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| caption = Captain Blackadder in the Suffolk Regiment ...otable personality traits and characteristics throughout each incarnation. In a 2001 poll [[Conducting|conducted]] by [[Channel 4]], Edmund Blackadder wa

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...was largely responsible for the programme's innovative, surreal structure, in which sketches flowed from one to the next without the use of punch lines. ...degenerative [[aphasia]], he gradually lost the ability to speak and died in 2020 from [[frontotemporal dementia]] at the age of 77.<ref name="Guardian"

...h-produced film-comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in the UK. Many comedians have acknowledged him as a major influence. Hay was ....co.uk/2015/05/25/feature_will_hay_british_comedy_legend/ |title=Will Hay: Britain's bumbling star of the screen and skies. Page 1. |publisher=[[The Register|

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...973, with eight episodes. An hour-long 25th anniversary show was broadcast in 1989, comically introduced as "full frontal radio". ...ain." Basing the show's title on the phrase used to recover from a mistake set the tone for the series as an irreverent and loosely produced comedy show.<

...of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman), a young [[Jews|Jewish]]-[[Roman people|Roman]] man who is born on the same day as—and next door to—[[Jesus]], and is ...promote the film, with posters in Sweden reading, "So funny, it was banned in Norway!"<ref>{{cite news |last=Bhaskar |first=Sanjeev |title=What did 'Life

...in [[w:BBC radio|BBC radio]]'s newly-created [[w:BBC Radio 1|BBC Radio 1]] in 1967. It was here he developed his trademark voices and surreal characters ...aceous figure was often used to comic effect. Rocos would be his assistant in the 1987 BBC gameshow ''Brainstorm''. He was a highly versatile performer,

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...on]] as his [[sidekick]] [[Baldrick]], together with numerous other actors in one-off parts. ...lly dethroned as Duke of Edinburgh and gathers the other six most evil men in all England to form the Black Seal. They plan to kill the rest of the royal

...is childhood, relocating in 1931 to live and work the majority of his life in the United Kingdom. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself “S ...during the [[Second World War]], beginning with ''[[Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall]]'' (1971). He also wrote comical verse, with much of his poet

...er popularity in the 1990s. O'Grady subsequently dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, inclu ...drag mime duo the Playgirls, O'Grady then went solo as a stand-up comedian in the early 1980s. Performing as Savage for eight years at a South London gay

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| caption = Chaplin in the early 1920s ...5 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.