| notable_work = ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV series)|The Comedians]]'', ''[[The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club]]''}} ...he [[Granada Television]] programme ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV series)|The Comedians]]'' in the early 1970s.

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| birth_place = [[Wallasey]], [[Cheshire]], England ...d joined the [[Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]] but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined [[Entertainments National Service Association]

...of [[British Railways]]''. Born Honour Fuller, her stage name was derived from her favourite measurement of alcohol, a gill, and her favourite time of yea ...ial". Amongst Summers' possessions were "a whole file of complaint letters from [[working men's club]]s." The complaints were generally that she was too r

...Master's Voice]] include "The Bee Song" (1938), a lasting part of his act. From the 1950s, Askey was a prominent television presence and made regular appea ...(née Bowden, d. 1949), originally from [[Knutsford|Knutsford]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]] and Samuel Askey (d. 1958), company secretary of Sugar Products of Liverp

...ing "wasp-waist and swivel-hippy". Unwin claimed that the inspiration came from his mother, who once told him that on the way home she had "falolloped (fal ...n's Home|National Children's Home]] in [[Congleton|Congleton]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]]. In the late 1920s, he studied radio, television and languages at [[Unive

| birth_place = [[Bramhall|Bramhall]], [[Stockport|Stockport]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]], England ...accommodate them and the last half desperately trying to save the building from a flood, and whilst all this is going on, put up with his nagging wife ([[H

| birth_place = [[Wallasey]], [[Cheshire]], England ...ctober 2013</ref> (part of [[Wallasey]]) in [[Wirral Peninsula|Wirral]], [[Cheshire]], England. He attended Wallasey Grammar School and made his professional s

...apped'', Starr gives speech problems as the reason he spent two years away from home as a child.<ref>{{cite web |title=Freddie Starr reveals misery of chil Starr was encouraged by his mother to perform from the age of 12 working in clubs and pubs. For five years, he was a member of

...hildhood as "a happy time, marred by no ructions or family tensions, apart from the occasional wet sock."<ref>{{harvnb|McCabe|2005|p=14}}</ref> As a child, ...toles-Diams in ''[[Irma La Douce (musical)|Irma La Douce]]'' for two years from 1958,<ref name=C2/> Lord Slingsby-Craddock in ''Mr. Whatnot'' in 1964 and B

...Tranmere, Merseyside|Tranmere]], Cheshire,<!-- Please do not change—it was Cheshire when O'Grady was born and remained so until 1974 when it became Merseyside. Born to a working-class Irish migrant family in [[Tranmere, Cheshire]], O'Grady moved to London in the late 1970s, initially working as a peripa

...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...s first properly home-grown screen comedian. He was an influence on future comedians—particularly [[Charlie Drake]] and [[Norman Wisdom]]—and, culturally, o