• The News Huddlines
  {{Infobox Radio Show | home_station = [[BBC Radio 2|BBC Radio 2]]
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• Week Ending
  {{Short description|Satirical British comedy radio programme}} {{Infobox radio show
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• David Hatch
  ...of [[BBC Radio 2]] and [[BBC Radio 4]] and later managing director of BBC Radio.<ref name="Stevens"/> ...o-devised the satirical show ''[[Week Ending]]'' and produced other comedy radio shows such as ''[[Just a Minute]]'', ''[[Hello, Cheeky!]]'', ''[[The Burkis
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• Ronald Baddiley
  | nationality = British ...was best known for his roles in the early days of the long-running British radio drama ''[[The Archers|The Archers]]'', and as Under-Secretary, Sir Gregory
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• British comedy
  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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• Denis Norden
  ...cupation = {{ublist|Radio & television writer|Television presenter|Radio personality}} ...for [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] films. He presented television programmes on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] for many years, including the nostalgia quiz ''
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• Little Britain (sketch show)
  {{Short description|British character-based sketch comedy}} {{Use British English|date=January 2012}}
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• The Goon Show Compendiums
  *[[The Great British Revolution]] Extras: Two booklets with essays, details for each episode and original Radio Times listings.
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• Not the Nine O'Clock News
  ...C Nine O'Clock News|Nine O'Clock News]]'' on [[BBC One|BBC1]], it features satirical sketches on then-current news stories and popular culture, as well as parod Initially, Lloyd and Hardie were considering doing a lampoon of actuality programmes ''à la'' ''[[The Frost Report]]'' with [[Rowan Atkinson]] portraying an ol
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• Lance Percival
  {{Short description|British actor and comedian (1933–2015)}} ...ish actor, comedian and singer, best known for his appearances in [[Satire|satirical comedy]] television shows of the early 1960s and his ability to improvise c
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• Brass Eye
  '''''Brass Eye''''' (stylised as '''brassEYE''') is a British [[Satire|satirical]] television series parodying [[Current affairs (news format)|current affai ...s)|Brass Tacks]]'' and ''Public Eye''), while the term "brass eye" is also British slang for the anus.
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• Malcolm McFee
  ...ase Sir! (film)|Please Sir!]]''. McFee had made his film debut in the 1969 satirical anti-war musical ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https: ...p.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?tag=roger-sloman | title=Programmes for Schools and Colleges, Module 3 | publisher=TV cream | accessdate=5 Apri
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• Have I Got News for You
  {{short description|British television panel show}} ...teams. This style of presentation had a profound impact on panel shows in British TV comedy, making it one of the genre's key standard-bearers.
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• That Was the Week That Was
  ...he Week That Was''''', informally '''''TWTWTW''''' or '''''TW3''''', was a satirical television comedy programme on [[BBC Television]] in 1962 and 1963. It was [[File:RT1963.jpg|thumb|1963 ''[[Radio Times]]'' cover promotes the return of the programme for a second series.]]
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• The Day Today
  ...''The Day Today''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jan/17/the-day-today-chris-morris-alan-partridge-changed-satire-foreve ...r episodes. The series won many awards including Morris winning the 1994 [[British Comedy Award]] for Best Newcomer. All six episodes are available on [[BBC S
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• Tim Brooke-Taylor
  '''Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (17 July 1940{{snd}}12 April 2020)<ref name=BBCDeath/> was an ...so appeared as an actor in various [[sitcom]]s, and was a panellist on BBC Radio's ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' for almost 50 years.
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• At Last the 1948 Show
  ...ediscovered|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|date=16 September 2015|website=British Comedy Guide|access-date=30 July 2020}}</ref> ...]'s company, [[Paradine Productions]] (although it was not credited on the programmes), in association with [[Associated-Rediffusion|Rediffusion London]]. Transm
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• Willie Rushton
  ...ish cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]''. ...view/article/63998, accessed 23 Aug 2015]</ref> He also contributed to the satirical magazine ''The Wallopian'', (a play on the school magazine name ''The Salop
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• Rutland Weekend Television
  {{Short description|British sketch show by Eric Idle (1975–76)}} Idle, in a 1975 ''[[Radio Times]]'' interview, remarked, "It was made on a shoestring budget, and som
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• Peter Cook
  ...[satirist]], playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British [[satire boom]] of the 1960s, and he was associated with the [[anti-establi ...rt from a few cameo appearances but continued to be a regular performer in British television and film.
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