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Flanagan and Allen were both also members of the Crazy Gang and worked with that team for many years concurrently with their double-act career. [ 1 ] Flanagan and Allen's songs featured the same, usually gentle, humour for which the duo were known in their live performances, and during the Second World War they reflected the experiences of ...
A double act (also known as a comedy duo) is a form of comedy originating in the British music hall tradition, [1] and American vaudeville, in which two comedians perform together as a single act, often highlighting differences in their characters' personalities.
Michael Faraday Prize, Royal Society, 1999; Edwin Stevens Medal (the Royal Society of Medicine) 2003; Aventis Prize, Royal Society 2004; Al-Hammadi Medal, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 2005; Twenty-three honorary doctorates; The VLV Award for the most outstanding personal contribution to British television in 2004 [citation needed]
Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo and musicians. Michael Flanders (1922–1975) was a lyricist, actor, and singer. He collaborated with Donald Swann (1923–1994), a composer and pianist, in writing and performing comic songs.
Lee and Herring were a British standup comedy double act consisting of the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring.They were most famous for their work on television, most notably Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard Not Judy but had been working together on stage and on radio since the late 1980s.
Cigarette card showing Dean (left) and Collinson. Collinson and Dean were a British comedy double act popular during the 1920s and 1930s. They were Will Collinson (born William Valentine Malivoire; 14 February 1882 – June 1958) and Alfie Dean (born Alfred Corfield; 7 March 1902 – 22 September 1948).
Mike Hope (born Michael Gerard Harrison; 17 June 1935 – 12 April 2019) and Albie Keen (born Thomas Albert Henry Harrison; 4 June 1935 – 2 March 2020) were a British comedy double act. They were first cousins, the sons of British Variety comedians Syd and Max Harrison [1] and first formed their act, as singers, dancers and acrobats, in 1956. [2]
Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod are a duo of Scottish BAFTA-nominated [1] magicians and comedians whose work has been seen on television and on stage around the world. The double act are known for their comically dark performing style, for taking as inspiration the accounts of Biblical miracles and faking paranormal phenomena to form the basis for some of their illusions.