New Zealand's best and brightest comedians showcase their current affairs prowess unpacking the hot topics of the week: politics, sports, pop culture news and international affairs to test just who’s been paying attention…
Zee Bangla launches the first sketch comedy show in Bengali TV, Apur Sangsar “ conducted by Saswata Chatterjee (Bob Biswas from Kahani fame). It is a family circus where there are neither lions nor jokers yet you shall swing in the trapeze of laughter. Apus family includes Sarbojaya, the widowed mother of three sons who is obsessed with Dev the Superstar and in prayers she chants that her eldest son Apu, a bank employee be like him. Whereas the youngster sons Topu, an aspiring poet and Dipu, a filmstar by heart, are both unemployed. To add to it Apus wife, Sharmila, is an aspiring actress who got married to Apu just because he stays close to the film studios. Last but not the least the garnishing comes in the form of Dhananjoy, the male help in the house, who is always upto never ending mischief. In addition Celebrity Guests will be present in every episode to add on to the comedy confusion.
The Rosie Show is an American evening television talk show starring and produced by actress, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning talk show host Rosie O'Donnell.
All the goss from the night before - who likes who and what did they do?! Join hosts Indiyah Polack and Amy Hart for all the need-to-know chat from the villa.
Satirical television program aired from November 4 to December 18, 2002. The transmission was intended to shed light on a case (of course fantasy) of a missing person, Mario Scafroglia. The hypothesis was that the man had voluntarily lost track of himself, which offered in each episode new food for thought to deepen in a satirical way themes of current affairs, politics and costume, in an attempt to understand the reasons that had driven Scafroglia to flee.
Punchlines was a comedy game show series hosted by Lennie Bennett that was produced by LWT and aired on the ITV network from January 3, 1981 until December 22, 1984.
The show was based on an unsold U.S. pilot hosted by Bill Cullen which was made for daily syndication on December 30, 1979 as an attempt to revive Eye Guess which ran on NBC from January 3, 1966 to September 26, 1969 and, like Punchlines, was created by Bob Stewart and hosted by Cullen.
An Australian pilot was also made for the Seven Network on August 20, 1986 - hosted by Jeremy Kewley but it failed to sell.