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  • {{Infobox television | genre = [[Sketch comedy]]
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  • ...The_Four_Yorkshiremen,_2014_(crop).jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Four Yorkshiremen sketch at ''[[w:Monty Python Live (Mostly)|Monty Python Live]]'' in 2014]] The "'''Four Yorkshiremen"''' is a [[w:Sketch comedy|comedy sketch]] that parodies nostalgic conversations about humble beginnings or difficul
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  • 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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  • {{Infobox television | genre = [[Sketch comedy]]
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  • {{Short description|British television comedy series}} {{Infobox television
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  • ...esenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s. His style was similar to that of [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]]. ...evision]] as ''The Charlie Chester Show'' in 1949 and became a standup and sketch show for the next 11 years. Frequent cast members included Edwina Carroll,
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  • ...d hosted a children’s quiz ''Around the World in 48 Hours'' for [[Westward Television]] in 1976.<ref>https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/ob ...the Twain]]''. Moreover, he featured in one episode of ''[[Little Britain (sketch show)|Little Britain]]'' in 2005, as a booking clerk in an episode of the B
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  • {{Short description|British television director}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
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  • {{Infobox television | genre = [[Sketch comedy]]
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  • | occupation = [[w:Television director|Director]], [[w:television producer|producer]], [[w:child actor|child actor]] ...BBC as a production assistant in 1966, Davies became a hugely influential television director and producer, specialising in comedy.
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  • {{Infobox television | company = [[Hartswood Films]] in association with [[Thames Television|Thames]]
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  • {{Infobox television ...ure, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, and spoof television formats. The programme features [[Rowan Atkinson]], [[Pamela Stephenson]],
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  • {{Infobox television | company = [[London Weekend Television]]
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  • | known_for = British television theme songs Hazlehurst composed the [[theme music|theme tunes]] for many well-known [[British sitcom]]s and gameshows of the 1970s and the 1980s, including ''[[Yes Minis
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  • {{Infobox television ...ondon, and features a predominantly black [[Guyanese in the United Kingdom|British Guyanese]] cast. With 71 episodes, ''Desmond's'' became Channel 4's longest
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  • {{Infobox television '''''Not Only... But Also''''' is a [[BBC]] British sketch comedy show starring [[Peter Cook]] and [[Dudley Moore]] that aired in thre
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  • | awards = [[w:British Comedy Awards|British Comedy Awards]]<br />1997 [[w:Lifetime Achievement Award|Lifetime Achieveme ...nd|BBC Scotland]] and later became known for his British television comedy shows ''[[The Stanley Baxter Show]]'', ''[[The Stanley Baxter Picture Show]]'', '
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  • {{Short description|BBC comedy sketch show 1981–1988}} {{Infobox television
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  • {{Short description|1969 British historical comedy series}} {{Use British English|date=May 2014}}
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  • ...7. Three out of six episodes from Series 2 and two of the four Christmas [[sketch comedy|sketches]] (1968 and 1970) are missing as the [[BBC|BBC]] routinely ...g Department handled videotape but had no mandate to retain material. Some shows were kept by [[BBC Enterprises|BBC Enterprises]], but they too had limited
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