1.   Even popular television war comedies were taken off the air, for fear of jarring too awkwardly with endless hours of Gulf coverage.

2.   Or take the scene in a New York police station as portrayed in a television comedy.

3.   She has appeared in several television comedies.

4.   She played Mrs Thatcher in Anyone for Denis and in a television comedy.

5.   The catchphrase, after all, is a fixture in an otherwise protean world of television comedy.

6.   Producer Michael Mills saw the opportunity to team up a new writer with an actor new to television comedy.

7.   Not only that he and Clement wrote the great television comedy The Likely Lads and its successor Whatever Happened?

8.   And television comedy will never be the same again.