• Kenny Everett
  ...e video include Gizzard Puke, Marcel Wave, Sid Snot and a caricature of an Australian called Bris Troop, whilst the video has a running joke about people at a li ...illain, credited only as the "Sinister Man", and a number of other popular comedians and actors also appeared, including [[w:Pamela Stephenson]], [[w:Gareth Hun
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• Tommy Trinder
  ...ple!' Tommy Trinder on Stage and Film as a Public Vector of Post-War Anglo-Australian Projects of Land, Food and Peop |url=https://openjournals.library.sydney.ed ...a failing travelling conjuror who makes a new life as a stockman in the [[Australian Outback]].<ref name="sweet"/>
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• Gracie Fields
  ...ttp://www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/histories/23/chapters/10.pdf |title=Home - Australian War Memorial|website=Awm.gov.au |access-date=9 March 2015}}</ref> In late 1 [[Category:20th-century English actresses]]
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• Rik Mayall
  ...nb64oi6-1226949174975|access-date=10 June 2014|work=[[w:The Australian|The Australian]]|date=10 June 2014}}</ref> In 1975, Mayall went to the [[w:Victoria Univer ...remonies|compere]] [[w:Alexei Sayle|Alexei Sayle]] and other up-and-coming comedians, including [[w:Nigel Planer|Nigel Planer]], [[w:Peter Richardson (actor)|Pe
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• Willie Rushton
  ...homeland. He married her in 1968. He also had several series of his own on Australian television, ''Don’t Adjust Your Set – The Programme is at Fault'' and ' [[Category:20th-century British Army personnel]]
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• Barry Humphries
  ...ries''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|AO|CBE}} (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian [[comedian]], [[actor]], [[author]] and [[satirist]]. He is best known for ...a dowdy [[Moonee Ponds, Victoria|Moonee Ponds]] housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Dame Edna Everage has evolved over fou
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• Peter Sellers on stage, radio, screen and record
  ...g man wearing a white cardigan|[[Peter Sellers]] was one of the best known comedians of his generation.]] ...ame="CNN: Rush" /> In 2005, [[Channel 4]] conducted a survey of modern-day comedians, who ranked Sellers the 14th most influential comedian of all time.<ref nam
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• Peter Cook
  ...tps://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/the-25-best-comedy-duos/peter-cook-and-dudley-moore/ |archive-date=12 Janua ...re]]" by ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2005, Cook was ranked number one in the ''Comedians' Comedian'', a poll of more than 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and
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• Spike Milligan
  ...table to BBC officials, by connecting it with the popular group of theatre comedians known as [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]. ..., a similar special was made for the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|Australian Broadcasting Commission]], "The Gladys Half-Hour", which also featured loca
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• Ronnie Barker
  ...ustralia from ''The Two Ronnies'' and new content targeted more towards an Australian audience.<ref>{{harvnb|Corbett|Nobbs|2007|pp=203–206}}</ref> They returne ...tp://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2004/12/01/26/the_comedians_comedian|title=The comedians' comedian|date=1 December 2004|work=Chortle|access-date=16 February 2011}}<
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• Stanley Holloway
  ...Argus'', 14 April 1949, p. 5, accessed 23 September 2011</ref> He made his Australian début at The Tivoli Theatre, [[Melbourne]],<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.new ...riage to Violet and birth of son Julian; 10. ''Bring on the Clowns''. Male comedians whom he admired and working with other performers; 11. ''Me-or a Semi Profi
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• Jon Pertwee
  ...]] by use of the [[mnemonic]] "SPLINK". Also in 1976, Pertwee starred with Australian singer [[Julie Anthony (singer)|Julie Anthony]] in a West End production of [[Category:20th-century British comedians]]
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• David Frost
  ...central figure in the [[Profumo affair|Profumo scandal]] of 1963. For the Australian publisher, this was a bruising encounter, although Frost said that he had n In February 2009, Frost was featured on the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]'s international affairs programme ''[[Foreign C
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• Mr. Bean
  ...ore characters in each episode. However several notable British actors and comedians appear alongside Atkinson in the series as various one-off supporting chara
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• Peter Sellers
  ...is films, and his performances had a strong influence on a number of later comedians. Sellers was nominated three times for an [[w:Academy Award|Academy Award]] ...ia, owned by [[Jimmy Grafton]], who was also a BBC script writer. The four comedians dubbed him ''KOGVOS'' (Keeper of Goons and Voice of Sanity){{efn|The meanin
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• The Young Ones (TV series)
  ...ast, the programme also featured a variety of guest appearances, including comedians, actors, and singers, who each took on the role of a supporting character i ...elief]]. The song, a reworking of his 1959 hit, reached the top of the UK, Australian, and New Zealand Charts.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=Sharon|title=80
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• Monty Python
  ...ws.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4141019.stm|title=Cook voted 'comedians' comedian'|work=BBC News|date=2 January 2005|access-date=21 September 2008} ...pman and featured Chapman, Idle, and Cleese, as well as many other English comedians including Peter Cook, [[Spike Milligan]], and [[Marty Feldman]].<ref>{{cite
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