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- {{Infobox radio show | format = [[w:Comedy|Comedy]]3 KB (394 words) - 11:56, 24 January 2023
- {{About|the British television series|the Australian radio series|The Idiot Weekly}} ...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-idi3 KB (377 words) - 19:03, 27 September 2024
- {{Infobox radio show | format = Comedy radio3 KB (472 words) - 16:57, 4 January 2023
- ...id Green''' and '''Dick Hills''', were a British partnership of television comedy writers, at their highest profile during the 1960s. ...st Hills was still employed there, and then became writers for Dave King's radio show and then of [[Dave King (actor)|Dave King]]'s TV show. In the early da4 KB (650 words) - 14:00, 25 February 2023
- ...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 segment6 KB (843 words) - 14:49, 21 February 2023
- | genre = [[Situation comedy|Sitcom]] '''''Me Mammy''''' is a British [[Situation comedy|sitcom]] that aired on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1968 to 1971. Starring [[Milo5 KB (693 words) - 11:36, 24 February 2023
- 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 anarchic12 KB (1,929 words) - 07:58, 11 September 2024
- {{Infobox Radio Show | format = [[Sketch comedy|Sketch comedy]]15 KB (2,221 words) - 23:59, 8 February 2023
- ...uin Books Ltd., London, 2003</ref> from 1970 until 1980. One seven-episode series was made for [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] company [[London Weekend Television|L == Series overview ==20 KB (2,170 words) - 08:52, 6 February 2023
- .../news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/468894.stm|title=Deryck Guyler: British comedy stalwart|work=BBC News|date=8 October 1999|access-date=5 May 2021}}</ref> ...er 1947. Guyler remained with the show until Handley died in 1949 when the series ended.12 KB (1,737 words) - 08:10, 5 August 2024
- * radio |[[Surreal humour|Surreal]]44 KB (5,947 words) - 13:45, 19 March 2023
- | occupation = Music hall, stage, film, radio and television comedian and comedy actor ...cite web |url=http://www.swalwelluk.co.uk/picpages/pic-radioij.html |title=Radio and TV Personalities I and J |work=swalwell.co.uk |accessdate=24 January 2015 KB (2,143 words) - 22:04, 27 September 2022
- ...20 July 1989), professionally known as '''Harry Worth''', was an English comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist. Worth portrayed a charming, gentle and g ...hows a day as comedian between fan dancers. In 1948 he also made his first radio appearance in a show ''New to You''. He now had two dummies for his ventril13 KB (2,108 words) - 13:49, 18 March 2023
- | occupation = {{hlist|Actor (radio, stage, television and film)|comedian|vaudevillian}} ...eloped a career as a performer in comedy, especially gaining notice in the radio version of ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]''. In 1979 Kerr returned to Australia18 KB (2,663 words) - 11:36, 4 August 2024
- {{Short description|BBC comedy sketch show 1981–1988}} * Ray Cameron (Series 1–3)31 KB (4,081 words) - 16:02, 26 January 2023
- ...the formation of The Goodies group and the origins and development of the series|The Goodies}} * [[LWT]] (series 9)16 KB (2,428 words) - 09:01, 15 February 2023
- | medium = Radio, television ...= Character comedy,<br/>[[w:surreal comedy|surreal comedy]], [[w:Sketch comedy|sketch]]41 KB (6,029 words) - 08:58, 6 February 2023
- ...August 2012}}</ref> and [[Drama (British TV channel)|Drama]]. The complete series was released on DVD in November 2004, and is available to stream on [[BBC i The series is set entirely in the [[Cafeteria|canteen]] of HWD Components, a fictional33 KB (4,878 words) - 07:52, 14 March 2023
- ...<br />in a screenshot from the title sequence <br />of the BBC television series |data4 = [[Sketch comedy|Sketch comedy]], [[surreal humour|surreal humour]]40 KB (5,949 words) - 11:58, 24 August 2024
- ...me of his best-remembered work (including "[[The Blood Donor]]" and "[[The Radio Ham]]"). After breaking with his scriptwriters [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Gal ...|page=3}}</ref> He took part in radio shows such as ''[[Workers' Playtime (radio programme)|Workers' Playtime]]''<ref>{{cite journal |title=Coventry Evening33 KB (5,044 words) - 08:50, 6 February 2023