Moore has successfully integrated comedy with topical issues as her four middle-class Minnesotans grapple with their various personal problems and with one another.
It is a hugely enjoyable comedy with action, suspense and a love story thrown in - even if a horribly Hollywood ending may leave a sour taste.
This is grand entertainment, an ensemble comedy with an all-black cast (plus one beleaguered white barber) that's about, of all things, a day at a barbershop on the south side of Chicago.
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks will kick off the festival with The Terminal - a romantic comedy with Catherine Zeta Jones about a traveller stranded by political upheaval in his own country for nine months in a New York airport.
Charting a spectacularly erratic 24-hour course, the movie juggles self-consciously hokey small-town comedy with slick (or at least semi-slick) high-tech chase scenes as the road-racing desperado leads Forest Whitaker and the feds on a merry chase through the Southwest in his prototype Corvette 01.
In addition to returning shows United States of Tara, Nurse Jackie, Weeds and Dexter, Showtime is readying The Borgias (a period drama starring Jeremy Irons), Episodes (A BBC co-produced comedy with Matt LeBlanc playing himself) and another middle-aged actress vehicle, The Big C (a cancer comedy starring Laura Linney).
Finneran will depart to film a new NBC comedy series with Michael J.
French is best known for her comedy collaboration with Jennifer Saunders and for her popular sitcom The Vicar of Dibley.
Friday Night Dinner is also up for best sitcom and new comedy, with nods for stars Tamsin Greig and Tom Rosenthal.
But Fry is still best remembered for his comedy partnership with Hugh Laurie, and their show A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
He has had plenty of practice at that, having hosted a weekly TV comedy show with Money co-stars Lee and Thia since 1990.
He has thrown drama, farce and comedy together with piercingly astute perceptions of mental illness, and topped the whole thing off with lyrical romance.
Mr. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with a gift for mimicry, a host of eccentric personalities and a reservoir of creative energy.
His acting talents ranged from romance to comedy, with famous credits like Superman, The Sheepman, The Gazebo, Pocketful of Miracles and Don't Go Near the Water.
Apart from The Vicar of Dibley, French is best known for her comedy collaboration with Jennifer Saunders, the French and Saunders sketch show, which began in 1987.
The Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis romantic comedy Friends With Benefits opens today, and even The New York Times gave it a glowing review.
The show combined dark, often absurd, comedy, with gritty realism.
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And Gordon Brown appeared in a comedy sketch with James Corden and boyband JLS in 2011 - after he was voted out of office in the 2010 general election.
Mortimer, whose comedy partnership with Reeves - real name Jim Moir - extends back to the 1980s, told fans of the show's cancellation on Tuesday via instant messaging site Twitter.
Baroque Spring will feature a mixture of music, drama and comedy, with highlights including actor Dominic West reading poetry from the period and a celebration of the 'Genius of Bach'.
Eager to grow ABC's comedy stable with what he believes is still a strong series, McPherson's Walt Disney-owned network swooped in and granted the hospital comedy new life on its schedule.
Blending the romantic-comedy genre with zombies could have resulted in all sorts of bad cheesiness, but the film manages to be refreshingly original and funny without laying on too much cheese.
Eager to grow ABC's comedy stable with what he believes is still a strong series, McPherson's Walt Disney (nyse: DIS - news - people )-owned network swooped in and granted the hospital comedy new life on its schedule.
The half-hour ABC comedy walked away with five awards, including two best acting nods for Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell and the Outstanding Comedy award.
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Popular actress had hit romantic comedy last year with My Last Star, which she also produced.
The partially-improvised comedy is shot with handheld cameras to give it a documentary feel.
In the 1963 film, filled with comedy all-stars, Winters stood out as a truck driver who destroys a gas station.
Diona Doherty from Londonderry is also at the festival for the first time with comedy sketch group FNT (Friday Night Therapy).
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