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''The Comedy Company'' was an Australian comedy television series first aired from 16 February 1988 until about 11 November 1990 on Network Ten, Sunday night and was created and directed by Ian McFadyen, and co directed and produced by Jo Lane. The show largely consisted of sketch comedy in short segments, much in the tradition of earlier Sketch comedy shows, ''The Mavis Bramston Show'', ''The Naked Vicar Show'', ''Australia You're Standing In It'', and ''The D-Generation''. The majority of the filming took place in Melbourne, Victoria. The show and characters had a significant effect on Australian pop culture, and had a cult following particularly on Australian youth. The Australian adoption of the word "bogan" was first used in its existing context by the ''The Comedy Company'' character, Kylie Mole, portrayed by Mary-Anne Fahey This program should not be confused with a short-lived American sketch-comedy/variety series of the same name that ran 10 years earlier. == Program Synopsis == In 1988, the Media Arts company was asked by Network Ten Australia to produce a one-hour-a-week comedy program. Within a few months, ''The Comedy Company'' became the most successful comedy program of the decade being the highest rated weekly television program, particularly of note it ran against the Nine Network popular current events show ''60 Minutes'' which shared its timeslot. Much of its success was due to it being the only family entertainment on television on a Sunday night. ''The Comedy Company'' remained the consistently highest rating weekly television program for two years. Many of the stars of ''The Comedy Company'' came from a 1985 Seven Network show called The Eleventh Hour, which starred Mary-Anne Fahey, Ian McFadyen, Mark Mitchell, Glenn Robbins, Peter Moon and Steve Vizard. Fahey, McFadyen, Mitchell and Robbins went to ''The Comedy Company'' whilst Steve Vizard and Peter Moon went to the Seven Network series ''Fast Forward''. ''The Comedy Company'' premiered many famous characters such as Con The Fruiterer, Kylie Mole, Col'n Carpenter, Uncle Arthur and David Rabbitborough. Some of these characters still remain minor Australian icons. Con the Fruiterer, one of the more popular characters appears even to this day on a variety of shows, as does his wife Marika. Comedian Kym Gyngell also created a spin-off series called Col'n Carpenter (1990–1991) based on his character of the same name. Kylie Mole was also featured in the second series of the ABC's ''Kittson, Fahey'' (1993). Notably, Glenn Robbins often did public appearances as Uncle Arthur and on ''The Panel'' he often references ''The Comedy Company'' by periodically slipping in and out of the character, as well as appearing in full costume as Arthur for ''The Panel'' Christmas Special in 2005. When the show was relaunched ''The New Comedy Company'' it featured some of the original cast and characters alongside new comedians. This series lasted one year. In 2002, an hour of clips from ''The Comedy Company'' was edited into a special called ''The Comedy Company: So Excellent'', with the subtitle referencing a famed line by the Kylie Mole character. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Comedy Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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