• Vince Powell
  ...[[Love Thy Neighbour (1972 TV series)|Love Thy Neighbour]]'', though other writers contributed scripts to both series. The latter programme, according to ''[[ ...Powell and Driver left after the first series, though the show (written by writers such as Roy Bottomley and Tom Brennand) continued in their absence.
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• Jimmy Edwards
  [[Category:Male actors from London]] [[Category:English male comedians]]
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• Wilfrid Brambell
  ...fused to get on the same plane." They continued to work together after the Australian tour on radio and adverts, with it being generally accepted that the relati ...rymonth.org.uk/history/brambell.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> at a time when male homosexual acts were [[Sexual Offences Act 1967|illegal in England and Wale
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• George Sanders
  ...dead |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=46 |issue=13,109 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=27 April 1972 |access-date=1 September 2 [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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• Tim Brooke-Taylor
  ...Yorkshiremen sketch|Four Yorkshiremen]]" sketch was co-written by the four writers and performers of the series.<ref name="BrightRoss2001">{{Cite book ...a Ha'' interview] – Tim Brooke-Taylor discusses his career in Episode 1 of Australian comedy podcast ''Radio Ha Ha''
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• Chesney and Wolfe
  ...y wrote the show's last four seasons, initially with another of the show's writers, [[Marty Feldman]]. A one-off special for [[BBC Television]] in 1956, entit ...-chesney-1920-2018/ |title=Obituary: Ronald Chesney (1920-2018) |work=WGGB Writers' Union |date=19 April 2018 |accessdate=25 April 2018}}</ref> He did, howeve
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• Take It from Here
  ...y sketch writer with the Kavanagh agency, and had written material for the Australian comedian Dick Bentley. The radio producer [[Charles Maxwell (radio producer ...n addition, the character actor [[Wallas Eaton]] was engaged to play minor male roles, replacing Clarence Wright from the first series.
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• John Bird (actor)
  ...be|cVBV7e0ksXg|Amazin' Man}}</ref> The record stayed for 12 weeks in the [[Australian Singles Chart]], peaking at number 26. In 1975, Bird took the part of Mr Re [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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• Clive Dunn
  ...ited Kingdom)|1st Armoured Brigade]] in the [[6th Division (Australia)|6th Australian Infantry Division]] which fought in the [[Battle of Greece|Greek Campaign]] [[Category:20th-century British male singers]]
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• Barry Humphries
  ...ries''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|AO|CBE}} (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian [[comedian]], [[actor]], [[author]] and [[satirist]]. He is best known for ...a dowdy [[Moonee Ponds, Victoria|Moonee Ponds]] housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Dame Edna Everage has evolved over fou
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• Donald Sinden
  ....gov.au/nla.news-article44803823|title=New deal for star. |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |date=4 April 1956 |access-date=10 July 2012 |page=52 |via ...[Georgette Heyer]].<ref>Jennifer Kloester, "Fine and Dandy", ''The Weekend Australian'', 22–23 May 2004, p. R13</ref>
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• The Two Ronnies
  * [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] (Australia, home video) ...h [[John Cleese]],<ref>"The True Ronnies" – ''[[The Australian|The Weekend Australian Magazine]]'' – 11–12 November 2006</ref> but the pair's big break came
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• Goodness Gracious Me (TV series)
  ...duction he appears in, from an adaptation of a [[Jane Austen]] novel to an Australian [[soap opera]], into a Bollywood [[Musical film|musical]]. ...hemselves to be highly desirable 'Asian babes' and complain about unwanted male attention and shout out rude comments at the men who walk past them, with t
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• Hancock's Half Hour
  ...episode "The East Cheam Drama Festival" from the fifth series, showed that writers Galton and Simpson were in touch with developments in the British theatre, ...unemployable (although he had started out as a fast-talking American-style Australian), and Hancock's 'secretary', Miss Pugh, had such a loose job description th
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• Four Weddings and a Funeral
  ...access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref> A 2017 poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, and critics for ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' magazine r ...ted to the title, believing ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' would turn off male viewers from the film. In its place they suggested such titles as ''True Lo
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• Peter Cook
  ...one in the ''Comedians' Comedian'', a poll of more than 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and directors in the English-speaking world.<ref>{{cite news |ti Cook befriended and supported Australian comedian and actor [[Barry Humphries]], who began his British solo career a
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• Boulting brothers
  ...a.gov.au/nla.news-article51599066 |title=A FACULTY OF FUN |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |volume=25 |issue=39 |location=Australia |date=5 March 195 ...THE ARTS New star for UK films |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=17 January 1967 |access-date=13 Septembe
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• Round the Horne main characters
  The persona adopted by the writers for Horne was not greatly different from his real-life one,{{sfn|Massingber ...end.{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=2, 5, 10 and 13}} As the show developed, the writers gave him more to do. In the second series Smith continually interrupts the
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• Rik Mayall
  ...nb64oi6-1226949174975|access-date=10 June 2014|work=[[w:The Australian|The Australian]]|date=10 June 2014}}</ref> In 1975, Mayall went to the [[w:Victoria Univer ...same [[w:anarchy|anarchic]] vein as ''Comic Strip''. Ben Elton joined the writers. The series was commissioned and first broadcast in 1982, shortly after ''C
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• On the Buses
  .... It spawned three spin-off feature films and a stage version. Despite the writers' previous successes with ''[[The Rag Trade]]'' and ''[[Meet the Wife (TV se ...ss-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> Fox Classics on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Australian Fox]] cable network and New Zealand's Jones channel on Sky regularly show t
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