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  • ...ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Gale |first=S.H. |title=Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese |publisher=Garland |year=1996 |page=767 |i [[Category:English poetry collections]]
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  • | language = English ...767">{{cite book | last=Gale | first=S.H. | title=Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese | publisher=Garland | series=Garland refer
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  • ...ualisation is patently unprofitable".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s |last=Jackaman |first=Rob |year=1989 |pub ...w starts with [[Henry Crun]] and [[Minnie Bannister]] walking about on the English coast. The year is 1941, and the pair converse briefly about elephants, bef
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  • '''Leslie Dawson Jr.''' (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, who is best remembered for his [[w: ...f his love for [[w:canonical|canonical]] figures in [[w:English literature|English literature]], in particular the 19th-century essayist [[w:Charles Lamb (wri
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  • ...stnom|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (23 March 1935 – 25 January 2022) was an English writer, comedian, and actor. As well as performing on stage, radio and tele ...described himself as a university dropout: "I was supposed to be studying English Literature at Leeds, but I was in the bar and chasing girls and my first-ye
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  • {{Short description|English actor and comedian (1940–2020)}} ...Empire|OBE]] (17 July 1940{{snd}}12 April 2020)<ref name=BBCDeath/> was an English actor and comedian best known as a member of [[The Goodies]].
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  • ...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 ...Hay's films has been described as subversive and similar to that of fellow English comedian [[Frank Randle]]. His films are often characterised as exhibiting
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  • ...ouse]] suburb of [[Dublin]] on 6 July 1936, the son of an Irish father and English mother.<ref name="GOC">{{cite AV media|people=Robin Brown (Director)|date=1 ...m and drugs. Later programmes included ''Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric'' (1974) and ''Eccentrics at Play'' (1974), in which he looked at
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  • ...thon and the Holy Grail]].''<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese|author=Steven Gale|url=https://books.googl ...the quest to proceed.<ref>{{cite book|title=Monty Python, Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama|author1=Darl Larsen |author2=William Proctor Williams |ur
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  • * [[List of humorists|humourist]] '''Douglas Noel Adams''' (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humourist, satirist and dramatist. Adams wa
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  • [[Category:Scottish humorists]] [[Category:Scottish people of English descent]]
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  • ...rcraft Is Missing]]'' (1942), in which he was required to deliver lines in English, Latin, and Dutch. In 1944, under the auspices of [[Entertainments National ...rot roles being undertaken by three actors). However, he provided only his English and German voices for [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]]'s ''[[Robin
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