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  • ...er, ''The Idiot Weekly''. The headlines of the paper were used as links to comedy sketches.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://televisionheaven.co.uk/reviews/the-idi ...//www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/i/idiotweeklyprice_7773800.shtml BBC Comedy Guide - The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d]
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  • | format = [[w:Comedy|Comedy]] '''''Danger - Men at Work!''''' was a British radio comedy programme, broadcast by the [[w:BBC Radio|BBC]] over seven series between 1
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  • ...'The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film''''' is a 1959 British [[sketch comedy]] [[short film]] directed by [[Richard Lester]] and [[Peter Sellers]], in c ...threaded through subsequent scenes, transcending the stand-alone [[Sketch comedy|sketch form]] - a tactic subsequently favoured by the Python team."<ref>{{c
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  • It was the third and final in a series of [[sketch comedy]] shows attempting to translate the humour of ''[[The Goon Show]]'' to tele ==Impact on comedy and culture==
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  • ...rincipal contributors it shared with ''[[The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d]]'', a comedy show which had finished only a month before. ...ntics of ''The Goon Show'' into visual antics in bizarre and often surreal comedy sketches. [[Jazz]] [[harmonica]] player [[Max Geldray]] had a music segment
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  • | format = Comedy radio ...rogramme Follows Almost Immediately''''' (TNPFAI) was a cult [[w:BBC|BBC]] comedy of the 1970s.
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  • ...e]], two foul-mouthed lavatory attendants who banter at length about their surreal day-to-day existences. The footage was shot in early September 1978. The fi [[Category:1979 comedy films]]
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  • |genre = [[Comedy]] ...Colour - BBC2 Sketch Show|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref><ref name=genome1/> It was written by and featured [[Spike Mil
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  • ...id Green''' and '''Dick Hills''', were a British partnership of television comedy writers, at their highest profile during the 1960s. ...d [[Frankie Howerd]], but their best-remembered collaboration was with the comedy double act [[Eric Morecambe]] and [[Ernie Wise]] on the [[Associated TeleVi
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  • | starring = {{ubl|[[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]|[[Moore Mariott]]|[[Carl Jaffe]]}} ...ected by [[Walter Forde]] and [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]] as well as [[Moore Marriott]].<ref>{{cite web|url=h
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  • "'''Snooze'''" is an episode of the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. Written by Life takes on a [[Wiktionary:surreal|surreal]] effect as the whole of Britain reacts to the effects of the spillage by t
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  • |genre = [[Comedy]] '''''Q...''''' is a [[Surreal humour|surreal]] television comedy sketch show written by [[Spike Milligan]] and [[Neil Shand]], and starring
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  • | genre = [[Comedy]] '''''The World of Beachcomber''''' was a surreal television comedy show produced by the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] inspired by t
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  • ...iss London Ltd.''''' is a 1943 British, [[black-and-white]], [[comedy film|comedy]], [[musical film|musical]], [[war film]], [[film director|directed]] by [[ This musical comedy playing in [[war]]time London, stars [[Arthur Askey]] as Arthur Boden alias
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  • | genre = [[Situation comedy|Sitcom]] '''''Me Mammy''''' is a British [[Situation comedy|sitcom]] that aired on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1968 to 1971. Starring [[Milo
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  • '''''Watch it, Sailor!''''' is a 1961 black and white British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Wolf Rilla]] and starring [[Dennis Price]], [[Liz Fras ...de's eccentric (okay, she's just plain dotty) aunt, whose ramblings have a surreal quality; and Dennis Price as the droll-witted officer who is forced by orde
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  • |[[Surreal humour|Surreal]] ...r the [[Perrier Comedy Award]]. He was a team captain on the [[Channel 4]] comedy panel show ''[[8 Out of 10 Cats]]'' from 2005 to 2015, and on ''[[8 Out of
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  • ...]] as [[Doctor Watson|Dr. Watson]]. A number of other well-known [[British comedy]] actors appeared in the film including [[Terry-Thomas]], [[Kenneth William ...at Merripit Hall, Watson meets the eccentric Mrs. Stapleton, who displays surreal symptoms suggesting demonic possession. Late at night, Sir Henry and Watson
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  • Throughout film, television, and radio, '''British comedy''' has become known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots, and se ...rious episodes of Punch and Judy are performed in the spirit of outrageous comedy — often provoking shocked laughter — and are dominated by the anarchic
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  • ...er |title=From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980 |publisher=Eyre Methuen |date=1980 |page=185}}</ref> including ...amme itself comprised a series of satirical sketches, often presented in a surreal, absurd and discontinuous style – anticipating ''[[Monty Python's Flying
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