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  • '''''[[Blackadder]]''''' is a British television show starring Rowan Atkinson. ==People==
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  • [[Category:Fictional British people]] [[Category:British sitcom characters]]
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  • '''The Colonel''' is a recurring [[fictional character]] from the British television show ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', played by [[Graham Ch ...ins a rigidly mirthless personality and is always dressed in olive green [[British Army]] uniform. He occasionally makes appearances in the show, usually [[br
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  • {{Short description|British radio actor and announcer}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}}
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  • ...or in two-handed sketches in which he bores the other person. According to British comedy scholar [[Roger Wilmut]], "The striking thing about E. L. Wisty was ..., [[newt]]s, peace through [[nudism]], inalienable rights and his (equally fictional) friend Spotty Muldoon. His foils were such comic actors as [[John Cleese]]
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  • | nationality = [[Irish people|Irish]] ...[Arthur Lucan]] and from 1954 to the 1980s by [[Roy Rolland]] as part of a British [[music hall]] act.<ref name="Obit">{{cite news|last=Gifford|first=Denis|ti
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  • | nationality = British ...]] and [[maid|hotel maid]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.fawltysite.net/people/polly_sherman.htm |title = Connie Booth – Polly Sherman in Fawlty Towers}
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  • | nationality = British ...is a comedy character from ''[[The Goon Show]]'', a 1950s [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] [[radio show]]. The character was created and performed by [[P
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  • * David Pringle. ''Imaginary People: A Who's who of Fictional Characters from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day''. Scolar Press, [[Category:1967 British television series debuts]]
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  • [[Category:Fictional truck drivers]] [[Category:Fictional people from Liverpool]]
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  • ...rdback)]</ref> with the paperback edition in 1988.<ref>[[w:British Library|British Library]]: [http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/U4IKP79Y8BIUJ9LM2KSVF95PHAN2FBA16HEABQ ...urn to Ireland. There are a number of subplots featuring various eccentric people he has dealings with, the main one concerning two [[w:illegal immigrants|il
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  • The sketch was written as "Good Old Days" and performed for the 1967 British television comedy series ''At Last the 1948 Show'' by the show's four write ...s. It ends with the same payoff line "...and if you tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you..."
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  • '''Mr Eric Praline''' is a fictional character from the television show ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', pl ...plastered down hair and plastic raincoat".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Best British Stand-Up and Comedy Routines |editor-last=O'Brien |editor-first=Mike |year=
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  • '''Victor Meldrew''' is a [[fictional character]] in the [[BBC One]] [[sitcom]] ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]'', cr ...is ironic, since he almost always ends up as the loser.<ref>"The original British loser that we recognise in Victor Meldrew and Alan Partridge." ''[http://ww
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  • ...2006}}</ref>) is a [[fiction]]al [[Character (arts)|character]] from the [[British sitcom]] ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''. She is portrayed by [[Gwyneth Stron [[Category:Fictional English people]]
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  • | occupation = Electrician (by trade), corporal in the British Army, car washer, hospital porter, fork lift driver, taxi driver and mobile | nationality = British
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  • '''Private James Frazer''' is a fictional [[British Home Guard|Home Guard]] platoon member and undertaker, first portrayed by [ ...n 1872 and is a dour, trouble-stirring, exaggerating, wild-eyed [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[undertaker]]<ref name=webber75>Webber, Perry, Croft, p. 75</re
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  • ...ularised a miniature race of people who inhabited it. Diddy is an informal British word for "little".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/def ...cky Nugget, Ben "Tiny Ween" Winston, Sid Short and Smarty Arty. Diminutive British [[disc jockey]] [[David Hamilton (broadcasting)|David Hamilton]], who appea
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  • [[Category:Fictional English people]] [[Category:British male characters in television]]
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  • ...ITV Sitcom - British Comedy Guide|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref> It aired for four series between 1958 and 1960. An add .... Pennington-Richards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ad1c48c|title=Inn for Trouble (1960)|publisher=}}</ref>
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