• Peter Ling
  {{short description|British television, radio, and comic strip author}} ...creenwriter)|Hazel Adair]], he co-created the soap opera ''[[w:Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]''.
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• Spider-Plant Man
  ...traying [[Batman|Batman]], and [[Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] as [[Robin (comics)|Robin]]. ...le]], owning only a dilapidated "Bat-[[Renault Clio|Clio]]". Even [[Robin (comics)|Robin]] has abandoned him. "Apparently he was only in it for the money." P
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• Charles Chilton
  | honorific_suffix = [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] | employer = [[w:British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]
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• Johnny Speight
  ...1920 – 5 July 1998) was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British [[sitcom|sitcoms]]. He emerged in the mid-1950s. He wrote for radio comics [[Frankie Howerd]], [[Vic Oliver]], [[Arthur Askey]], and [[Cyril Fletcher]
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• Bootsie and Snudge
  '''''Bootsie and Snudge''''' is a British sitcom that aired on [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] for three series from 1960 to
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• Jimmy Grafton
  ...s.{{sfn|Farnes|1997|p=10}} While waiting for his [[w:Demobilisation of the British Armed Forces after the Second World War|demobilisation]] he started writing ..."King of the Goons Voices Society".{{sfn|Sikov|2002|p=55}}}} With the four comics spending time at the pub, and with Grafton scriptwriting for an increasing
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• Lance Percival
  {{Short description|British actor and comedian (1933–2015)}} ...om|national service]] with the [[Seaforth Highlanders]] as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] and was posted to Egypt. In 1955 he em
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• British comedy
  Throughout film, television, and radio, '''British comedy''' has become known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots, ...cal cartoons." |source=—[[Punch and Judy]] showman Glyn Edwards.<ref name="British seaside">{{cite news|title=Punch and Judy around the world|url=https://www.
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• Denis Gifford
  | genre = Film history, comics history, radio history | subject = 19th Century comics, early 20th Century comics, British/US comics of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, early film history, horror films, science-fi
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• The Curse of Steptoe
  ...ews with colleagues, friends and family of the actors, and the ''Steptoe'' writers, [[Ray Galton]] and [[Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)|Alan Simpson]].<ref>[http ...write [[Comedy Playhouse|a series of one-off plays]] starring actors, not comics who will expect every line to contain a laugh.
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• Bob Monkhouse
  | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...t]]'', ''[[Celebrity Squares]]'', ''[[Family Fortunes]]'' and ''[[Wipeout (British game show)|''Wipeout'']]''.
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• Will Hay
  ...insborough Pictures|Gainsborough Pictures]], is often cited as the supreme British-produced film-comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in ...ields]]. He is widely regarded as one of the most prolific and influential British comedians of all-time.<ref name="bbc1976"/>
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• Jimmy Perry
  ...ek Taverner, for which Perry received an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1971.<ref>[http://theivo ...whose shop was in [[South Kensington]], London. He was a founder of the [[British Antique Dealers' Association]].<ref name="Telegraphobituary">{{cite news|ti
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• Tony Hancock
  ...script_larry_stephens/|title=Forgotten Hancock script rediscovered|website=British Comedy Guide|date=3 November 2015|access-date=7 November 2015}}</ref> In 19 ...[Hattie Jacques]]. The series rejected the variety format then dominant in British radio comedy and instead used a form drawn more from everyday life: the [[w
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• The Goodies
  |data2 = British '''The Goodies''' were a trio of British comedians: [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]] (1940–2020), [[Graeme Garden|Graeme Gard
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• Yellowbeard
  | writers = {{Plainlist| ...uk/releases/yellowbeard-1970-3 | title=''Yellowbeard'' (PG) (CUT) | work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=28 July 1983 | access-date=24 Septemb
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• George Melly
  ...ans Revival" style jazz were very popular in Britain. In January 1963, the British music magazine ''[[NME]]'' reported that the biggest trad jazz event to be ...of the [[National Secular Society]] and a Distinguished Supporter of the [[British Humanist Association]]. Melly was President of the BHA 1972–4, and was al
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• Boulting brothers
  ...Earth |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> about the village of [[Tha ...cFarlane1997">{{cite book|author=Brian McFarlane|title=An Autobiography of British Cinema: As Told by the Filmmakers and Actors who Made it|url=https://books.
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• The Goon Show series 5
  ...ves]] and written by [[Eric Sykes]]. Towards the end of the fourth series, writers [[Larry Stephens]] and Spike Milligan had gone their separate ways. Stephen ==The writers==
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• Joyce Grenfell
  |honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] '''Joyce Irene Grenfell''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (''{{nee}}'' '''Phipps'''; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 19
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