Information: - Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. Among the earliest BBC television programmes in the 1930s was "Starlight", which offered a series of guests from the music hall era, which often included singers and comedians. Similarly, many early United States television programs were variety shows including the "Texaco Star Theater" featuring Milton Berle; comedy acts often taken from vaudeville were staples of such shows. - Stewart Graham Lee (born 5 April 1968) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, director and musician. He made his name in the mid-1990s as one half of the radio duo Lee and Herring, alongside Richard Herring, a success followed through with extensive touring to build up a live following. He co-wrote and co-directed the mock Broadway hit "", a critical success that sparked a backlash from Christian groups who staged a series of protests outside its early stagings. - Brass Eye is a British comedy series parodying the current affairs news programming of the mid 1990s. A series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, and a further episode in 2001. The series was created by Chris Morris, written by Morris, David Quantick, Peter Baynham, Jane Bussmann, Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan and Charlie Brooker and directed by Michael Cumming. - Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English comedian, writer, blogger and podcaster whose early work includes the comedy double-act Lee and Herring. He is described by "The British Theatre Guide" as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy". - Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is a type of lymphoma, which is generally believed to result from white blood cells of the lymphocyte kind. Symptoms may include fever, night sweats, and weight loss. Often there will be non-painful enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, under the arm, or in the groin. Those affected may feel tired or be itchy. About half of cases of Hodgkin's lymphoma are due to EpsteinBarr virus (EBV). Other risk factors include a family history of the condition and having HIV/AIDS. There are two major types of Hodgkin lymphoma: classical Hodgkin lymphoma and nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma. Diagnosis is by finding Hodgkin's cells such as multinucleated ReedSternberg cells (RS cells) in lymph nodes. Hodgkin lymphoma may be treated with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and stem cell transplant. The choice of treatment often depends on how advanced the cancer is and whether or not it has favorable features. In early disease a cure is often possible. The percentage of people who survive five years in the United States is 86%. For those under the age of 20 rates of survival are 97%. Radiation and some chemotherapy drugs, however, increase the risk of other cancers, heart disease, or lung disease over the subsequent decades. In 2013 about 725,000 people had Hodgkin's lymphoma and 24,000 died. In the United States 0.2% of people are affected at some point in their life. The most common age of diagnosis is between 20 and 40 years old. It was named after the English physician Thomas Hodgkin, who first described the condition in 1832. - Steven Wells (10 May 1960 24 June 2009) was a British journalist, author, comedian and punk poet born in Swindon, Wiltshire. He was best known for ranting poetry and his provocative, unapologetic music journalism. In June 2006, he wrote in the "Philadelphia Weekly" about his treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma. After being in remission for a short time, he was diagnosed with enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma in January 2009 and died on 24 June 2009 in Philadelphia. - Armando Giovanni Iannucci, OBE (born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, television director, and radio producer. - BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is Gwyneth Williams; and the station is part of BBC Radio and the "BBC Radio" department. The station is broadcast from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. - A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves. Generally, it is a receiver or transmitter, an antenna, and some smaller additional equipment necessary to operate them. Radio stations play a vital role in communication technology as they are heavily relied on to transfer data and information across the world. - On the Hour was a British radio programme that parodied current affairs broadcasting, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1991 and 1992. - The BBC Home Service was a British national radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it became the current BBC Radio 4. - BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927). The service provides national radio stations covering the majority of musical genres, as well as local radio stations covering local news, affairs and interests. It also oversees online audio content. - Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main building is in Art Deco style, with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame. It is a Grade II* listed building and includes the BBC Radio Theatre, where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience, and lobby that was used as a location for filming the 1998 BBC television series "In the Red". - Wortley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 579, increasing to 626 at the 2011 Census. Wortley is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Wirtleie". - David Quantick (born 14 May 1961, Wortley, South Yorkshire, England) is an English freelance journalist, writer and critic who specialises in music and comedy. - The British Theatre Guide is a UK-centred on-line website of theatre reviews, news reports, interviews and obituaries. It also reviews opera and dance, as well as books, audio recordings and DVDs. - A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comic. - Big Train is a surreal British television comedy sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, writers of the successful sitcom "Father Ted". The first series was broadcast on BBC Two in 1998, while the second, in which Linehan was not involved, aired in 2002. - Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width. When radio waves strike an electrical conductor, the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor. The information in the waves can be extracted and transformed back into its original form. - The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes , broadcast in 1994 , created by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris . It is an adaptation of the radio programme On the Hour , which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1991 and 1992 . On the Hour was written by Morris , Iannucci , Steven Wells , Andrew Glover , Stewart Lee , Richard Herring , David Quantick , and the cast . For The Day Today , Peter Baynham joined the writing team , and Lee and Herring were replaced by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews . The principal cast of On the Hour was retained for The Day Today . The Day Today is composed of six half - hour episodes and a selection of shorter , five - minute slots recorded as promotion trailers for the longer segments . The six half - hour episodes were originally broadcast from 19 January to 23 February 1994 on BBC2 . The Day Today has won many awards , including Morris winning the 1994 British Comedy Award for Best Newcomer . All six episodes are available on BBC DVD , having previously been issued on VHS . - Peter Baynham (born 28 June 1963) is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, and performer. - Father Ted is a sitcom that was produced by British independent production company Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4. Written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes. The show also aired on RTE Two in Ireland, and in Australia on Nine Network (series 1) and ABC Television (series 2 and 3). - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation, and is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with over 20,950 staff in total, of whom 16,672 are in public sector broadcasting; including part-time, flexible as well as fixed contract staff, the total number is 35,402. - Lee and Herring were a British standup comedy double act consisting of the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. They were most famous for their work on television, most notably "Fist of Fun" and "This Morning with Richard Not Judy" but had been working together on stage and on radio since the late 1980s. - A blog (a truncation of the expression weblog) is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts"). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and sometimes professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning "to maintain or add content to a blog". - Graham Linehan (born 22 May 1968) is an Irish television comedy writer and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a number of popular television comedies. He is most noted for the sitcoms "Father Ted", "Black Books" and "The IT Crowd". Amongst others, he has also worked on "Big Train", "Count Arthur Strong", "Brass Eye" and "The Fast Show". - Philadelphia Weekly (PW) is an alternative newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, published every Wednesday. After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'the day today' with the relationship of 'genre'. Choices: - alternative newspaper - book - british comedy - comedian - comedy - comic - dance - diary - drama - family - information - journalism - march - music - musical - news - play - poet - radio - sketch - slapstick - television - television comedy - television series - variety - welsh - will
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television comedy