• Colin Crompton
  | birth_place = [[Manchester]], [[Lancashire]], England | death_place = Manchester, Lancashire, England
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• Ken Platt
  | birth_place = [[w:Leigh, Greater Manchester|Leigh]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]] '''Ken Platt''' (born Kenneth Platt, 17 February 1921, [[w:Leigh, Greater Manchester|Leigh]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]] – 2 October 1998, [[w:Blackpool|
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• Tom Mennard
  | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...ard became a regular feature on Mike Craig's radio shows in [[w:Manchester|Manchester]] and these helped him to reach a wider national audience.<ref>Hudd & Hindi
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• Syd Little
  ...corator, Little began his performing career as a singer and guitarist in [[Manchester]] pubs before teaming up with Large. Originally titled ''Cyril Mead and Fri [[Category:Comedians from Lancashire]]
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• The Comedians (1971 TV series)
  | image = The Comedians (1971 TV series).jpg | location = [[Granada Studios]], Manchester
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• Derek and Clive Get the Horn
  ...mes Anderton|James Anderton]] of the [[w:Greater Manchester Police|Greater Manchester Police]], sending the small company behind the release spiraling into bankr [[Category:Documentary films about comedy and comedians]]
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• Bernard Manning
  | birth_place = [[Harpurhey]], [[Manchester]], [[Lancashire]], England | death_place = [[Crumpsall]], Manchester, England
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• Eddie Large
  ...Gray |first1=Sarra |title=Eddie Large: Little and Large star made millions from impressive 50 year career |url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/12 ...avirus while receiving treatment for [[heart failure]]. Large had suffered from kidney and heart problems for a number of years.<ref name="METR" /> Large's
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• Al Read
  ...ghton was part of the County Borough of Salford (1844–1974 — "City" status from 1926)</ref> [[Lancashire]]. On leaving school he worked at the family [[m ...]. He honed his skills with carefully-observed characterisations ranging from drunks to "know-alls" and cheeky children. After moving to [[Lytham St Ann
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• Les Dawson
  |birth_place = [[w:Collyhurst|Collyhurst]], [[w:Manchester|Manchester]], England |death_place = [[w:Whalley Range, Manchester|Whalley Range]], Manchester, England
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• O-Kay for Sound
  ...rnel]] and starring [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|the Crazy Gang]] troupe of comedians.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/okay-for-sound-v104552|t * Mundy, John. ''The British musical film''. Manchester University Press, 2007.
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• Jimmy James (comedian)
  He was often hailed as a ''"comedians' comedian"''.<ref name="Manchunian"/><ref name="JimmyBFI">{{cite web |url=h ...oved – this is an important word – was ''loved'' – by both. One of the few comedians that all the comics used to stand on the side and watch. One of the greats.
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• 'Monsewer' Eddie Gray
  ...1919. The three performers formed the original basis of the group of seven comedians who became famous under the collective name the Crazy Gang in the 1930s. ...Bennett (comedian)|Billy Bennett]].<ref>"Royal Variety Performance", ''The Manchester Guardian'', 1 May 1933, p. 5</ref>
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• Frank Randle
  ...y throwing his false teeth into the audience and once bombarding Blackpool from an aeroplane with toilet rolls (according to an episode of ''Rude Britannia ...uffering the privations of war. He took equity in [[John E. Blakeley]]'s [[Manchester]]-based [[Mancunian Films|Mancunian Film Studios]], appearing in eight of i
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• Harry Worth
  ...When he was only five months old, his father died from injuries resulting from an industrial accident. He left school at 14 and was a miner for eight year ...and taught himself [[ventriloquism|ventriloquism]] from a book he borrowed from the local library, buying his first dummy in 1936.<ref name=DMirror/> Durin
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• James Casey (variety artist)
  ...his father's variety act, known as ''Jimmy James and Co''. After retiring from the BBC in the 1980s, he resurrected the act and toured the surviving varie His most notable discoveries during his career at BBC Radio in [[Manchester]], between 1954 and 1982, were the radio comedian [[Jimmy Clitheroe]], the
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• Charlie Chester
  ...io]] and television presenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s. His style was similar to that of [[Max Miller (come .../ref> Charlie Chester, he was well known to British audiences in the 1940s from his [[BBC]] radio show ''Stand Easy''. This show was adapted for [[televisi
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• Caroline Aherne
  |death_place = [[w:Timperley|Timperley]], [[w:Greater Manchester|Greater Manchester]], England Aherne narrated the [[Channel 4]] reality television series ''[[Gogglebox]]'' from its inception in 2013 until 8 April 2016. Aherne died of cancer at the age
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• Jill Summers
  | birth_place = [[Eccles, Greater Manchester|Eccles]], [[Lancashire]], England | death_place = [[Salford, Greater Manchester]], England
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• Ted Ray (comedian)
  ...onstrated his ad-libbing skills in his weekly radio show ''Ray's A Laugh'' from 1949 until 1961.<ref name="Stevens">{{cite book ...www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007js9f|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra – Ray's a Laugh, From 01/04/1954|publisher=BBC}}</ref> Other actors and actresses who featured on
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