Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: Catherine Tate (born Catherine Ford; 12 May 1968) is an English comedian, actress, and writer. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series "The Catherine Tate Show" as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and seven BAFTA Awards. Following the success of "The Catherine Tate Show", Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of "Doctor Who" and later reprised her role, becoming the Tenth Doctor's companion for the fourth series in 2008. In 2011, she began a recurring role as Nellie Bertram in the U.S. version of "The Office" and was a regular until the series ended., Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964) is an English actress, comedian, playwright and theatre director. She became known for her regular appearances in the sketch shows "French and Saunders" (198899), "Harry Enfield's Television Programme" (199092) and "Harry Enfield and Chums" (199498), and for her recurring role as Magda in the BBC sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" (199296). For her role as Valerie in the film "Nil by Mouth", she won Best Actress at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role., Victoria Wood (19 May 1953  20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood wrote and starred in sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions, which she performed on piano. Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life and included references to quintessentially "British" activities, attitudes and products. She was noted for her skills in observing culture and in satirising social classes., Joan Alexandra Molinsky (June 8, 1933  September 4, 2014), widely known as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host noted for her often controversial comedic personaalternatingly self-deprecating or sharply acerbic, especially toward celebrities and politicians., Phyllis Ada Driver (July 17, 1917  August 20, 2012), better known as Phyllis Diller, was an American actress and stand-up comedian, best known for her eccentric stage persona, her self-deprecating humor, her wild hair and clothes, and her exaggerated, cackling laugh., Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actress, comedian, author and television host. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television and is one of the few entertainers who has won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. She was the second black woman in the history of the Academy Awards to win an acting Oscar., Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is an English actress, writer, and comedian. She is best known for starring in and writing for the comedy sketch show "French and Saunders" with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley". French has been nominated for seven British Academy Television Awards and also won a BAFTA Fellowship with Jennifer Saunders., Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy is an interview series shown on BBC Four. In the series, Dawn French interviewed some of the most prolific comedians of the century from Phyllis Diller to Catherine Tate and asked about life, love, family and comedy. The series was shown as three episodes featuring clips from French's various interviews with different comedians, however, from 25 to 30 December 2006 BBC Four showed six full interviews of 2030 minutes. They are (in order of re-broadcast on BBC Four) Whoopi Goldberg, Catherine Tate, Kathy Burke, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood and Joan Rivers. This is one of the last interviews done with the late comedian Linda Smith. Each episode ends with a tribute to Linda Smith., Julia Mary "Julie" Walters, CBE (born 22 February 1950) is an English actress and writer. She has won two BAFTA Film Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014. Walters first came to international prominence in 1983, for playing the title role in "Educating Rita". It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. It also won her a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. She received a second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in the 2000 film "Billy Elliot", which also won her a BAFTA. Her other film roles include "Personal Services" (1987), "Prick Up Your Ears" (1987), "Buster" (1988), "Stepping Out" (1991), "Calendar Girls" (2003), "Mamma Mia!" (2008) and "Brave" (2012). She has also played Molly Weasley in seven of the eight "Harry Potter" films (20012011). On stage, she won an Olivier Award for Best Actress for the 2001 production of "All My Sons"., BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable., The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). They have been awarded annually since 1955., French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act., Dawn French 's Boys Who Do Comedy is a British TV series in which comedian Dawn French interviews her favourite male comedians about how they came to be comedians . It is a follow up and counterpart to Dawn French 's Girls Who Do Comedy . The full BBC One series consists of three 30 - minute programmes with 35 comedians , sewn together as if they were a single discussion . Programme 1 is about how family and early life influenced their careers , programme 2 is about the comedians ' early careers , and programme 3 is about the experience of standing on stage in front of an audience . The decision was taken early in the production process to film with three cameras , largely in close up , and with very sparing use of archive material . Each show features five or six archive clips of a variety of other comedians past and present . A spin - off series of six half - hour interviews , called Dawn French 's More Boys Who Do Comedy , was transmitted on BBC Four , slightly bizarrely before the main BBC One series transmitted . The featured comedians were John Cleese , Graham Norton , Bill Bailey , Rob Brydon , Russell Brand and Ken Dodd ., The Vicar of Dibley is a BBC television sitcom which originally ran from 10 November 1994 to 22 January 1998 (with three sets of specials in the Winters of 1999/2000, 2004/5 and 2006/7). It is set in a fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female vicar following the 1992 changes in the Church of England that permitted the ordination of women., Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and actress. She has won three BAFTAs (including the BAFTA Fellowship), an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a People's Choice Award., Boadicea Geraldine Kennedy (née Granger) is a fictional female vicar, the central character to the successful British BBC sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley". She is portrayed by Dawn French, described by the British Comedy Guide as "the jolly, down-to-earth female vicar of Dibley, a small country village inhabited by oddballs. After overcoming the town's initial shock at her gender Geraldine helps to improve the village."
Much of the source of comedy comes from the way French plays the female vicar with her extroverted and fun-loving nature, frequent colourful language, and behaviour as a vicar which would usually be frowned on by the church., Subject: dawn french's boys who do comedy, Relation: instance_of, Options: (A) 12 (B) academy (C) august (D) award (E) calendar (F) channel (G) character (H) comedian (I) comedy (J) country (K) director (L) double act (M) duo (N) emmy award (O) entertainment (P) episodes (Q) february (R) festival (S) film festival (T) four (U) gender (V) globe (W) grammy award (X) guild (Y) history (Z) humour ([) january (\) july (]) june (^) language (_) may (`) november (a) october (b) persona (c) production (d) role (e) september (f) series (g) six (h) sketch comedy (i) stage (j) television (k) television channel (l) television series (m) three (n) title (o) tribute (p) work
Output (English): television series