8] the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series, the Producers Guild of America Award for Producer of the Year in Episodic Comedy Series and a Peabody Award.Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding
UK
The Mighty Boosh, colloquially referred to as The Boosh,is the collective name for the creators of the British television situation comedy also entitled The Mighty Boosh. Written by and starring comediansJulian Barratt and Noel Fielding, the show first aired on BBC Three in 2004, and thus far a total of 20 episodes have been made over three series. Developed from three stage shows and a radio series, it has since spawned a live tour of the UK. A forthcoming album of their music and another live tour are also planned.
Russell Brand and Matt Morgan U.K.
The Russell Brand Showis a British radio show, hosted by Russell Brand, that is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Saturday nights between 9:00 pm and 11:00 pm. His radio slot was transferred to Radio 2 on November 18, 2006 from BBC 6 Music.
Symbiosis/ genius
Russell Brand is joined every week by Matt Morgan. The radio show often features a phone call with Noel Gallagher of Oasis
- who, since the show has moved to LA, has been in the studio - and
discussions revolving around listeners' emails, text messages or phone
calls. The show is completed with a poem summing up the evening's
events by the resident poet Mr. Gee. A previous segment 'Cry For Help'
consisted of listeners phoning and asking Brand and Morgan for advice. The Boob considers Matt Morgan to be the best comedy strait man out there right now, and Russell Brand to be one of the best comics out there. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/brand/
USA
Hoops and YoYo
USA
Hoops & Yoyo are a pair of animated characters featured on Hallmark Cards. The website features E-cards, animated episodes, an "Ask hoops&yoyo" section, desktop and phone wallpapers, audio snippets, IM icons, fan photos, interactive monthly calendars, blog, podcast, and merchandise available for purchase.
The storylines center around two main characters: Hoops, a pink cat, and Yoyo, a green bunny, and also feature a few other humorous characters joining them. It shows their usual antics in a "Slice of Life" matter.
Created byBob Holt and Mike Adair.-Hall mark owns the rights to characters so there is not alot of info about these guys.
Bob Holt and Mike Adair are the writers, artists, and voices of "Hoops
and Yoyo," Hallmark's newest characters. They record themselves in a
converted office at Hallmark.
Their creations go online as e-cards or straight to the store shelves as sound cards.
The funny stuff comes from Shoebox. While Hallmark has more than 16,000 employees worldwide, Shoebox has fewer than 50.
On many mornings, Shoebox writers get together and read through
their card ideas. Some come out of thin air; they're spur-of-the-moment
creations, while others are inspired by funny photographs.-Hallmark
French and SaundersUK
These two have been together twenty years and are supposedly breaking up. The Boob hopes it isn't so, these two have been the only female comedy team out there!
French & Saundersis a Britishsketch comedytelevision show written by and starring Emmy and BAFTA Award-winner Jennifer Saunders and BAFTA Award-nominee Dawn French, and also the name by which the performers are known on the rare occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
Widely popular in the early 1990s, the show was given one of the highest budgets in BBC history to create detailed spoofssatires of pop culture, movies, celebrities and art. French and Saunders continue to film holiday specials for the BBC, and both have been successful starring in their own shows. Saunders won an Emmy, a BAFTA Award and an international acclaim for writing and starring in Absolutely Fabulous, which lead to roles in the American sitcoms Friends and Roseanne. She won an American People's Choice Award for voicing the evil Fairy Godmother in Shrek 2, but more recently she has written and starred another two hit sitcoms, Jam and Jerusalem (where Dawn French had a role) and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle. Other work includes being the face of Barclays Bank and BBC America, while French starred in The Vicar of Dibley. and
The show features an unusual style of humour, where many otherwise normal parody sketches are permeated with an underlying theme (which somewhat breaks the fourth wall) of the jealousy that French has for Saunders, and the superiority complex of Saunders.
In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, they were voted amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
Mitchell and Webb UK
This led to their own series, The Mitchell and Webb Situation, on Play UK, and jobs writing for Armstrong and Miller, the star-packed Big Train, and Bruiser.
But it wasn't until 2003, when new sitcom Peep Show hit television screens, that David and Robert became well-known names. As Mark Corrigan, David reached out to all those middle-aged men in a twentysomething's body, who believe drugs are boring and systems are necessary if society is to function at all.
On his own, David has appeared as a debased technical wizard on the radio sitcom Think the Unthinkable, as a useless posh surgeon in BBC2 sitcom Doctors and Nurses and as himself in Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive.
