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  • ...ber 46 in the [[UK Singles Chart]] in February 1981.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book | title= British Hit Singles & Albums
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  • ...pecials|special sketches]] broadcast on BBC One as part of various [[Comic Relief]] telethons.</ref> ...internationally between 2005 and 2007, various specials for the ''[[Comic Relief]]'' charity marathons, and the [[HBO]]-produced ''[[Little Britain USA]]''
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  • Their most famous comic creations are the stone-faced bouncers The Two Rons (not to be confused wit ...eased a [[Single (music)|single]] in aid of [[Comic Relief (charity)|Comic Relief]].<ref name=":0" /> Credited to Hale & Pace and the Stonkers,<ref name="occ
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  • ...a glove puppet, but has also been depicted in animated cartoon shorts and comic strips. The character has featured on children's television from the 1960s ...; sometimes the guest singer would do a song, straight, but then also do a comic duet with Basil.
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  • ...]. Released as a single in November 1986, it reached number 13 in the [[UK Singles Chart]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Dexys Midnight Runners| url=https://www.offi Jacko and Elmo also appeared in the 1989 [[Comic Relief (charity)|Comic Relief]] show on BBC1 as a pair of murderous psychopaths.
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  • ...r on stage). Madge never spoke a public word (although she sang on [[Comic Relief]]), and while she was often the butt of Dame Edna's jokes, the two were dev ...red on ''[[Red Nose Day 2013]]'' as a guest star and judge for the ''Comic Relief Does MasterChef'' competition between [[Jack Whitehall]] and [[Micky Flanag
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  • ...ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thecomicstrip/ |title=The Comic Strip Presents... |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 October 2011}}</ref> The n ...by [[Cliff Richard]] and [[The Shadows]], which had become a [[Lists of UK Singles Chart number ones|No. 1 UK hit single]] in 1962. The group agreed to join t
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  • ...''[[The Young Ones (TV series)|The Young Ones]]'', ''[[The Comic Strip|The Comic Strip Presents...]]'', ''[[Blackadder]]'', ''[[Filthy Rich & Catflap]]'', ' ===''Young Ones'' and ''The Comic Strip''===
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  • ...#2005 event|Comic Relief]] in 2005, and [[Sport Relief 2012#Sketches|Sport Relief]] in 2012. A film version of the show, ''[[Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie]] ...nd [[Adrian Edmondson]] in 1984 for the TV series, ''[[The Comic Strip|The Comic Strip Presents...]]''. The name "Edina Monsoon" is derived from Edmondson's
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  • ...pening ceremony]], television commercials and several sketches for [[Comic Relief]]. The programme carries strong appeal in hundreds of territories worldwide In the Comic Relief sketch "Torvill & Bean", Bean is accompanied by a female companion portraye
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  • ...''Bedazzled'' is credited to Cook and Moore and its screenplay to Cook. A comic parody of [[Faust]], it stars Cook as George Spigott (the [[Devil]]) who te ...s as [[A-side and B-side|B-sides]] to the [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] 12-inch singles "Number One Song in Heaven" and "Tryouts for the Human Race". The main song
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  • ...r the annual American benefit for the homeless, ''[[Comic Relief USA|Comic Relief]]'', in 1987, and again in 1989 for a British audience at the [[Amnesty Int ...ain subject. Set in a chat-show studio in the 1980s, it focuses on Moore's comic and personal relationship with Cook and the directions their careers took a
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  • ...ist arsonist. Over the course of 13 episodes the "Magnificent Seven" enjoy comic, dramatic, and romantic adventures, until a change in German tax laws force ==Comic Relief sketch==
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  • | misc = {{Singles ...bs of Mr. Bean making campaign promises and was previously used in [[Comic Relief]] in 1992.
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  • ...4]], it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)|1981 TV series] === Comic books ===
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  • ...ector Newell and the surviving cast for a 25th anniversary reunion [[Comic Relief]] short entitled ''One Red Nose Day and a Wedding'', which aired in the UK ...ound]]" performed by [[Wet Wet Wet]] that remained at number 1 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth (now twelfth) biggest sell
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  • The four clicked immediately. "It was always a relief to get away from the theatre and join in the revels at Grafton's on a Sunda ...ter from the ''[[Popeye#Thimble Theatre and Popeye comic strips|Popeye]]'' comic.<ref name=Ayto2006>{{citation |year=2006 |author=Ayto, John |place=Oxford,
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  • ...that the story was "confused" and considered that "there is not sufficient comic invention in the telling" of it.<ref name="Times: SA George" /> Murphy writ ...of 6th Airborne Division, who had been holding a series of bridges without relief for 56 days. He did so on 17 August in a one-day visit to the front line br
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