• Silly Verse for Kids
  ...019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Gale |first=S.H. |title=Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese |publisher=Garland |year=1996 |p ...by one or more of Milligan's drawings, a few of which do not relate to the poems. The collection includes "[[On the Ning Nang Nong]]".
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• On the Ning Nang Nong
  ...he UK's favourite comic poem in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poems by poets such as [[Lewis Carroll]] and [[Edward Lear]].<ref>{{cite news|url ...ed that, according to [[OFSTED]], it is among the ten most commonly taught poems in primary schools in the UK.<ref>{{cite news|title=Laureate attacks poetry
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• A Book of Milliganimals
  ...1996 p. 767">{{cite book | last=Gale | first=S.H. | title=Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese | publisher=Garland | series=Gar ...[[Hamish Hamilton]] in association with the National Book League and the [[British Council]] |author=Elaine Moss |page=75}}
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• The Great McGonagall (film)
  | distributor = [[Tigon British Film Productions]] {{small|(UK)}} ...h poet [[William McGonagall]] that includes several of McGonagall's actual poems, his appearing in the title role of ''[[Macbeth]]'' and his "improvement" o
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• Charlotte Mitchell
  {{Use British English|date=February 2014}} ...and continued to be active as a poet.<ref>{{cite book|title=Just in Case: Poems in My Pocket: Amazon.co.uk: Charlotte Mitchell: Books |id= {{ASIN|028563060
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• Marriott Edgar
  ...te web|url=https://www.poetry.net/poet/Marriott+Edgar|title=Marriott Edgar Poems|website=Poetry.net|access-date=25 November 2020}}</ref> best known for writ ...//www.poemhunter.com/marriott-edgar/|title=Marriott Edgar - Marriott Edgar Poems - Poem Hunter|website=Poemhunter.com|access-date=25 November 2020}}</ref> t
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• Ronald Frankau
  ...], became a comedy writer and co-created the Channel 4 sitcom [[Peep Show (British TV series)|Peep Show]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/art ...://www.britishpathe.com/video/ronald-frankau-12|title=Ronald Frankau|first=British|last=Pathé|website=www.britishpathe.com}}</ref> Ronald Frankau formed vari
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• Cyril Fletcher
  | nationality = British ...1-9}}. page 19.</ref> where he first began to entertain by composing witty poems about his schoolmasters,<ref>{{cite web|title=Cyril Fletcher: Performer of
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• Ruth Madoc
  {{Use British English|date=December 2022}} ...]]'' (1980–1988), for which she received a BAFTA TV award nomination for [[British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance|Best Light Ente
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  ...engagement. He continued to write from the timber yard, his short stories, poems, manuscripts sometimes being accepted by various publishers. He wrote his f *''[[Weekend at Thrackley]]'' (London, Skeffington & Son, 1934, Re-published British Library Publishing Division, 2018, {{ISBN|978-0712352116}})
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• The Ballad of Eskimo Nell
  ...details/songsofsourdough0000serv/page/57 }}</ref> As with all traditional poems and songs, there is variation between the texts. It was geographically wide [[Robert Conquest]] and John Blakeway, a British diplomat, wrote a sequel recounting the revenge of Mexican Pete.<ref>{{Cite
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• Jabberwocky (film)
  ...]'' (1871).<ref name="Shail2007">{{cite book|last=Shail|first=Robert|title=British film directors: a critical guide|url=https://archive.org/details/britishfil ...he film a positive review, describing it as "the most marvelously demented British comedy to come along since ''Monty Python and The Holy Grail'', to which ''
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• Spike Milligan
  | birth_place = [[Ahmednagar]], [[British India]] | citizenship = British (1918–1962)<br/> Irish (1962–2002)
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• ISIRTA episodes and songs
  | [[ISIRTA plays, A-C|Britain for the British]] (Ireland) || style="text-align: center" | John Esmonde, <br>Graeme Garden |"[[Maud, and Other Poems|Come into the Garden, Maud]]"
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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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• Margaret Rutherford
  ...was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire|Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967. ...scene of their recent troubles, the Rutherfords emigrated to [[Madras]], [[British India|India]], but Margaret was returned to Britain when she was three year
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• Double entendre
  ...d|England]]. The book was copied around AD 975. In addition to the various poems and stories found in the book, there are also numerous riddles. The Anglo-S ...come widely used across much of the British broadcast media, including [[w:British sitcom|sitcoms]] and [[w:radio comedy|radio comedy]], such as ''[[I'm Sorry
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• Barry Humphries
  ...worked throughout the 1960s. He became a friend of leading members of the British comedy scene including [[Dudley Moore]], [[Peter Cook]], [[Alan Bennett]], Humphries' first major break on the British stage came when he was cast in the role of the undertaker [[Mr Sowerberry]]
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• Terry Jones
  ...ing partner [[Michael Palin]] wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes, including ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]'' and ''[[The Fro ...r ''[[The Frost Report]]'' and several other [[David Frost]] programmes on British television.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thefrostreport
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• Willie Rushton
  ...years of [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national service]] in the [[British Army|army]], where he failed officer selection.<ref name=Sherrin/> He later ...''Private Eye''{{'}}s Lunchtime O'Booze), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies (where the soldiers holding back the politicised rabble bear a str
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