• Dead on Time (1983 film)
  The film is a comedy which tells the story of Bernard Fripp ([[Rowan Atkinson]]) a man who, on a ...d up taping ''[[Not The Nine O'Clock News]]'' and began working on ''[[The Black Adder]]'', premièring later that year and getting a wide theatrical releas
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• Consuming Passions
  ...]<br>[[Andrew Davies (writer)|Andrew Davies]]<br>(from a play ''[[Secrets (Black and Blue)|Secrets]]''<br>by [[Michael Palin]] and<br/>[[Terry Jones]]) '''''Consuming Passions''''' is a 1988 [[black comedy]] film which stars [[Vanessa Redgrave]], [[Jonathan Pryce]], and [[Sammi Da
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• No Surrender (film)
  | distributor = Circle Films (US)<br />[[Palace Pictures|Palace Pictures/Video]] (UK) ...=Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s – An Information Briefing|publisher=British Film Institute|date=2005}}</r
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• Secrets (Black and Blue)
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:Secrets (''Black and Blue'')}} ...Black and Blue]]'', which featured [[black humour|black]] and blue (saucy) comedy.
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• Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (film)
  [[Category:1980 films]] [[Category:1980 comedy films]]
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• Elspet Gray
  ...[Brian Rix]], and later was cast in many television roles in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_S4f-nobIxEC&dq=elsp .../|title=Solo - BBC1 Sitcom|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>
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• Erik the Viking
  ...Viking''''' is a 1989 [[Cinema of United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film|comedy]]-[[fantasy film]] written and directed by [[Terry Jones]]. The film was in ...in order to sabotage Erik's plans. Loki sneaks out to inform [[Halfdan the Black]], a local warlord afraid that peace will mean the end of his reign. Halfda
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• Hype Pressure
  ...essure'''" is an episode of the award-winning [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. ...Be The Day'' and the TV series ''Happy Days''. This would go on until the 1980s with ''Grease'', ''Animal House'' and the TV programme ''Hi-De-Hi'' among o
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• Britannia Hospital
  | studio = [[EMI Films]]<br>[[British Lion Films]] ...a Hospital''''' is a 1982 [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[black comedy]] film, directed by [[Lindsay Anderson]], which targets the [[National Heal
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• British comedy
  Throughout film, television, and radio, '''British comedy''' has become known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots, and se ...rious episodes of Punch and Judy are performed in the spirit of outrageous comedy — often provoking shocked laughter — and are dominated by the anarchic
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• Party Party (film)
  ...uth house party genre typified by [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]]' films. The movie was directed by [[Terry Winsor]] and written by [[Daniel Peacock * [[Kate Williams (actress)|Kate Williams]] – Mum, stock British comedy mother, has to put up with a husband with a wandering eye.
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• Bob Todd
  ...– 21 October 1992), known professionally as '''Bob Todd''', was an English comedy actor, mostly known for appearing as a [[comic foil|straight man]] in the s ...as born in [[Faversham|Faversham]], Kent. One of the stooges of television comedy, Todd was best known for his lugubrious expression and talent for slapstick
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• The Black Seal
  ...Seal |episode-link=The Black Seal |series=The Black Adder |series-link=The Black Adder |credits=Rowan Atkinson & Richard Curtis (writers) |network=[[BBC]] | Edmund plans to ride home and then to summon them all by sending a black-haired messenger. They are to gather in the tavern of the recently deceased
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• The Knack ...and How to Get It
  '''''The Knack …and How to Get It''''' is a 1965 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Richard Lester]] and starring [[Rita Tushingham]], [[R ...was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical]], and the film was nominated for [[Golden Globe Award for Best
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• Water (1985 film)
  | studio = [[HandMade Films]] '''''Water''''' is a 1985 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Dick Clement]] and starring [[Michael Caine]]. It was
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• Carry On Constable
  ...film, the fourth in the [[Carry On (film series)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992). It was released in February 1960. Of the regular team, it ..., thus beginning James's 19-film long membership of the [[List of Carry On films cast members|''Carry On'' team]].
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• Curse of the Pink Panther
  ...3 [[comedy film]] and a continuation of ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' series of films created by [[Blake Edwards]] in the early 1960s. The film was one of two pr ...s answer to [[James Bond]]. Edwards would not have directed the later Wass films ([[Terry Marcel]] was slated to helm the next one) and Edwards' son, Geoffr
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• Stratford Johns
  ...the mid-1950s, including a bit part in the classic [[Ealing Studios|Ealing comedy]] ''[[The Ladykillers (1955 film)|The Ladykillers]]'' (1955). He ran a smal ...988),<ref name="guardian2002"/> followed by the title-character in the mid-1980s [[Channel 4]] series ''[[Brond]]''.
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• Anthony Sharp
  ...eatre 1951), ''[[ For Better, for Worse (play) |For Better, For Worse]]'' (Comedy Theatre 1952), ''Small Hotel'' (St Martin's Theatre 1955), ''[[No Time for In addition Sharp was a prolific director, particularly of comedy-thrillers and 'boardroom' dramas. His credits included ''Any Other Business
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• Vince Powell
  ...powell-comedy-writer-of-love-thy-neighbour-gr0x9zghhkr|title=Vince Powell: comedy writer of ''Love Thy Neighbour''|work=The Times|date=24 July 2009|access-da ...during an era, in which Britain was coming to terms with the population of Black Immigrants. The series featured [[Jack Smethurst]] and [[Kate Williams (act
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