• Patton Brothers
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• Syd Little
  ...e Large. In January 2019 Syd and Eddie appeared as headline guests for the Slapstick comedy festival speaking about their lives and career to a sold out audienc [[Category:Comedians from Lancashire]]
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• Tommy Cannon
  ...Boys in Blue]]'' together in 1982 and guest starred in the [[Eric Sykes]] slapstick film ''Mr H is Late'' in 1988. Other notable guest appearances were on ''[[ [[Category:English male comedians]]
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• Billy Bennett (comedian)
  ...ett, and his performing partner, Robert Martell, formed a [[music hall]] [[slapstick]] comedy duo. Billy Bennett trained as an acrobat but was initially reluct Bennett was an important influence on comedians [[George Formby, Jr.|George Formby]], [[Tommy Cooper]], [[Ron Moody]], [[Er
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• Fred Karno
  ...presario]] of the British [[music hall]].<ref name=up/> As a comedian of [[slapstick]] he is credited with popularising the [[Pieing|custard-pie-in-the-face gag ...h]] stated: "Fred Karno is not only a genius, he is the man who originated slapstick comedy. We in Hollywood owe much to him."<ref>J. P. Gallagher (1971). "Fred
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• Charlie Drake
  ...tature (5' 1"/155&nbsp;cm tall), curly red hair and liking for [[slapstick|slapstick]], he was a popular comedian with children in his early years, becoming nat ...such a way that it would fall apart when he was pulled through it during a slapstick sketch.
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• British comedy
  ...haracters, plots, and settings, and has produced some of the most renowned comedians and characters in the world. ...without dialogue in the 1890s, and Chaplin and Laurel were among the young comedians who worked for him as part of "Fred Karno's Army".<ref name="Karno">McCabe,
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• The Plank (1967 film)
  '''''The Plank''''' is a 1967 British [[slapstick]] [[comedy]] [[film]] (51 minutes) made by Associated London Films. It foll The cast features many of the top comedians and comic actors of the time.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062133/ "T
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• Bob Todd
  ...is lugubrious expression and talent for slapstick, and was known to fellow comedians by the nickname 'Silly Todd'. [[Category:English male comedians]]
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• My Wife's Family (1956 film)
  ...931 and 1941), this new production, in colour, serves as a vehicle for two comedians with agreeably contrasting personalities. Ronald Shiner as Doc Knott gives
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• The Goose Steps Out
  ...d Will Hay and so is the attempted theft from the gas bomb laboratory: the slapstick in the plane I found more monotonous and less convivial.<ref>Will Hay by Gr ...e by Simon Heffer, part of the BBC Radio 3 series, The Essay: British Film Comedians.
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• Marty Feldman
  | 1982 || ''[[w:Slapstick of Another Kind|Slapstick of Another Kind]]'' || Sylvester || [[Category:20th-century English comedians]]
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• Bobby Ball
  ...Boys in Blue]]'' together in 1982 and guest starred in the [[Eric Sykes]] slapstick film, ''[[Mr H Is Late]]'', in 1988.<ref name="bbc"/><ref>{{cite web |title [[Category:English male comedians]]
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• Ken Dodd
  ...tps://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/ken-dodd-12-funny-moments-defined-rib-tickling-career/ |archive-date=12 Jan ...-liner joke]]s. He said that his comic influences included other Liverpool comedians like [[Arthur Askey]], [[Robb Wilton]], [[Tommy Handley]] and the "cheeky c
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• Chuckle Brothers
  | genre = [[Slapstick]] and [[parody]] ...ckle Brothers''. The comedy of the Chuckle Brothers usually derived from [[slapstick]], other [[visual gag]]s, and [[wordplay]], and their [[catchphrases]] incl
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• Benny Hill
  * [[slapstick]] ...ed for his television programme ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'', an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and [[double entendre]] in a format that included live comedy an
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• Will Hay
  ...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 also a keen amateur ast ...He is widely regarded as one of the most prolific and influential British comedians of all-time.<ref name="bbc1976"/>
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• Eric Sykes
  ...series that Sykes introduced one of his best known creations, the wordless slapstick routine ''The Plank'', which originally appeared in Episode 2, Series 7 of ...ichols]] and ''[[It's Your Move (1982 film)|It's Your Move]]'', a wordless slapstick comedy depicting the travails of a couple ([[Richard Briers]] and [[Sylvia
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• Freddie Starr
  ..." /> His wit, wrote [[Mark Lawson]], "relied on broad punchlines and silly slapstick".<ref name="Lawson">{{cite news|last=Lawson|first=Mark|url=https://www.theg [[Category:Comedians from Liverpool]]
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• The Goodies
  '''The Goodies''' were a trio of British comedians: [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]] (1940–2020), [[Graeme Garden|Graeme Garden]] (b. 1 ...Comedy Award - Slapstick {{!}} Bristol's Silent Comedy Festival.|newspaper=Slapstick {{!}} Bristol's Silent Comedy Festival.|access-date=2017-02-21|language=en-
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