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Userbox

Ill make the userbox for you. --DestructoTalk to me 02:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Scope

We're covering everything with comedy. Shows, sketches, characters, comedians, everything. Anything that is comedy related is part of the project. So let's get tagging. Gran2 15:23, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Dispute Resolution Procedure REQUEST FOR COMMENT for article "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

As per Wikipedia procedure for dispute resolution I am asking any and all members of this project to add input on a dispute over deletion of Taglines for this film, which was added to the National Film Registry in 2005. The original tagline "A Different Set of Jaws" is also listed as one of the most memorable taglines in history along with others. I also have at least one other reference source, an article on "The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Cultural Performance" with mention on the cultural impact of the tagline "Don't Dream It, Be It." Input is needed to resolve a current "Edit War" where an Editor keeps deleting without adding a better reason than he "Does not believe they are notable" with no further reference to back up the assertion. Thank you. --Amadscientist 23:03, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Peer Reviews

I have noticed that the Tamsin Greig article has had its peer review compeleted. Does that mean that article should still be included in the peer review section? ISD 10:25, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

If the peer review is over then, as no one can make further comments, it can be removed from here. Also on the subject of PRs, I could use some comments at Notting Hill's PR, as it currently has none. Also good work on QI by the way. Gran2 10:30, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Tag episode articles?

I was wondering if we should tag articles of individual episodes. I'm asking because the article for The Simpsons episode You Only Move Twice is currently an candidate for featured article status, and there already several Simpsons episodes which are good articles.

If we tagged these however, we would have to tag all the episodes, and considering there are over 400 Simpsons episodes, that will take a lot of work. Not to mention tagging all the episodes for other comedies. ISD 08:15, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't see why not. Especially as about half of those GAs were done by me, and one of the FAs as well. Gran2 14:30, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Now that we have been given some descendent WikiProjects, should we still tag episodes to this WikiProjects? ISD 08:28, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Ian Stone article

I have occured a problem witht the article on Ian Stone. A user removed a section critising him. On closer examination, I believe the user to be Ian Stone himself, mainly due the user being called Iandstone.

First of all, is a Wikipedian allowed to edit their own articles? Second, do you believe the criticism should be returned? ISD 17:06, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Its a basic policy that if someone has an article about themselves they are "encouraged" to not edit it. There's a list of Wikipedians with articles, but the only person I'd heard was Jimbo. To edit your article your article is one thing, to edit your article to remove critcism is not allowed. I suggest you talk to him as it seems he is the real deal. Also, if you can find other sources that say the same thing as the one there. That'll show that it wasn't just one source reporting it. Gran2 17:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

The Colbert Report

The Colbert Report is a Featured Article Candidate here. Since it's within the scope of this wikiproject, I thought anyone interested could take a look and support or oppose. Cheers, Jude. 18:15, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh, just noticed it's on your front page under "Candidates". Sorry. Jude. 18:35, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Parent and Descendent WikiProjects

Do you think we should add lists of Parent and Descendent WikiProjects? For those who don't know, Descendent WikiProjects are ones that may form part of a larger WikiProject (For example, The Simpsons WikiProject) and Parent WikiProjects are ones in which this WikiProject would form part of (For example, the Entertainment WikiProject). ISD 07:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

That sounds like a good idea. It may also help us find more articles to tag with WikiProject Comedy. Magkaz 07:31, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Featured Article candidate

100 Good Articles

This WikiProject has now reached 100 good articles! Well done everyone! ISD 08:28, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh wow, good work guys! — H2O —  08:58, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant FAC

Hairspray (2007 film) peer review

I just thought I would say that Hairspray (2007 film) is currently undergoing a peer review in hopes of further improving the article. Seeing as the film falls under the scope of this WikiProject, I thought I would post here to let any members of this WikiProject who might be able to help know that any contributions they could make would be more than welcome. Thanks! —Mears man (talk) 15:33, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Peer Review, Hell Is Other Robots

Please see Wikipedia:Peer review/Hell Is Other Robots/archive1, and if you can, provide feedback on how to improve this article's quality further to WP:FA status. Thanks, Cirt 16:32, 1 December 2007 (UTC).

