• Josephine Tewson
  {{Short description|British actress (1931–2022)}} | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software -->
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• Frank Forsyth
  {{short description|English actor}} {{Use British English|date=January 2021}}
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• Anne Reid
  | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] ...rd for Best Actress]]. She won the [[London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year]] and received a nomination for the [[BAFTA Award for B
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• The Ministry of Silly Walks
  "'''The Ministry of Silly Walks'''" is a sketch from the [[Monty Python]] comedy troupe's television show ''[[Monty Python's Fly ...er-hatted]] [[civil servant]] in a fictitious [[United Kingdom|British]] [[British government departments|government ministry]] responsible for developing sil
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• Chuckle Brothers
  {{short description|English children's entertainers}} {{Use British English|date=June 2013}}
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• Fred Karno
  ...ge name '''Fred Karno''', was an English [[theatre]] [[impresario]] of the British [[music hall]].<ref name=up/> As a comedian of [[slapstick]] he is credited ...are the ragtime infantry. We cannot fight, we cannot shoot, what bleeding use are we? And when we get to Berlin we'll hear the Kaiser say, 'Hoch, hoch! M
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• At Last the 1948 Show
  ...ediscovered|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|date=16 September 2015|website=British Comedy Guide|access-date=30 July 2020}}</ref> ...re-discovery of pre-python classic TV series At Last the 1948 Show|website=British Film Institute|access-date=30 July 2020}}</ref>
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• Albert Finney
  {{Short description|English actor (1936–2019)}} |death_date = {{death date and age|2019|2|7|1936|5|9|df=y}}
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• Mike Reid (actor)
  | nationality = British '''Michael Reid''' (19 January 1940 – 29 July 2007) was an English comedian, actor, author and occasional television presenter. He played the
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• Adrienne Corri
  {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} ...e+Riccoboni+born&pg=PA68 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |date=31 July 2019 |isbn=9781538126592 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Corri,
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• British Comedy Guide
  {{Short description|Website covering all forms of British comedy}} {{Use British English|date=March 2019}}
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• Not the Nine O'Clock News
  ...television [[sketch comedy]] show which was broadcast on [[BBC Two|BBC2]] from 1979 to 1982. Originally shown as a comedy alternative to the ''[[BBC Nine ...e conventional sketch format. Sketches were mostly self-contained, lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes, and often had a degree of naturalism in per
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• As Time Goes By (TV series)
  {{Short description|British sitcom}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2014}}
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• The Germans
  ....<ref>{{cite book |last1=Berman |first1=Garry |title=Best of the Britcoms: From Fawlty Towers to The Office |url=https://archive.org/details/bestbritcomsfr ...e hotel counter to get a hammer, during which Manuel practises his English from behind the counter; a confused Major thinks the moose head is talking.
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• A Fish Called Wanda
  {{Use British English|date=November 2012}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}}
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• The Italian Job
  | language = English .../ref>{{Better source needed|reason=BOM only lists the sum of earnings from 2019 & 2020 Re-releases|date=November 2020}}
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• Lionel Bart
  ...Stratford East]], he played an instrumental role in the 1960s birth of the British musical theatre scene after an era when American musicals had dominated the ...Bart was described by [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] as "the father of the modern British musical".<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=Lionel Bart, 68, Songwriter; Cre
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• Love Thy Neighbour (1972 TV series)
  | caption = Title card from the pilot for ''Love Thy Neighbour'' ...' is a [[British television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] that was broadcast from 13 April 1972 until 22 January 1976. The show spanned eight series, lasted
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• Round the Horne
  ...ing [[Kenneth Horne]], first transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The show was created by [[Barry Took]] and [[Marty Feldman ...who all became nationally familiar. The show encountered periodic scrutiny from the BBC management for its [[double entendre]]s, but consistently received
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• Double entendre
  {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} ...mporary English online |publisher=Longman |work=Dictionary of Contemporary English |access-date=29 August 2014 | url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.arch
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