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Up in Town is a six-part series of short (10-minute) monologues, featuring Joanna Lumley as the middle-aged, divorced and lonely Madison Blakelock. The series was produced for television by Baby Cow Productions, and screened on BBC Two. It has subsequently been released on DVD. [1]
Stand-up comedy has roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century, including vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, concert saloons, freak shows, variety shows, medicine shows, American burlesque, English music halls, circus clown antics, Chautauqua, and humorist monologues like those delivered by Mark Twain in his first (1866 ...
After the announcer announces the opening credits for the show, the first segment is a ten-minute monologue by Leno, with jokes about current events and brief comedy sketches occasionally mixed in. The second segment is a full comedy sketch, such as a mini-documentary by a " Tonight Show correspondent" (e.g., Ross the Intern or Mikey Day ), or ...
Costas and Jimmy reprised the bit with a Summer Olympics-themed set on August 10, 2012 (also a Friday). Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined Jimmy behind the desk to write out some thank you notes of his own on Friday, December 13, 2013. Regis Philbin joined Jimmy with a little help to write out some thank you notes of his own on Friday, June 19, 2015.
During a 10-minute monologue on Monday Jimmy Kimmel, a Las Vegas native, choked up describing families torn apart by the deadliest shooting in U.S. history.
During the segment of the show after the monologue, Letterman will be setting up a comedy bit when the camera trained on him begins to drift downward and stops with Letterman's head out of frame. Letterman will continue for several seconds before noticing the camera's new position, when he stops his bit and asks the cameraman, Dave Dorsett ...
Michael Keaton had some spooky characters join him during his Saturday Night Live monologue!. The actor, 73, hosted the Oct. 19 episode of the comedy sketch series, where he was joined by Billie ...
Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesThe monologue was filled with funny jokes, including references to Barbie getting snubbed by the Academy, Killers of the Flower Moon having a ridiculous runtime of three h ...