• It's Trad, Dad!
  | caption = Australian [[film poster]] ...), known in the U.S. as '''''Ring-A-Ding Rhythm''''', is a British musical comedy featuring performances by a variety of [[Dixieland|Dixieland jazz]] bands a
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• Rambling Syd Rumpo
  ...or]] [[Kenneth Williams]], originally in the 1960s [[BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] comedy series ''[[Round the Horne]]''.<ref name="Stevens 1">{{cite book *"''Song of the Australian Outlaw''"<br />{{Small|(to the tune of "''[[Waltzing Matilda|Waltzing Matil
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• Betty Box
  ....au/nla.news-article58527447 |title=A BOX OFFICE SUCCESS. |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] | date=11 April 1973 |access-date=17 December 2015 |page=5 ....news-article51389240 |title=Producers run in Box family. |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] | date=29 March 1947 |access-date=17 December 2015 |page=3
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• Jack Hulbert
  ...ritish actor, director, screenwriter and singer, specializing primarily in comedy productions, and often working alongside his wife (Dame) [[Cicely Courtneid ...ts|Cambridge Footlights]]. He was one of the earliest famous alumni of the comedy club.
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• Gorden Kaye
  ...best known for playing womanising café owner René Artois in the television comedy series ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]''. ...the-waterloo-bridge-handicap-1978|title=The Race Is On.. – British Classic Comedy|date=16 January 2016|publisher=britishclassiccomedy.co.uk|access-date=23 Ja
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• Kenny Everett
  ...= Character comedy,<br/>[[w:surreal comedy|surreal comedy]], [[w:Sketch comedy|sketch]] ...ng in the late 1970s, he transitioned to television where he made numerous comedy series on ITV and BBC, often appearing with [[w:Cleo Rocos|Cleo Rocos]], wh
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• Dudley Moore
  .../archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/the-25-best-comedy-duos/peter-cook-and-dudley-moore/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access His career as a comedy film actor was marked by hit films, particularly ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|
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• Clive Dunn
  ...ited Kingdom)|1st Armoured Brigade]] in the [[6th Division (Australia)|6th Australian Infantry Division]] which fought in the [[Battle of Greece|Greek Campaign]] ...pared with most of the cast, meant that he was handed much of the physical comedy in the show, of which many of the other cast members were no longer capable
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• Rolf Harris
  {{Short description|Australian entertainer and sex offender (born 1930)}} '''Rolf Harris''' (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian entertainer whose career has encompassed work as a musician, singer-songwri
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• Anna Russell
  ...she tripped on a set piece and pulled it down – an event later used in her comedy) – as well as appearances as a [[Folk music|folk]] singer on [[BBC]] radi ...rld's Fair]] in 1964. She also played a leading role in [[Noël Coward]]'s comedy ''[[Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]''. Other stage shows included ''[
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• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
  ...e2b6bf3d3cd|archive-date=2012-07-12}}</ref> Its [[Art Deco]] sets, [[Black comedy|dark humour]], and performance by Price have made the film and its sequel ' ...to the illness of his wife and was replaced by [[Joseph Cotten]].<ref name=comedy/> The film was shot on the "20s era" sets at Elstree Studios in [[Hertfords
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• Max Bygraves
  ...y performer. He appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs. He made twenty ''[[Royal Variety Performance]]'' ap ...the age of 88.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-09-01 |title=Max Bygraves dies at Australian home aged 89 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/sep/01/max-b
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• That Was the Week That Was
  ..., informally '''''TWTWTW''''' or '''''TW3''''', was a satirical television comedy programme on [[BBC Television]] in 1962 and 1963. It was devised, produced, ...of the [[satire boom]] in the UK in the early 1960s, as it broke ground in comedy by lampooning political figures. Its broadcast coincided with coverage of t
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• The Commitments (film)
  '''''The Commitments''''' is a 1991 [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy-drama]] film based on the [[The Commitments (novel)|1987 novel of the same ...s services, and has unlikely stories about meeting and working with famous musicians. Joey names the band "The Commitments".
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• The Goon Show
  | format = [[Radio comedy]] '''''The Goon Show''''' is a British [[radio comedy]] programme, originally produced and broadcast by the [[BBC Home Service]]
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• Father Ted
  | composer = [[The Divine Comedy (band)|The Divine Comedy]] ...episodes]]. It aired on [[Nine Network]] (series 1) and [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC Television]] (series 2 and 3) in Australia, and on [[TV2 (N
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• The Goon Show series 10
  ...on Show'' which, after almost a decade of pushing forward the frontiers of comedy, would now be vanishing from the schedules of the [[BBC Home Service|BBC Ho ...k in the show on Tuesday 10 February, but had reason to celebrate when his comedy LP [[The Best of Sellers]] entered the British charts and remained there fo
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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:English comedy musicians]]
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• The Fast Show
  '''''The Fast Show''''', known as '''''Brilliant''''' in the US, is a [[BBC]] comedy [[sketch show]] that ran from 1994 to 1997, with specials in 2000 and 2014. ...number and relative brevity of its sketches; a typical half-hour TV sketch comedy of the period might have consisted of nine or ten major items, with contriv
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• The Goon Show series 1
  ...e and actor on BBC radio before the war who had found success in the radio comedy ''[[Danger - Men at Work!|Danger – Men at Work!]]'' and who had then star ...se strange new ‘goon’ humour would soon herald a new generation in British comedy.
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