Naughton, who died in 1992, described the play as a "high comedy in low places" - but he was never completely happy with the finished product.
The exception that proves the rule: Used Guys, a high-concept comedy that was to star Ben Stiller and Jim Carey, which Fox pulled earlier this year.
And perhaps not with such a high profile and unmistakeably commercial comedy commission.
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And when, inspired by the experience, his spoof band, the Hee Bee Bee Gees, reached number two in the Australian charts with their Meaningless Songs in Very High Voices, Deayton decided comedy was the life for him.
Today there are hundreds of networks ranging from the high minded CSPAN to the ribald Comedy Central.
Ms. Ireland starts at the top of the board with "Murders and Acquisitions, " a dark comedy set in the world of high finance.
You'll recall from high school or college how Shakespeare frequently pushes the limits of comedy and tragedy, splicing farce into moments of calamity (the fool in King Lear, the clowns in Hamlet) and pulling back suddenly from near-fatal disaster in comedies (The Merchant of Venice, A Winter's Tale).
Out of that morass, we were given the gift of Fast Times at Ridgemont High , a socioeconomic study in the guise of a teen sex comedy that is more apropos to teens now than it has been at any time since its initial release.
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.
"Before Midnight" is perhaps the most highly anticipated movie sequel this summer that is neither a comedy nor an action-adventure movie, and its predecessors rank high on many lists of best romantic movies.
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The comedy star attended Donnington Junior School and won a scholarship to the City of Oxford High School for Boys, which is now Oxford University History Faculty building, in George Street.
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