{{Short description|Welsh entertainer and actress}} ...sa Mary "Tessie" O'Shea''' (13 March 1913 – 21 April 1995) was a [[w:Wales|Welsh]] [[w:entertainer|entertainer]] and actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://expl

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...02-22}}</ref> [[prop comedian]] and [[Magic (illusion)|magician]] of Anglo-Welsh parentage. As an entertainer, his appearance was large and lumbering at {{c ...e family were lodging. His parents were Thomas H. Cooper, a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] recruiting sergeant in the [[British Army]] and later coal miner, and Cat

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...f Midlothian FC]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Comedian Ronnie Corbett launches Welsh Premier League |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/19258982 |work=BBC ...ronnies-star-a6961496.html |title=Ronnie Corbett dead: Ricky Gervais leads comedians paying tribute to The Two Ronnies star |work=[[The Independent]] |location=

Williams stated in his diaries that he believed he was of [[Welsh people|Welsh]] extraction because of his parents' surnames (Williams was later proven co [[Category:20th-century British comedians]]

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...don, the only child of publisher John Atherton Rushton (1908-1958) and his Welsh wife Veronica (née James, 1910-1977). He was educated at [[Shrewsbury Scho [[Category:20th-century British Army personnel]]

Barker's next sitcom, ''[[The Magnificent Evans]]'', which was about a Welsh photographer and aired in 1984, was not successful.<ref name=timesobit/> H ...tp://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2004/12/01/26/the_comedians_comedian|title=The comedians' comedian|date=1 December 2004|work=Chortle|access-date=16 February 2011}}<

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...is films, and his performances had a strong influence on a number of later comedians. Sellers was nominated three times for an [[w:Academy Award|Academy Award]] ...one performance of a comedy routine in [[Peterborough]]; the headline act, Welsh vocalist [[Dorothy Squires]], however, persuaded the management to reinstat

...}} The writer and producer John Fisher, in his examination of 20th century comedians and comedy, highlights ''ITMA''{{'}}s "speed of delivery, its quick-fire su ...sh regions there were the Scottish Tattie Mackintosh (and her mother); the Welsh Sam Fairfechan ("Hello, how are you? As if I cared") and his family;{{sfn|F