• The Stanley Baxter Picture Show
  | genre = Comedy ...wed by one-off specials in each of the successive years. A [[w:sketch show|sketch show]] it largely followed the same format of Baxter's successful [[w:BBC|B
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• The Stanley Baxter Show
  | genre = Comedy ...nces on television programme ''[[On the Bright Side]]'' as well as several films.
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• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
  | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] ...'The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film''''' is a 1959 British [[sketch comedy]] [[short film]] directed by [[Richard Lester]] and [[Peter Sellers]], in c
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• Balham - Gateway to the South
  {{Short description|1949 radio sketch}} ...].{{sfn|Muir|1997|p=157}}{{sfn|Sikov|2002|p=46}} One memorable part of the sketch is the pronunciation of Balham as "Bal-Ham" in an American accent, instead
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• Band Waggon
  '''''Band Waggon''''' was a comedy radio show broadcast by the [[BBC]] from 1938 to 1940. The first series fea ...Night at Seven]]'', it established the practice of broadcasting a regular comedy and music programme at the same time each week. The show ended in 1940, all
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• Old Mother Riley (film)
  '''''Old Mother Riley''''' is a 1937 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Oswald Mitchell]] and starring [[Arthur Lucan]] in the ...(it cost £2,000, taking six weeks to shoot) and based on their music hall sketch ‘The Matchseller’. ''Old Mother Riley'' was a box office success and ''
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• The Charlie Drake Show
  | genre = [[Sitcom]]<br>[[Sketch comedy|Sketch]]<br>[[Stand-up comedy|Stand-up]] '''''The Charlie Drake Show''''' is the name of four British comedy programmes that aired from 1958 to 1968. Starring comedian Charlie Drake, t
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• Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
  "'''Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days{{'}}'''" is a [[Sketch comedy|sketch]] from the 7th episode of the [[List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episod The sketch begins with a preamble by [[Eric Idle]] (impersonating the British film cri
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• Eccles
  | image = Eccles sketch trace.png ..._major = <!-- per [[MOS:MAJORWORK]] - major works include TV series, films, books, albums and games -->
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• Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
  * [[HandMade Films]] | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] (United States)<br />HandMade Films (United Kingdom)<ref name=bbfc />
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• Julian and Sandy
  ...ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/roundthehorne/|title=BBC - Comedy - Round The Horne|website=Bbc.co.uk}}</ref> According to a [[w:BBC Radio 4| ...es), while waiting for their next acting job. However, the producer of the sketch did not like them and viewed the characters as "too sad" and suggested maki
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• The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town
  ...ligan]] and later adapted by [[Ronnie Barker]] for ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' sketch show.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/spike-milligan ...laying the role of the Phantom.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b859ca3ef|title=The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London To
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• An Alligator Named Daisy
  '''''An Alligator Named Daisy''''' is a 1955 British [[comedy film|comedy film]] directed by [[J. Lee Thompson|J. Lee Thompson]] and starring [[Donal Stern, G B. The Sketch; London Vol. 221, Iss. 2869, (Sep 22, 1954): 232.</ref> Film rights were b
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• The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
  ...n sketches, each representing a [[sin]] and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent, including [[Graham Chapman]], [[Spike Milligan]], [[Barry C ..."Gluttony", is written by [[Graham Chapman]] and [[Barry Cryer]]. In this sketch Phillips is a compulsive eater who has food hidden all around his office.
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• British comedy
  Throughout film, television, and radio, '''British comedy''' has become known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots, and se ...rious episodes of Punch and Judy are performed in the spirit of outrageous comedy — often provoking shocked laughter — and are dominated by the anarchic
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• It's a Square World
  | genre = Comedy '''''It's a Square World''''' is a British comedy television series starring [[Michael Bentine]] and produced by the [[w:BBC|
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• The Funny Side of Christmas
  ...nk Muir]], it comprised one comedy sketch each from 10 contemporaneous BBC comedy series: ''[[Butterflies (TV series)|Butterflies]]'', ''[[The Fall and Rise ==Comedy sketches==
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• Soft Beds, Hard Battles
  | budget = £750,000<ref name="guard">Boulting threat to halt films '''''Soft Beds, Hard Battles''''' is a 1974 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Roy Boulting]], starring [[Peter Sellers]] (in several
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• Take It from Here
  | format = [[Comedy]] ...ively in programmes such as ''[[Round the Horne]]'' and in many television comedy series.
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• Robb Wilton
  Wilton's comedy emerged from the tradition of English music halls. He was a contemporary of ...the [[w:British Home Guard|Home Guard]]. His gentle, if pointed, manner of comedy is similar to the wistful adventures of the more famous [[Walmington-on-Sea
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