Classic Boobs
The Sifl and Olly Show was a TV comedy that used sock puppets, animation, and music. Musicians Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco, friends since childhood, created and performed the series
The origins of theThe Sifl & Olly Show go back to the 80's. As kids, Crocco and Lynch would make-up and perform funny songs and sketches to entertain themselves. They remained friends through High School and College, even though they saw little of each other while they attended Kent State University. Lynch left Kent State and the duo were separated for a few years, but they reunited in Nashville, TN in the 90s and recorded the comedy album Camp Sunny Side Up on a 4-Track. During this period they were also constantly recording random funny conversations, interviews, sketches, and songs. Soon after Lynch moved to England to attend the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, but the friends continued to make funny recordings and send them to each other.
In 1995, while Lynch was still in Liverpool, he found some broken 4-Track tapes and repaired them. These tapes contained conversations and material intended for his and Crocco's second comedy album (which they never recorded) and he decided to make something using these tapes as a Christmas present for Crocco. Lynch had been inspired by a series of British commercials by Aardman Studios and had hoped to do stop-action clay animation, but he didn't have the money or the equipment for it. Instead, he made puppets out of his own socks and a large plastic sunflower and recorded a video of himself acting out their tapes with the puppets. Lynch chose the name for the puppets from a fake commercial Crocco had made for one of their recordings, and Sifl & Olly were born.
Lynch sent copies to MTV and MTV Europe and although MTV America rejected them, MTV Europe liked them. In 1996, MTV-UK began airing Sifl & Olly clips between music videos as "idents." The popularity of the clips led to MTV America offering a half-hour format called The Sifl & Olly Show in July 1998. The show aired late at night, but later on they were moved to the evenings.
In the first season, clips of Sifl and Olly were mixed with music videos. Whenever the show was aired again, the music videos would be removed, leaving only the comedy clips. The show gained a cult following, but was cancelled after the second season. A third season was recorded and MTV promised to release the episodes on the Internet, but never did. The lost episodes were eventually released on DVD.
Despite its cancellation, Sifl and Olly still appear along with some other characters in occasional episodes of Liam Lynch's podcast, Lynchland.
Wile E. Coyote (also known simply as "The Coyote") and the Road Runner are cartoon characters from a series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, created by animation directorChuck Jones in 1948 for Warner Brothers. The characters went on to star in a long-running series of theatrical cartoon shorts and occasional made-for-television cartoon. The E never refers to a name within the context of the cartoon, but a 1975 comic has it standing for 'Ethelbert'.
The Coyote has separately appeared as an occasional antagonist in Bugs Bunny shorts. While he is generally silent in the Coyote-Road Runner shorts, he speaks with a refined accent in these solo outings. The Road Runner vocalizes only with a signature sound, "meep meep", and an occasional tongue noise. Wile E. was initially voiced by Mel Blanc and the Road Runner byPaul Julian.
Ralph Kramden, played by Jackie Gleason, is a bus driver for the fictional Gotham Bus Company. He is never seen driving a bus (except in publicity photos), but is shown multiple times at the bus depot. Ralph is frustrated by his lack of success, and often develops schemes designed to earn him and his wife a quick fortune. Ralph is very quick-tempered, and frequently resorts to insults and hollow threats of physical violence.
Edward "Ed" Norton, played by Art Carney, is a New York Citysewer worker and Ralph's best friend. He is considerably more good-natured than Ralph, but nonetheless trades insults with him on a regular basis. Ed (typically called "Norton" by Ralph) often gets mixed up in Ralph's schemes, and his carefree and rather dimwitted nature usually results in raising Ralph's ire, while Ralph often showers him with verbal abuse, shoves him around, and throws him out of the apartment when Ed irritates him. Ed and Ralph are both members of the fictional Raccoon Lodge.
Due to its enduring popularity, The Honeymooners has been referenced numerous times in American pop culture, and has also served as the inspiration behind other television shows. The show also introduced memorable catchphrases into American culture, such as "Bang, zoom, straight to the moon!", "One of these days...one of these days...POW, right in the kisser!" and "Baby, you're the greatest".
The show was parodied in a series of animated Looney Tunes shorts, in which the principal characters are depicted as mice and Ralph's "big dream" is to get enough cheese to impress Alice. These cartoons are "The Honey-Mousers" (1956)
