• A Show Called Fred
  ...vision work by [[Peter Sellers]] and [[Spike Milligan]], then both regular performers on the [[BBC Home Service]] as two-thirds of the cast of ''[[The Goon Show] ...from ''The Goon Show'', and Canadian star Patti Lewis had a singing spot. Performers including [[Mario Fabrizi]], [[Ernest Clark]], [[Patricia Driscoll]], Jon J
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• Douglas Byng
  ...amp (style)|camp]] performances in the [[w:music hall|music hall]]s and in cabaret.<ref name="Callow"/> Byng made a large number of recordings, many of which ...'s Lane]] in central London,<ref name=baker/> where he first performed the cabaret [[w:Drag queen|drag]] songs for which he is best remembered, described by t
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• Band Waggon (film)
  .../Band-Waggon_1940/ |title=Band Waggon 1940 &#124; Britmovie &#124; Home of British Films |publisher=Britmovie |access-date=2012-01-15}}</ref> Arthur Askey and Stinker Murdoch, two out-of-work performers, are living on the roof of the [[Broadcasting House]] in [[Central London]]
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• Doris Hare
  | nationality = British ...comedian, singer, and dancer best known for portraying Mabel Butler in the British sitcom ''[[On the Buses]]'' and its film spin-offs, after replacing origina
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• The Comic Strip
  {{Short description|Group of British comedians}} | nationality = British
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• The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club
  | genre = Variety/[[Cabaret]] '''''The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club''''' was a British television variety show produced by [[ITV Granada|Granada Television]] from
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• The Krankies
  '''The Krankies''' are a Scottish comedy duo who enjoyed success as a [[cabaret]] act in the 1970s and on television in the 1980s, featuring in their own t ...eaked at number 46 in the [[UK Singles Chart]] in February 1981.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book
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• Beyond the Fringe
  '''''Beyond the Fringe''''' was a British [[comedy]] stage [[revue]] written and performed by [[Alan Bennett]], [[Pet ...'s assistant, recommended [[Dudley Moore]], his jazz bandmate and a rising cabaret talent. Moore in turn recommended [[Alan Bennett]], who had had a hit at Ed
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• Christmas Night with the Stars
  ...exception of 1961, 1965 and 1966).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937–2013 |author=Chris Perry |date=3 February ...ekers]] and [[The Young Generation]] with excerpts from [[Ray Alan]]’s Ice Cabaret, [[Marty Feldman]], ''[[Oh, Brother!|Oh Brother]]'', ''[[Not in Front of th
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• Max Geldray
  ...in the US, where he worked as an entertainer in the Reno casinos alongside performers such as [[Sarah Vaughan|Sarah Vaughan]] and [[Billy Daniels|Billy Daniels]] ...end Casino, the Johnny Fresno Band .<ref name="Times Obit" /> He would met performers who were booked to play the casino on occasion, including saxophonist [[Col
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• George Martin (comedian)
  '''George Frederick Martin''' (26 February 1922 – 4 November 1991) was a British comedian, musician, composer, [[screenwriter|scriptwriter]] and [[broadcast ...from the mid-1960s onwards was as a scriptwriter, largely for other named performers of the day. He wrote for the first TV series of Irish comedian [[Dave Allen
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• The Two Ronnies
  ...ption = The spectacles logo from the show's opening. Both performers wore glasses; Barker's are on top, Corbett's underneath. '''''The Two Ronnies''''' is a British television [[British comedy|comedy]] [[sketch show]] starring [[Ronnie Barker]] and [[Ronnie Cor
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• Gracie Fields
  | honorific_prefix = [[Order of the British Empire|Dame]] | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] [[Venerable Order of Saint John|OStJ]]
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• Frankie Howerd
  ...atic Art]]. He began to entertain during [[World War II]] service in the [[British Army]]. It was at this time that he adapted his surname to Howerd "to be di ...s, including [[farce|stage farces]], [[Shakespearean comedy]] roles, and [[British sitcom|television sitcoms]]. At the start of the 1960s, he began to recover
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• Tommy Cooper
  {{Short description|British comedian and magician (1921–1984)}} ...wore a red [[Fez (hat)|fez]] when performing. He initially served in the [[British Army]] for seven years, before eventually developing his conjuring skills a
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• Max Miller (comedian)
  ...|Royal Sussex Regiment]]<ref>Forces War Record/9875764/private-h-t-Sargent-British-army-royal-Sussex-regiment/</ref> and, after serving in France, was posted ...aider's ''Tipperary Tim''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gänzl|first=Kurt|title=The British Musical Theatre Volume II|year=1986|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0
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• Camp (style)
  ...nd performance identity for several types of entertainment including film, cabaret, and [[pantomime]]. Where high art necessarily incorporates beauty and valu ...ica.com/EBchecked/topic/561395/Dusty-Springfield |title=Dusty Springfield (British singer) – Encyclopædia Britannica |encyclopedia=Britannica.com |access-d
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• Dudley Moore
  | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...wspaper=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref> They jointly received the 1966 [[British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance]]. They worked
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• Spitting Image
  ...rs [[Margaret Thatcher]] and [[John Major]] and the [[British Royal Family|British royal family]]. The series was the first to caricature [[Queen Elizabeth Th ...the 1980s, ''Spitting Image'' satirised politics, entertainment, sport and British popular culture of the era. At its peak, the show was watched by 15 million
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• Norman Wisdom
  *[[w:British Army|British Army]] ...f name="TelegraphObit" /> The same year, he was appointed [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] and was knighted five years later.<ref name="TelegraphObit" />
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