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Radio comedy series written by Paul Mayhew-Archer about actor Robert Wilson (John Gordon Sinclair) who is trying to make it in the business. In this episode (1 of series 2), Wilson (despite his Scottish...
Comedy western. The world’s greatest tragedian is due to perform at Snakeville’s Opry House. The Tank Town troupe arrives and stays at Slim’s (Potel) boarding house. Slim’s wife Sophie (Joslin) is...
Comedy short in which Lupino Lane joins a vaudeville company, first as a bill sticker and then as an actor after the leading man quits. Includes a scene from Romeo and Juliet in which Lane (Romeo) trips over...
Episode 5 (Series 1) of the comedy sketch show contains a two-minute skit on "The Mind of a Shakespearean Actor". It reproduces the interior monologue of an actor who is performing Macbeth at the theatre.
In a short skit towards the end of this episode of the classic comedy sketch show, Ronnie Barker stars as a forgetful actor who manages to jumble up all the lines from Hamlet’s famous ‘To be or not to...
Comedy short. An experienced actor directs a melodrama for an amateur troupe. A jealous young man sabotages the set.
American sitcom. Derek Jacobi guest stars as an over-the-hill actor (Jackson Headley) whose career is now typecast playing Tobor (robot spelt backwards), an android character in a television series ‘Space...
Comedy short featuring a character called Bumke. An ambitious but inept actor makes himself ridiculous by playing the part of Othello on the stage. He has to flee when the audience becomes outraged.
Comedy short. An unemployed actor offers a stagestruck young woman and her family acting lessons in exchange for free board and lodging. They attempt a performance of Othello at the town hall which turns out...
American adult animated science-fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly...
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