Comedy
London Assurance
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Dion Boucicault
This fast-paced Victorian farce is at heart a comedy of manners. Dion Bouciault’s witty dialogue ridicules the pretensions of society as the…
Civil Service
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Walter Ben Hare
Subtitled "An American Drama in Three Acts. A Play with a Punch." "A comedy drama of American life depicting the joys and sor…
Jack HAley
Various
'The Wonder Show' - Jack Haley's second radio program. it has nearly all the same cast as in 'Log Cabin Jamboree', except adding Lucille Bal…
Red Skelton Show 46 12 31 Old Man Winter
Deadeye goes after the man who stole his gal and his gold claim. Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid get in trouble for throwing snowballs.
Vincent Mac Inerney The Bell
SANWAL
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Bell Sat 14th Aug 1993, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM In Vincent Maclnerney's Liverpudlian comedy …
For the Love of Leo: BBC Radio Comedy Drama
BBC Radio 4
Leo Fabiani is a renowned Edinburgh artist who tragically loses his wife in a traffic accident and seems, ever since, to have become a magne…
The Rocket
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Gentlemen out away from London, looking for wives. "I'm going to settle down, hearthrug and slippers and all that sort of thing." …
The Double Dealer
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William Congreve
"This remarkable melodrama [The Double Dealer] - for a comedy it can scarcely be called... Is it possible to imagine a more inextricabl…
The Follies of a Day; OR, The Marriage of Figaro (English)
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Pierre Beaumarchais
This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its origina…
A Bold Stroke for a Husband
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Hannah Cowley
"Plays, where the scene is placed in a foreign country, particularly when that country is Spain, have a license to present certain impr…
A Wife Without A Smile
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Mr. Rippingill can not get his wife to relax her stony features and smile. Maybe even laugh. "Avis - Lady Whitstable and the pickled sa…
Wives as They Were, Maids as They Are
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Elizabeth Inchbald
This Restoration-Era comedy of manners satirizes the hypocrisy, gamesmanship, and imbalance of power inherent in the institution of marriage…
Point Sublime
Various
Starring Cliff Arquette as storekeeper and mayor of Point Sublime, Ben Willet, and Mel Blanc as August Moon and Ben Willet's side-kick, the …
Fred Allen Town Hall Tonight 37 03 17 St Patrick's Day Show
Unknown
The Mighty Allen Art Players perform a hillbilly feud skit. A failed escape artist is given one more chance.
18NewYearsOTRClassics
PDGazette2
18 New Year OTR Shows, 1944-1958 Comedy, science fiction, horror, detective, and variety shows from the first week (12/31 - 1/7) of the new …
Jack Benny Program 37 04 11 Guests Burns And Allen
Gracie arrives to deliver a message from George, but George has to deliver it himself. The cast performs another episode of Buck Benny…
We’re in Business: A BBC Radio Comedy Series
BBC Radio 4
Eight episodes from the vintage radio comedy starring Peter Jones and Harry Worth. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service, We’re in Busines…
Protesting Too Much: BBC Radio Comedy
BBC Radio 4
Set on the eve of the 1997 general election, bumbling Conservative MP George Dank climbs a tree in protest at the building of a new bypass t…
Cupid's Whirligig
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Edward Sharpham
Cupid's Whirligig is a city comedy: a play in colloquial language dealing with the everyday life of London's citizens. A knight, Sir Timothy…
A Woman is a Weathercock
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Nathan Field
A Woman is a Weathercock is the first play by the former child star of the Jacobean stage, Nathan Field. The action takes place over a singl…