• Ken Dodd
  ...Arthur Askey]], [[Robb Wilton]], [[Tommy Handley]] and the "cheeky chappy" from [[Brighton]], [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http ....html | work=Manchester Evening News | date=1 February 2007 | title=Dodd's Bolton bonus | first=Natalie |last=Anglesey}}</ref> He also said: "I am not mean,
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• Stanley Holloway
  ...an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbott ...9 July 2012</ref> George left Florence in 1905 and was never seen or heard from again by his family.<ref name="Holloway and Richards, p. 68">Holloway and R
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• George Formby
  ...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...|George Formby]] (he is now known as George Formby Sr). Formby Sr suffered from a chest ailment, identified variously as [[bronchitis]], [[asthma]] or [[tu
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• Hi-de-Hi!
  a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] shown on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk ...around the lives of the camp's entertainers, most of whom were struggling actors and has-beens.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk
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