• Douglas Smith (broadcaster)
  | birth_place = [[w:Croydon|Croydon]], [[w:Surrey|Surrey]] [[Category:British male comedians]]
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• Florence Desmond
  ...School]] in [[Islington]]. Her brother, Fred Desmond, was a comedy acrobat from the "Desmond and Marks" double act. ...|first=Roy |year=1976 |title=British Music Hall: An Illustrated Who's Who from 1850 to the Present Day |location=London |publisher=Paul Elek |page= 44-45|
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• Terry Scott
  | death_place = [[Witley|Witley]], [[Surrey|Surrey]], England ...de several ''Carry On'' appearances, they never appeared in the same film. From 1981 to 1992, Scott was the [[voice actor|voice]] of [[Penfold (character)|
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• Hylda Baker
  ...], [[w:Surrey|Surrey]], England<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: MAY 1986 17 74 SURREY MID-EASTERN - Hylda Baker, DoB = 4 February 1905 aged 81</ref> ...g, producing and performing her own shows. Her stage act included a gossip from the [[w:Northern England|North of England]], with a silent, sullen companio
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• Ted Rogers (comedian)
  ...est known for hosting the [[Yorkshire Television]] game show ''[[3-2-1]]'' from 1978 to 1988. ...[[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]], [[Cliff Richard]] and [[Alma Cogan]] and comedians [[Terry Scott]] and [[Hugh Lloyd]]. He went on to host ''[[Sunday Night at
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• George Martin (comedian)
  ...s an original approach at the time, and he became one of the first topical comedians. ...ry On'' films]]) but the format was not right for George and he swore that from then on, he would always write his own material. He quickly became a househ
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• Jimmy Edwards
  | birth_place = [[Barnes, London|Barnes]], [[Surrey|Surrey]], England ...er and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in ''[[Whack-O!]]''.
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• Frank Muir
  |death_place = [[Thorpe, Surrey]], England ...for most of their careers. Together they wrote [[BBC Radio]]'s ''[[Take It from Here]]'' for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes ''[[My W
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• Roger Wilmut
  | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...include ''[[The Goon Show]] Companion'', ''[[Tony Hancock]]: Artiste'', ''From Fringe to Flying Circus'' (a history of [[Oxbridge]] comedy in the sixties
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• Sean Lock
  | birth_place = [[Chertsey]], [[Surrey]], England ...Cats]]'' from 2005 to 2015, and on ''[[8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]]'' from 2012 until his death in 2021.
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• Arthur English
  | death_place = [[w:Frimley Park Hospital|Frimley Park Hospital]], Surrey, England ...6 April 1995) was an English television, film and stage actor and comedian from the [[w:music hall|music hall]] tradition.
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• Ernie Wise
  ..."Youth takes a Bow".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Surrey Advertiser |journal=Surrey Advertiser |date=10 August 1940 |page=6}}</ref> Gradually, Wise and Morecam ...d Wise's persona by making him pompous and naive. Wise's character changed from being a conventional straight man into a pretentious and self-satisfied buf
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• Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)
  ...[w:Milford Hospital|Milford Sanatorium]] near [[w:Godalming|Godalming]] in Surrey, where he spent 13 months.<ref name=independent>[https://www.independent.co ...ntly applied and got jobs at the [[BBC]], writing sketches for its various comedians.<ref name=independent/> One of the plotlines in [[Linda Grant]]'s 2016 nove
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• Richard Murdoch
  | death_place = [[Walton-on-Thames]], [[Surrey]], England ...]'', a panel game that combined humour and erudition, in which he appeared from 1964 to 1973.
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• Carry On Sergeant
  ...On (film series)|series of ''Carry On'' films]], with 31 entries released from 1958 to 1992. The film was based on a play ''The Bull Boys'' by [[R. F. Del ...ma-bookers on 1 August 1958 after which some regional screenings were held from 31 August including Aberdeen and Birmingham.
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• Bud Flanagan
  ...ogrom]]. Wolf and Yetta Weintrop intended to escape to the "[[New World]]" from Eastern Europe – they paid for a ticket to [[New York City|New York]], bu ...ere booked by [[Val Parnell]] at the [[Holborn Empire]]. As [[music hall]] comedians they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act and thi
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• Renée Houston
  | death_place = [[Chertsey]], [[Surrey]], [[England]] [[Category:Scottish women comedians]]
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• Beryl Vertue
  | birth_place = [[w:Croydon]], <!-- then in -->[[Surrey]], England Vertue was born in [[Croydon]], <!-- Then in. -->Surrey on 8 April 1931.<ref name="Guardian obit"/> She attended Mitcham county sch
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• Dick Emery
  ...eer began on radio in the 1950s, and his self-titled television series ran from 1963 to 1981.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandr ...o women, but in late 1958 he left Iris and moved to [[Thames Ditton]] in [[Surrey]] to set up home.
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• All You Need Is Cash
  * [[Henry Woolf]] as Arthur Sultan, the Surrey Mystic, a parody of the [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]] ...s to the stream of people coming out of the building carrying items stolen from the office; this is a reference to the Beatles' famously plundered [[Apple
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