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3 unusual facts about British comedy


British comedy

Other actors associated with British comedy films include Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Dame Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips.

Kevin Connelly

Kevin Connelly is an impressionist, comedian, and after dinner speaker who is probably best known for his role on the popular BBC radio and television programme Dead Ringers.

Paul Callan

The programme was the first in the UK to combine interviews with celebrities and heavyweight political figures on the same show, blurring the line between classic British comedy and analysis of international affairs.


BritWeek

The BritWeek program offers a series of star-studded events, as well as events representing British connections with California in film, British music, comedy, fashion, food, luxury goods, sports, and science


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A Bolt from the Blue

A Bolt from the Blue is British comedy book and play by David Tristram.

Alone Again Or

It also appeared at the close of the 2009 British comedy movie Bunny and the Bull, playing as the lead character finally breaks free of his obsessions.

AM America

One notable episode of AM America aired on April 25, 1975, when members of the British comedy troupe Monty Python (with the exception of John Cleese, who had temporarily left the group) made one of their earliest appearances on American television.

Anne Lenner

She appeared in the 1940 British comedy film "Garrison Follies" which also included David Tomlinson and Barry Lupino; and on another occasion her singing voice was dubbed for actress Ann Todd.

Annette Badland

Badland was also the presenter of BBC's You and Me in the early 1990s and appeared in the British comedy Three and Out released on 25 April 2008.

Annie Wilkes

British comedy duo French and Saunders parodied Misery on an episode of their television program of the same name, with Dawn French in Bates' role.

Bang Bang You're Dead

Our Man in Marrakesh (also known as Bang! Bang! You're Dead!), a 1966 British comedy spy film

Bonnie Lou

Recently the Tennessee Wig Walk track was featured in a British comedy movie, The Infidel (2010 film) starring British comedian Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff and Matt Lucas.

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell

Charlie Brooker, the British comedy writer, grew up in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell.

Danish Act of Succession referendum, 2009

The Prime Minister's Department admitted the official campaign video is an imitation of a sketch from the British comedy show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme.

Dentist on the Job

Dentist on the Job is a 1961 British comedy film directed by C.M. Pennington-Richards, the sequel to Dentist in the Chair.

Erika Eleniak

In 2006, she appeared on 80's Movie and Music Fest Cafe, a British comedy podcast on iTunes, in which she discussed her career with presenters Ross Dyer and Julian Bayes.

Father and Son

Fathers and Suns, an episode of the British comedy sci-fi TV series Red Dwarf

Finsbury Park station

Finsbury Park is also a character created by the comedian Harry Hill and the station's name was used as a term of amazement and exclamation by British comedy double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer during the series Vic Reeves Big Night Out.

Frances Callier

She is perhaps best known for her co-starring role in the British comedy, 3 Non-Blondes.

Georgina Grenville

Grenville has made cameo appearances in an episode of the British comedy Absolutely Fabulous and in the film 54.

Girls, Please!

Girls, Please! is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Sydney Howard, Jane Baxter, Meriel Forbes and Peter Gawthorne.

Holy Flying Circus

The film is a "Pythonesque" dramatization of the 1979 televised debate on the talk show Friday Night, Saturday Morning between John Cleese and Michael Palin, members of British comedy troupe Monty Python, and Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the then Bishop of Southwark.

I Give It a Year

I Give It a Year is a 2013 British comedy film, written and directed by Dan Mazer and starring Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall, Anna Faris and Simon Baker.

I Really Hate My Job

I Really Hate My Job is a 2007 British comedy film directed by Oliver Parker and starring Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell Martin, Oana Pellea, and Danny Huston as himself.

Jack's the Boy

Jack's the Boy is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Francis Lister and Peter Gawthorne.

Javone Prince

He has appeared in many British comedy television shows, such as; Horrible Histories, Sorry, I've Got No Head and Little Miss Jocelyn.

