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This is a list of comedians of British birth or famous mainly in Britain. Many of the comedy panel-game regulars and sitcom actors may not be regarded as comedians by some people but they are included here because this page uses the word "comedian" in its broadest possible sense.
Jack Dee is the youngest of three children born to Rosemary (née Stamper) and Geoffrey Dee, after Joanna Innes Dee and David Simon Innes Dee.He was born in the Municipal Borough of Bromley, Kent [3] (now within the London Borough of Bromley) and grew up in Petts Wood [4] before moving with his family to Winchester when he was young.
Hong Kong Phooey is an American Saturday morning animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and originally broadcast on ABC.The original episodes aired from September 7 to December 21, 1974, and then in repeats until 1976. [1]
A prime example of his ability to make his co-stars laugh uncontrollably involved Lyle Waggoner as a captured American airman, with Conway as a stereotypical blond-haired Gestapo agent charged with his interrogation. Stating that "the Fuhrer" had taken particular interest, Conway produced a small Hitler hand puppet.
This is an episode list of American sketch comedy show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. The show consisted of a series of rapid-fire gags and sketches, and occasionally featured numerous guest stars in one episode. Many popular entertainers of the 1960s and early 1970s appeared on Laugh-In portraying characters in comedy sketches or appearing as ...
Many Canadian comedians have been influenced by American and British culture and humour. They blend the comic traditions of these cultures with Canadian humour while maintaining an outsider perspective, the latter providing a separation or ironic distance which has allowed for keen observational humour, impressions and parody.
Game for a Laugh was spoofed in Not the Nine O'Clock News, in a sketch showing a man (played by Rowan Atkinson) returning home from work to find his wife brutally beheaded. He runs out into the street screaming before being approached by the crew who then shout "Game for a Laugh", whereupon they all share the joke, despite the fact that the man ...
Paul Edward Lynde (/ l ɪ n d /; June 13, 1926 – January 10, 1982) [1] [2] was an American comedian, actor and game show panelist. A character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often poked fun at his closeted homosexuality, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched, the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie and a regular "center square ...