• Alan Clare
  {{short description|British jazz pianist}} ...|last=Chilton |first=John |author-link=w:John Chilton |title= Who's Who of British Jazz |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhobritishja00chil |url-access=li
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• Charlie Chester
  '''Charlie Chester''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (26 April 1914&nbsp;– 26 June 1997) was an English [[comedia ...nickname "Cheeky" is incorrect</ref> Charlie Chester, he was well known to British audiences in the 1940s from his [[BBC]] radio show ''Stand Easy''. This sho
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• Clive Dunn
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• Lizbeth Webb
  After performing as a dance band vocalist and entertaining British troops during World War II, Webb pursued a career in West End musicals, bec ...Betty Webb, singing to the troops during World War II and freelancing with British bands, often for [[Jack Payne (bandleader)|Jack Payne]], who discovered her
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• Douglas Byng
  ...eatre]], [[w:revue|revue]] and [[w:cabaret|cabaret]]. Billed as "Bawdy but British", Byng was famous for his female impersonations. His songs are full of sexu ...ry academy when he pointed out some of his sex partners who were prominent military personnel. He continued his theatre work throughout the war, playing charac
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• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
  ...ch of it illustrations by Milligan or photographs. He begins his months in military training at [[Bexhill-on-Sea]]. It starts with Milligan joining his regimen ...asked to give their first gig in Bexhill Old Town Church Hall. (Milligan's military career shifts between his duties as a gunner and musical performances.) Mil
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• Jack Hulbert
  {{Short description|British actor, director, screenwriter and singer(1892–1978)}} '''John Norman Hulbert''' (24 April 1892{{spaced ndash}}25 March 1978) was a British actor, director, screenwriter and singer, specializing primarily in comedy
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• Bud Flanagan
  ...s appointed an [[w:Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1959. ...'s last recording was [[Jimmy Perry]] and Derek Taverner's theme for the [[British sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dadsarmy.co.uk/
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• Max Geldray
  ...inses Irene Brigade]], but was injured by a bomb blast and spent time in a military hospital.<ref name="Times Obit" /> Although he did not incur long-term inju Settling in London, Geldray took up British citizenship,<ref name="Stage obit" /> and worked on a number of BBC radio p
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• George Melly
  ...ts tropical Palm House and there chatted to wounded soldiers from a nearby military hospital. It was the incongruity of this sight, men smoking among the exoti ...ans Revival" style jazz were very popular in Britain. In January 1963, the British music magazine ''[[NME]]'' reported that the biggest trad jazz event to be
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• Max Bygraves
  ...om Brown's Schooldays]]'' (1951). Bygraves appeared as himself in the 1954 British film musical ''Harmony Lane'' directed by Lewis Gilbert, and 'What Now, Dav ...Jackie Gleason]], in America. He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1961 when he was surprised by [[Eamonn
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• Norman Wisdom
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• Benny Hill
  ...Variety Series#1980s|Outstanding Variety]]. In 2006, Hill was voted by the British public number 17 in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s poll of [[TV's 50 Greatest S ...[[UK Singles Chart]] and earned Hill an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1972.
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• Bernard Cribbins
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• Blackadder
  '''''Blackadder''''' is a series of four [[Period piece|period]] [[British sitcom]]s, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired on [[BB ...o find [[Britain's Best Sitcom]], ''Blackadder'' was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''. It was also ra
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• The Goon Show
  '''''The Goon Show''''' is a British [[radio comedy]] programme, originally produced and broadcast by the [[BBC ...ow business, commerce, industry, art, politics, diplomacy, the police, the military, education, class structure, literature and film.
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• List of The Goon Show episodes
  {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} ...on Show'' episodes'''. ''[[The Goon Show]]'' was a popular and influential British [[w:radio|radio]] [[w:comedy|comedy]] series, originally produced by the [[
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• George Formby
  ...36}}}} The film followed a revue format, and Jo Botting, writing for the [[British Film Institute]], describes it as having a "wafer-thin plot" that is "almos ...–74}} The popularity of his performances meant that in 1937 he was the top British male star in box office takings, a position he held every subsequent year u
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• The Goon Show series 1
  ...at Work!]]'' and who had then started to produce shows such as ''[[Taxi! (British TV series)|Taxi!]]'', ''[[Hi Gang! (radio series)|Hi Gang!]]'', ''[[Can You ...mers whose strange new ‘goon’ humour would soon herald a new generation in British comedy.
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• The Goon Show series 7
  | [[Ray Ellington|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] || Four musicians ...Service]] asked for a special edition of ''The Goon Show'' to be heard by British forces in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Areas as well as by the [[C
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