...Miranda (BBC2 Monday) and The Thick of It (BBC2 Saturday) - had bourgeois anxieties at their heart this past week, too, but as comedy. Miranda (Hart), as brilliant in the second episode as in the first, blames boarding school for her farcical combination of...

...1958 and was educated in the US before going to Cambridge University in the 1970s. She began her career performing and writing comedy for Cambridge Footlights. Her first novel, Tales from the Norse's Mouth, written for children, came out in 1994. Her books for...

...Theatre Club, by the next morning, and that's high praise. The comedy of George S. Kaufman, who wrote this 1927 send-up of acting...hullabaloo to perfection, and the antics of all the physical comedy don't upend the quieter moments of family intimacy.The Cavendishes...

...com, a social networking site based on comedy.Marwan Juma, the head of Intaj, Jordan's...Mr Hakim says he and his partner "take comedy truly very seriously" but they have not...channels; we also do scripts for short comedy sketches - there are lots of ways," says...

...Theatre Club, by the next morning, and that's high praise. The comedy of George S. Kaufman, who wrote this 1927 send-up of acting...hullabaloo to perfection, and the antics of all the physical comedy don't upend the quieter moments of family intimacy.The Cavendishes...

...the free-diving couple plant deep-sea sonars.The movie is part comedy, part horror-show, part thriller - all-parts engrossing. Will...team of salesmen exhorting us not to listen to salesmen.Folksy comedy and light-touch satire are the styles of Romania's Tales from...

...free-diving couple plant deep-sea sonars. The movie is part comedy, part horror-show, part thriller - all-parts engrossing. Will...team of salesmen exhorting us not to listen to salesmen.Folksy comedy and light-touch satire are the styles of Romania's Tales from...

...tabloid headline on a counter proclaims "Angelina to adopt a vampire baby". Contemporary American society has been imagined anew, with all its crazinesses and its grandeurs. It's how comedy should be.john.lloyd@ft.comJohn Lloyd: The appeal of 'Spooks'

...plane, in the phrase of a leading resources investor.This has been called the Beverly Hillbillies effect, after the television comedy about a Texan family that became oil millionaires overnight but ran into trouble adopting the norms and manners of American...

...some philosophers have long contended. Comedy and tragedy are the same thing. They are...JFK, Born on the Fourth of July) - is a comedy with the tragedy, though vast and underlying...Lancaster's Elmer Gantry. The film is a comedy, yes. But you need turn it only a subtly...