Lord of the Universe (documentary) on Peer Review

Recently passed as a Good Article, Lord of the Universe (documentary) is now on Peer Review. Your feedback would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Lord of the Universe (documentary)/archive1. Thanks, Cirt 19:43, 1 December 2007 (UTC).

Featured article candidates

There are currently five articles in this WikiProject that are currently candidates for featured article. It would be good if members of this WikiProject commented on them. The articles are:

Thanks, ISD (talk) 17:03, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Thanks for posting this notice. I had read through some of these other ones earlier but either forgot to comment or did not realize they were up at FAC. Cirt (talk) 20:17, 12 December 2007 (UTC).
    • The first three have been promoted successfully. There are currently still two articles for consideration. ISD (talk) 13:17, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Portal peer review

Portal:The Simpsons is on Portal Peer Review. Your feedback/comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/The Simpsons, before I eventually nominate the portal to be a Featured Portal Candidate. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 19:59, 12 December 2007 (UTC).

National Lampoon and National Lampoon Inc.

National Lampoon magazine was extremely important to American humor in the 70s and even the early to mid 80s, but after that it ran out of steam, and the name ended up being sold to to companies who wanted to simply license the name or cash in on the associations any which way they could. I think it is wrong for information about the current company, National Lampoon Inc to be added on to the article about the original magazine and its directly related projects. In fact the stuff about the company read very much like an advertisement before I tweaked it a bit. Does anyone feel it would be appropriate to divide the article into two articles? Or is there anything else we can do to preserve the info about the "real" NatLamp from contamination with the more recent more phony stuff? Invertzoo (talk) 19:00, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Can I get anyone from the Comedy project to weigh in on this? Nation Lampoon Inc. has no connection whatsoever to the original. They bought the rights to the name is all. They are using the article as a ad for their own ventures. Invertzoo (talk) 13:45, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Duck Soup submitted for peer review...

Hey there, everybody! I've recently submitted Duck Soup for peer review in order to find out some better ways to improve the article's (and other Marx Brothers articles) quality. If anyone's interested in leaving feedback, you can go to the article's talk page and follow the link. Thanks. — Cinemaniac (talk • contribs) 21:57, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Stain on Junk Alley Submitted for PR

Mr. Stain is currently under going PR and since it falls under this wikiproject, I thought someone could take a look at it.
thanks,
Binarymoron (talk) 17:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson on Peer Review

The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson has recently been passed as a Good Article, and is currently undergoing a Peer Review. Any comments/feedback on how to further improve the article's quality would be most appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson/archive1. Cirt (talk) 06:06, 10 January 2008 (UTC).

  • Peer review has been archived, thanks to those who gave feedback. Cirt (talk) 03:20, 21 January 2008 (UTC).

FAR notice

A Tale of a Tub has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Cirt (talk) 14:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC).

The Last Temptation of Krust on Peer Review

The Last Temptation of Krust has recently been passed as a Good Article, and is currently undergoing a Peer Review. Any comments/feedback on how to further improve the article's quality would be most appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/The Last Temptation of Krust. Cirt (talk) 09:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

New article: Comedy album

Comedy album has been created. I'm not sure what ought to be done with it, so I thought I'd pass this on to better qualified people. Cheers. --Kife 23:35, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Centralized TV Episode Discussion

Over the past months, TV episodes have been redirected by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here [1]. --Maniwar (talk) 01:19, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Comedy collaboration

There's one going on right now at the Comedy page! Be there! :) Wrad (talk) 17:33, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Bot tagging articles

I'm a new member to WP:Comedy and noticed a lot of Comedy-related articles are not tagged. Has it been considered to have a bot go through comedy categories/templates and tag articles? Either someone can request a bot to do it, or I can seek approval for my bot to tag some (I've done tagging for WP:SHIPS). I made up a list of comedy categories and templates and it looks like there's 25,000 articles that aren't tagged. -- pb30<talk> 18:14, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I think creating a bot would be a good idea. Let's see what we can do. ISD (talk) 18:26, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
If theres some consensus I can apply for this new task using my bot. -- pb30<talk> 18:53, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

