Last of the Summer Wine enjoyed the show. The programme was nominated for numerous awards and won the National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Programme in 1999. There were twenty-one Christmas specials, three television films and a documentary film about the series. "Last of the Summer Wine" inspired other adaptations, including a television prequel, several novelisations, and stage adaptations. In 1972, Duncan Wood, the BBC's Head of Comedy, watched a comedy on television called "The Misfit". Impressed by writer Roy Clarke's ability to inject both comedy and drama into the sitcom, Wood offered Clarke the opportunity to write a sitcom. Clarke nearly turned the
Who Gets the Last Laugh? (TV series) Who Gets the Last Laugh? (TV series) Who Gets the Last Laugh? is an American hidden camera comedy television series that debuted April 16, 2013, on TBS. The series pits some of the industries most well-known comedians vs. comedy actors against one another to see who can pull the most outrageous practical jokes. Three guest comedians must dream the funniest and most outrageous pranks possible, then successfully unleash their ideas on an unsuspecting public. A live audience then determines which comedy star really got the "last laugh", with the winner earning $10,000 to be given to the charity of their