• South Africa (The Goodies)
  * [[Skip Martin (actor)|Skip Martin]] as the New President of South Africa "'''South Africa'''" is an episode of the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] telev
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• Sheila Steafel
  {{short description|South African-born British actress}} | birth_place = [[w:Johannesburg|Johannesburg]], South Africa
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• Stratford Johns
  | birth_place = [[Pietermaritzburg]], [[Union of South Africa|South Africa]] ...uary 2002}}</ref> After serving as a [[able seaman|deckhand]] in the South African navy during [[World War II]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.
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• Moira Lister
  | birth_place = [[Cape Town]], South Africa | death_place = Cape Town, South Africa
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• The Men from the Ministry
  * [[Wilfrid Hyde-White]] (1962–65) ...Sweden|Sweden]], and [[Springbok Radio|Springbok Radio]] in [[South Africa|South Africa]], where it was made into a feature-length film [https://www.imdb.co
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• Sid James
  | birth_place = [[w:Johannesburg|Johannesburg]], South Africa ...'''; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976) was a British actor and comedian, born in South Africa, whose career encompassed radio, stage and screen, he was best known
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• List of The Goodies episodes
  |RAltTitle = <br />"The British Film Industry" / "The Black & White, Western, Epic Movie" / "BBC" / "The Choices of Film Creation" |Title = [[South Africa (The Goodies)|South Africa]]
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• Anna Karen
  | birth_place = [[w:Durban|Durban]], [[w:South Africa|South Africa]] ...Karen developed an interest in acting at a young age, and joined the South African National Theatre at the age of fifteen. She starred in several touring prod
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• Goodness Gracious Me (TV series)
  ...e radio series those parts were played by the cast themselves. Some of the white characters were also played by [[Amanda Holden]] and [[Emma Kennedy]]. ...1996 novel ''[[Anita and Me]]'', Syal had referred to British parodies of south Asian speech as "a goodness-gracious-me accent".)
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• Carry On Up the Jungle
  ...e fearless (and lecherous) Bill Boosey ([[Sid James]]) and his slow-witted African guide Upsidasi ([[Bernard Bresslaw]] in [[blackface]]). Also on the expedit ...at wears a loincloth and sandals. Ug has never before seen any other white people, especially a woman. The next day, June stumbles across a beautiful [[oasis
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• Bill Kerr
  | birth_place = [[Cape Town]], [[Cape Province]], South Africa Born in South Africa, he started his career as a [[child actor]] in Australia, before emi
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• Chuckle Brothers
  ...lace = {{Nowrap|[[Rotherham]], <!-- IMPORTANT: Please do NOT change to "South Yorkshire". That county was only formed in 1974, 27 years after the Chuckle | people = [[Eamonn Holmes]] and [[Ruth Langsford]] (Presenters), Paul Elliot (Guest
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• Nigel Hawthorne
  ...2009)</ref> When Nigel was three years old, the family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where his father had bought a practice. Initially they lived in the ...name="green">Michael Green (2004) ''Around and About: Memoires of a South African Newspaperman'', David Philip Publishers, Cape Town {{ISBN|0-86486-660-7}}</
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• Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)
  ...extravaganza", this time at the [[Scala Theatre]] singing the role of the White Cat and Bootblack in the juvenile opera ''[[Bluebell in Fairyland]]''. The ...passed out because he was drunk. When he came on set with a crate of [[R. White's Lemonade]] everyone knew that he had been on another binge. He smoked [[W
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• Mervyn Johns
  ...London, and began touring with her family's theatre company. While touring South Africa on 23 October 1923, their only child, [[Glynis Johns|Glynis Margaret ...his stage debut while he and his first wife, Alice Steele, were touring [[South Africa]] in 1923. He had various roles in [[West End theatre|West End]] pro
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• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  * [[Michael White (producer)|Michael White]] * Michael White Productions
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• Dame Edna Everage
  ...ng celebrities like ordinary people (on her television shows) and ordinary people like celebrities (in her stage shows) have become signatures.<ref>{{Harvnb| ...de over the years, she was born Edna May Beazley in [[Wagga Wagga]], [[New South Wales]], with a sibling who would give birth to [[Barry McKenzie]]. Everage
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• The Goon Show series 2
  ...rs to it as ''the Goon Show'' (or that ''Goon Show'') but never as ''Crazy People'' (which quite frankly could be applied to almost any comedy show).’ ...e by the [[BBFC|BBFC]], and an early amendment to the schedule for ''Crazy People'' was that the show would be pre-empted on Tuesday 26 February to make way
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• George Martin
  ...e on the River Kwai]]'', being based on the 1957 ''Goon Show'' episode "An African Incident". It was intended to have the same name as the film, but shortly b ...terwards, the tape was destroyed, and the 11 September recording with Andy White on drums was used for all subsequent releases.<ref>Lewisohn, Mark (1988). T
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• The Fast Show
  * '''Archie the pub bore''' (Whitehouse). Talks to people in the pub, and when they mention their profession, no matter what it is an ...es also randomly changes (e.g., from colour to [[black and white|black-and-white]]). In one episode he expresses doubt about whether everything really is 'b
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