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  • | distributor = [[Gaumont British Distributors]] ...[[Epsom Derby|The Derby]], but fate intervenes. It is also known by the [[alternative title]] '''''Tattenham Corner''''', from the play on which it is based.
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  • | distributor = [[British Empire Films]] ...e [[alternative title]] of '''''Education of Stanley Evans''''', is a 1972 British–Australian [[comedy film]] directed by [[James Gilbert (producer)|Jam
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  • Throughout film, television, and radio, '''British comedy''' has become known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots, ==History==
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  • {{Short description|Group of British comedians}} | nationality = British
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  • | writer = [[Dave Freeman (British writer)|Dave Freeman]] | studio = Jules Verne Films
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  • ....org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb3d462|title=The Wrong Box (1966)|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?i ...nd boring the sole occupant with a [[diatribe]] of trivial facts about the history of knitting. Joseph goes to smoke a cigarette, leaving behind his coat, whi
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  • ...England|England]], the episode concludes the [[Secret history|alternative history]] of the last years of the [[House of York]] with the final adventure of [[ ...casting Allen, Atkinson sought to create an association with these popular films. In an earlier version of "The Black Seal", Allen was to play a greater rol
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  • ...oscoe Arbuckle]] was one of his directors, but Lane was soon directing the films himself under the pseudonym "Henry W. George" (his given names). These come ...e production ran for a year starting from November 1935 and went on a long British tour after that.<ref name="odd" />
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  • ...[[2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony]] during the one-hour symphony of British Music segment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012 ==History==
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  • * [[Working Title Films]] * [[Tiger Aspect Productions|Tiger Aspect Films]]
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  • ...te=8 January 1924 |access-date=10 December 2011}}</ref> His father was a [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russian Jew]] and his mother was a [[Lithuanian Jews| ...t Foul (film)|Murder Most Foul]]'' (1964), one of Rutherford's Miss Marple films. He played French entertainer and [[mime artist]] The Great Orlando in the
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  • ...kinson]]. Although each series is set within a different period of British history, each character is part of the same familial [[dynasty]] and is usually cal ...over each series, with the character mostly falling in social rank through history. He moves from a prince (''[[The Black Adder]]'') to a lord (''[[Blackadder
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  • ...66, and the [[Rank Organisation|Rank Organisation]] from 1967 to 1978, the films were all made at [[Pinewood Studios|Pinewood Studios]].<ref> ...edition), 19 March 2008, accessed 22 July 2013</ref> There were thirty-one films, four TV [[Carry On Christmas Specials|Christmas specials]], [[Carry On Lau
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...omedian whose catchphrase was "You lucky people!". Described by [[Cultural history|cultural historian]] [[Matthew Sweet (writer)|Matthew Sweet]] as "a cocky,
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  • '''Kryten''' is a [[w:fictional character|fictional character]] in the British [[w:science fiction|science fiction]] [[w:situation comedy|situation comedy == Fictional history ==
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  • ...which he co-directed with Gilliam, and also directed the subsequent Python films ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian|Life of Brian]]'' and ''[[Monty Python's T ...ad English at [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]], but "strayed into history".<ref name="english">{{cite book|first=Roger|last=Wilmut|title=From Fringe
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  • |honorific_suffix=[[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...ath in 1976. Starting in 1935, he also appeared in more than fifty British films, including an iconic adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novella ''[[A Christ
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  • '''''The Young Ones''''' is a [[British sitcom]] written by [[Rik Mayall]], [[Ben Elton]], and [[Lise Mayer]], star ...mes of its writers and performers. The show became a notable icon of 1980s British popular culture, and it received its own game and a home-media release whil
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  • ...n accomplished tenor, he also appeared in [[musical theater|musicals]] and films – notably as [[Bumble (Oliver Twist)|Bumble]] in ''[[Oliver! (film)|Olive ...ame="bookref2">{{cite book|last=Gale|first=Steven H.|title=Encyclopedia of British humorists|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1995|page=926|isbn=0-8240-5990-5}
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  • | genre = [[w:Alternative comedy|Alternative comedy]], [[w:black comedy|black comedy]], [[w:character comedy|character c ...hester|Manchester University]] and was a pioneer of [[w:alternative comedy|alternative comedy]] in the 1980s.
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