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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.
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).
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 ...
Reeves and Mortimer, colloquially known as Vic and Bob, are a British double act consisting of Vic Reeves (born 24 January 1959; real name Jim Moir) and Bob Mortimer (born 23 May 1959). They have written and starred in several comedy programmes on British television since 1990, with Reeves having made his first TV appearance in 1986.
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]
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.
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]
Bobby Ball (1944–2020) – one half of comedy double act Cannon and Ball; born in Boundary Park General Hospital [5] [6] Tony Barber (born 1940) − radio and television host and Gold Logie winner [7] Lydia Becker (1827–1890) – leading 19th-century suffragette, born in Chadderton's Foxdenton Hall [8]