National Lampoon

Does anyone object if I split the National Lampoon article into two separate articles? One would be National Lampoon magazine which would be all of the original work, I would like to add a lot more to that one. The other would be National Lampoon Inc, which is a modern company that has nothing whatsoever to do with the original NL except that they bought the name. Please let me know. If I have not heard from anyone in a month I will make the change. Invertzoo (talk) 14:10, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Made the split this morning. Invertzoo (talk) 15:56, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Terry Pratchett

Just wondered why he wasn't High importance. He'll be a good FA in my opinion, and the article (Terry Pratchett which is coming along) could use the push. He's the 2nd highest-selling novelist in UK (next to JK Rowling, who over-leapt him), and 7th in the US. He out-sold everyone in the UK in for the 90's. He's also been in the news after having been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and has finally allowed a couple of film adaptations to happen too (Raimi and Gilliam). Whatever the genre, he's singularly comedy too.--Matt Lewis (talk) 03:44, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Update on The Comedy Portal

Alan Davies

There has been some trouble recently on the article about Alan Davies, in relaiton to a fact that has been reference on it, and whether it should be kept or removed. I would like to some help in trying to reach a consensus over the issue please. The issue is being discussed on the article's talk page. Thanks. ISD (talk) 11:36, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Marx Brothers articles

I notice there needs to be a lot of work done at several articles over the Marx Brothers films. While pages like Duck Soup, Monkey Business, and A Night at the Opera are getting much needed boosts, others like A Day at the Races and Horse Feathers require expansion or clean up. Is there a Marxist expert, preferrably one of the Groucho variety, who could help give those articles the attention they deserve? Cinemaniac (talk • contribs • critique) 18:43, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Priority assessment

While checking through WP:Project Actors and Filmmakers assessments, I noticed that this project has the priority rating for Charles Chaplin as a high priority, rather than a top priority. Since Chaplin is one of the 200 WP:Biography core subjects, that should probably imply that he is of top priority. Since I'm not a member of this project, I thought I'd bring it up here for consideration by those in the group who do the assessments. Thanks. Wildhartlivie (talk) 22:11, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Featured list candidates

Currently, there are three featured list candidates that have not garnered enough responses to them, that fall under this WikiProject. They are (in chronological order):

The List of 30 Rock awards and nominations is also currently nominated, but is not currently listed as one that needs urgent reviewing.

If you can take time to review these articles, please do. ISD (talk) 21:44, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

The Principal and the Pauper on Peer Review

Please see Wikipedia:Peer review/The Principal and the Pauper/archive1. Cirt (talk) 22:32, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

FAC notice

Tenacious D

The Tenacious D article is currently undergoing a peer review. I need some outside help, as I am the only one editing this at the moment. I think the article can make FA class. Please help by adding to the suggestions on this here. Thanks. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 17:07, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Lost Our Lisa on Peer Review

Lost Our Lisa on Peer Review. Your comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Lost Our Lisa/archive1. Cirt (talk) 09:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Request for Comment

Please see the Request for Comment section, of the talk page for The Profit. Cirt (talk) 18:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Green Wing (series 2) for featured list

The second series of Green Wing was nominated for featured list status but failed, mainly because so few people commented on it. It has been put back up again so if anyone wants to comment on it, please do so. ISD (talk) 07:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The Principal and the Pauper at WP:FAC

The Principal and the Pauper is up at WP:FAC, comments would be appreciated. FAC discussion page is here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Principal and the Pauper. Cirt (talk) 15:49, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Seinfeld (season 3) and Seinfeld (Season 1) for featured list

I have put these up for featured list, so if anyone wants to comment please do so. --Gman124 talk 13:48, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Arrested Development Taskforce

I am interested in setting up an Arrested Development Taskforce that would possibly have this project (and WikiProject Television) as its parents. The full proposal can be found here. Add your name if you're interested! Joelster (talk) 00:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Just letting everyone know that the taskforce has been set up here. Joelster (talk) 06:22, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons) at WP:FAC

Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons) is up at WP:FAC, comments would be appreciated. FAC discussion page is here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons). --Maitch (talk) 20:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)