Jerry Rapp

Rapp wrote and directed the indie feature, The Thing at Pete and Julie’s, the documentary Sound Magic, and, either alone or collaborating has written, directed and produced a number of films which have played in various festivals, including the R&H Educational Film Series for Hypnotic, with Daedalus Howell, which aired on Showtime, as well as British comedy channels.

Just One Time

Just One More Time, 1974 British comedy film directed by Maurice Hamblin

Kevin Cecil

The programme starred Nick Frost, Kevin Eldon and Miranda Hart who was nominated for best newcomer in the British Comedy Awards in 2006 for her role in the programme.

Little and Large

Little and Large were a British comedy double act comprising straight man Syd Little (Born Cyril Mead in 1942) and comic Eddie Large (Born Edward McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941).

Marika Rökk

In 1929 she returned to Europe and the next year acted in her first film, Why Sailors Leave Home, a British comedy directed by Monty Banks, starring Leslie Fuller.

Mother Riley's New Venture

Mother Riley's New Venture is a 1949 British comedy film directed by John Harlow, starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane and Chili Bouchier.

Next to No Time

Next to No Time is a 1958 British comedy starring Kenneth More, Betsy Drake, John Laurie, Sid James and Irene Handl.

Nigel Stonier

In 2006 a song composed by Nigel Stonier and award winning jazz artiste Clare Teal (“Messin' With Fire”) was featured on the soundtrack of the hit British comedy movie “Confetti”, performed by Teal.

Oliver Welke

Together with Oliver Kalkofe, whom he met while working for a public radio station, he provided the German voices for Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and the British comedy show Little Britain, and also co-wrote the script for the crime film parody Der WiXXer.

Operation Bernhard

In the British comedy series Goodnight Sweetheart starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, the episode "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" involves the main characters catching a Nazi spy who uttering notes, forged by Operation Bernhard, in local pubs and shops in London.

Orders Is Orders

Orders Is Orders is a 1934 British comedy film starring Charlotte Greenwood, James Gleason and Cyril Maude about an American film crew who move into a British army barracks to start making a film, much to the commander's horror.

Parkinson's law

A "generalization" of Parkinson's law, is mentioned in an episode of British comedy series Yes Minister, The Skeleton in the Cupboard, originally aired on November 25, 1982.

Pyongyang International Film Festival

The ninth festival, held in 2004, moderated cultural restrictions further with the screening of a dubbed and censored version of the British comedy Bend It Like Beckham and U.S.-produced South African drama Cry, The Beloved Country.

Ray Cooney

With Tony Hilton, he co-wrote the screenplay for the British comedy film What a Carve Up! (1961), which features Sid James and Kenneth Connor.

Regent Hotel

More recently the cast and crew of the British comedy Keeping Up Appearances including Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift and Geoffrey Hughes stayed at the hotel whilst filming in Leamington.

Reginald Mount

Mount also designed the cinema poster for the British comedy film The Ladykillers.

Robert Aickman

In 2001, Tartarus Press reissued the former volume in a new edition with a foreword by the writer and Aickman enthusiast Jeremy Dyson of the British comedy quartet The League of Gentlemen.

Soi Cowboy

Two 1-hour episodes of the British comedy/drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet were shot in Bangkok in the Summer of 2004, partly in Soi Cowboy.

Stephen Critchlow

He reprised his role as Kenneth Horne in Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! - a BBC film drama about the life and death of the legendary British comedy icon Kenneth Williams.

The Headless Ghost

The Headless Ghost is an 1959 British comedy horror film directed by Peter Graham Scott.

The Wrong Goodbye

The Wrong Goodbye (Doc Martin), an episode of the British comedy-drama series, Doc Martin.

The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star

The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star is a British comedy series, which aired on Channel 4 in 1998.

Uglydolls

Uglydoll Action Figures can be seen in the background on bookshelves in the British comedy show, "The IT Crowd."

What's Good for the Goose

What's Good For The Goose, also known as Girl Trouble, is a 1969 British comedy film, and was Norman Wisdom's last starring role in a film.