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Episode 1: Would You Hit a Guy with Glasses?: Nerds, Jerks and Oddballs
1 hour
Series chronicling 100 years of American comedy looks at the role of the outsider, from Harold Lloyd to Woody Allen. Show more
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Episode 3: Slip on a Banana Peel: The Knockabouts
55 minutes
Series about American comedy. This episode explores slapstick and features Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers. Show more
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Episode 4: When I'm Bad, I'm Better: The Groundbreakers
55 minutes
Series about American comedy looks at how audacious performers from Mae West to Lenny Bruce invoked 'freedom of speech' to bring laughs. Show more
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Episode 5: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break: The Wiseguys
55 minutes
Series about American comedy looks at the wiseguys who get the final, and funniest, word, from WC Fields in the 30s to Larry David. Show more
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Episode 6: Sock it to Me?: Satire and Parody
55 minutes
Series about American comedy looks at how performers from Jon Stewart to Mel Brooks have used satire to make fun of the world around them. Show more
Can a man and a woman be friends without sex getting in the way? Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal find out in Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron's classic romantic comedy.
58 minutes
Through 25 key moments and interviews with the creative team and actors, this programme takes a look at the highs and lows of the award-winning animation studio Pixar. Show more
Animation. A young girl is forced to toil in a hat shop. Her only joy is her friendship with Howl the wizard. But when a witch sees her happiness, she curses her to be old. Show more
Black comedy. A would-be writer concocts a scheme to dispose of his tyrannical mother in this spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. Show more
Documentary about pioneering computer animation studio Pixar, featuring contributions from the studio's bosses and a host of actors who have lent their voices to their creations. Show more
Comic western sequel in which the three adventurous city boys travel to Montana armed with a treasure map - only to encounter a familiar face. Show more
A New Year's Eve special with Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Hugh Jackman and Billy Crystal as well as John Bishop, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood. Music by Pink. Show more
Lighthearted drama about two disillusioned Chicago cops who have one last try at catching a dangerous drugs baron before they quit the force to run a bar in the Florida Keys. Show more
The One Show
31/08/2021
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland HD
Jermaine Jenas and Sam Quek are joined by Hollywood legend Billy Crystal. Plus Lee Mack and James Nesbitt, and a catch up with Alex Jones.
Wogan: The Best Of
Episode 3: Funny
44 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four
Sir Terry Wogan remembers some of the funniest guests he talked to whilst presenting his Wogan show, including Steve Coogan, Harry Enfield, Pete and Dud, and Billy Crystal. Show more