Some comedy pilots and spin-offs from other shows have previously been screened on iPlayer, including Doctor Who mini-series Pond Life.
His collaborations, first with Jimmy Perry and later with Jeremy Lloyd, produced some of comedy's best loved characters and drew audiences in their millions.
Some of the comedy legends who gathered in the freezing weather outside St Helen's Church attempted Collier's trademark stuttering microphone routine.
"Year-on-year it has attracted increasing numbers of visitors and has brought some of the greatest comedy performers in the world to our city, " he said.
The movie often plays like a series of TV-comedy skits, some of them funny and incisive, some larkish and insubstantial.
"Fox is really in need of some good solid drama and comedy development, " says Jack Myers, publisher of Media Business Reports, an industry newsletter.
So, I think we should make an effort to have a real discussion and not just a knee-jerk reaction when some of us say that the comedy stage has no place for sexism, racism and homophobia.
Some of these proposals make good comedy.
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There are upcoming events that offer some hope that we will emerge from the comedy doldrums.
Some of it is just going to be comedy that anchors in the world of games.
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But interspersed with analysis of how comedy and insanity collide, there is some discontent.
Some critics are also questioning the relevance of the studio audience in comedy, which is a key element in most multi-camera sitcoms.
So Whitehall and Westminster will recognise some truth in the new series of Yes, Prime Minister but it is still more comedy than documentary.
Some unusual events will see Billy Kirkwood perform in a city tattoo parlour, late night comedy at St Enoch subway station and Julia Sutherland take her routine to Ibrox Library.
So it is with some sense of guilt that I admit to being a closet fan of Blind Date--the raunchy comedy on the WB Network featuring men and women on a first date.
While some have criticized the House for turning a witness chair over to Stephen Colbert, in reality, the comedy show host and satirist used his testimony to explain well the issue of illegal immigration and migrant farm workers.
We speak to the founder and principal players of comedy performance art group Improv Everywhere about the role technology has played in the rise of the group and some of its most famous (and infamous) pranks.
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