• Peter Ling
  ..., 3 October 2006</ref> As a child he appeared in the [[w:Radio Luxembourg (English)|Radio Luxembourg]] children's show ''The Ovaltinies'', and wrote an articl ...pa''.<ref name="eagletimes">[http://eagle-times.blogspot.com/2008/09/eagle-writers-peter-ling-1926-2006.html Peter Ling (1926–2006)], eagle-times.blogspot.c
  7 KB (940 words) - 14:40, 23 December 2022
• Spider-Plant Man
  |language = English ...traying [[Batman|Batman]], and [[Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] as [[Robin (comics)|Robin]].
  6 KB (975 words) - 23:24, 19 February 2023
• Charles Chilton
  ....blogspot.com/2008/07/eagle-writers-charles-chilton-1917.html |title=Eagle Writers – Charles Chilton (1917 – ) |date=30 July 2008 |work=eagle-times.blogsp ...el.html '''The most influential radio programme ever'?'' – British Library English and Drama Blog – 6 January 2014]</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.f
  13 KB (1,769 words) - 19:29, 1 January 2023
• Johnny Speight
  '''Johnny Speight''' (2 June 1920 – 5 July 1998) was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British [[sitcom|sitcoms]]. He emerged in the mid-1950s. He wrote for radio comics [[Frankie Howerd]], [[Vic Oliver]], [[Arthur Askey]], and [[Cyril Fletcher]
  10 KB (1,418 words) - 12:33, 18 February 2023
• Lance Percival
  ...''' (26 July 1933 – 6 January 2015), known as '''Lance Percival''', was an English actor, comedian and singer, best known for his appearances in [[Satire|sati ...d in his own [[BBC TV]] comedy series ''Lance at Large'' (also 1964), with writers [[Peter Tinniswood]] and [[David Nobbs]]. in 1960 he starred on the [[Comed
  14 KB (2,046 words) - 11:30, 4 January 2023
• Bootsie and Snudge
  | language = English
  8 KB (1,204 words) - 12:11, 14 February 2023
• Jimmy Grafton
  ..."King of the Goons Voices Society".{{sfn|Sikov|2002|p=55}}}} With the four comics spending time at the pub, and with Grafton scriptwriting for an increasing [[Category:British radio writers]]
  12 KB (1,708 words) - 08:45, 6 February 2023
• Bob Monkhouse
  ...minals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003) was an English comedian, writer and actor. He was the host of television game shows includ ...Wizard]]'' and ''Adventure''.<ref name="Guardian obit" /> He established a comics writing and art partnership with Dulwich schoolmate [[Denis Gifford]] and t
  29 KB (4,199 words) - 23:06, 13 February 2023
• Will Hay
  ...nals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRAS}} (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a [[schoolmaster]] sketch that later transf ...due to his film ''[[Hey! Hey! USA]]'' being somewhat unsuccessful that the writers and producers successfully talked him into bringing Moffatt and Marriott ba
  33 KB (5,042 words) - 22:47, 18 March 2023
• British comedy
  ...mbria - Stan Laurel"]. BBC. Retrieved 2 January 2015</ref> The influential English music hall comedian and theatre impresario [[Fred Karno]] developed a form ...r this is that British shows are generally written by one or two dedicated writers - often the people that created the show in the first place - as opposed to
  12 KB (1,929 words) - 07:58, 11 September 2024
• Tony Hancock
  '''Anthony John Hancock''' (12 May 1924 &ndash; 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.<ref>{{cite web|last=Oliver|first=John|url=http://www.sc ...hat he chose to separately develop something previously discussed, and the writers were ultimately commissioned to write a ''Comedy Playhouse'' series for the
  33 KB (5,044 words) - 08:50, 6 February 2023
• George Melly
  '''Alan George Heywood Melly''' (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 19 [[Category:English humanists]]
  22 KB (3,201 words) - 23:42, 19 February 2023
• Jimmy Perry
  ...w/article/111501 available online]. Retrieved 25 August 2020.</ref> was an English script writer and actor. He devised and co-wrote the [[BBC]] [[British sit ...eit and ego. But it was nearly there. It was originally called ''Dirty Old Comics.'' If I could have cut about half an hour off it and re-cast some of it, th
  33 KB (4,913 words) - 15:32, 24 August 2024
• The Goodies
  ..., Garden was studying medicine and Oddie was studying [[English literature|English]]. Their contemporaries included [[Graham Chapman]], [[John Cleese]] and [[ ...odes. The famous "[[Four Yorkshiremen]]" sketch was co-written by the four writers/performers of the series – Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
  40 KB (5,949 words) - 11:58, 24 August 2024
• Boulting brothers
  ...5 November 2001), known collectively as the '''Boulting brothers''', were English filmmakers and [[identical twin]]s who became known for their series of sat ...|date=9 October 1949 |access-date=13 September 2017 |page=2 (Sunday Times Comics) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> It led to a less popular sequel
  27 KB (3,986 words) - 22:27, 24 August 2024
• Joyce Grenfell
  ...E]] (''{{nee}}'' '''Phipps'''; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English [[diseuse|diseuse]], singer, actress and writer. She was known for the song ...er middle-class London childhood. Among her friends was [[Virginia Graham (English writer)|Virginia Graham]], with whom she kept up a lifelong correspondence,
  26 KB (3,874 words) - 00:07, 12 February 2023
• Yellowbeard
  | writers = {{Plainlist| | language = English
  19 KB (2,827 words) - 15:04, 27 January 2023
• The Goon Show series 5
  ...ves]] and written by [[Eric Sykes]]. Towards the end of the fourth series, writers [[Larry Stephens]] and Spike Milligan had gone their separate ways. Stephen ==The writers==
  35 KB (5,515 words) - 07:44, 20 March 2023
• Peter Cook
  ...s at 57|author= Mel Gussow|date= January 10, 1995|page= D20}}</ref> was an English actor, comedian, [[satirist]], playwright and screenwriter. He was the lead ...ll of more than 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and directors in the English-speaking world.<ref>{{cite news |title=Peter Cook the funniest |url=http://
  49 KB (7,334 words) - 16:20, 25 August 2024
• Douglas Adams
  ...uide to the Galaxy (TV series)|a television series]], several stage plays, comics, [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)|a video game]], and a ...s in three years — he graduated in 1974 with a 2:2 in [[English literature|English literature]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/re
  69 KB (10,003 words) - 07:50, 30 March 2023

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)