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Bobby Ball

Robert Harper known as Bobby Ball (born 28 January 1944) is an English comedian, best known as one half of the double act Cannon and Ball, with Tommy Cannon.

Gigi e Andrea

Gigi Sammarchi (Bologna, 2 November 1949) and Andrea Roncato (San Lazzaro di Savena, 7 March 1947) are an Italian former comedy duo who worked on stage, films and television as Gigi e Andrea.

Kit and The Widow

Kit and The Widow were a double act, performing humorous songs in the vein of Tom Lehrer or Flanders and Swann; they also cite Anna Russell as an influence.

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).

Mel and Sue

Mel Giedroyc (born 15 June 1968) and Sue Perkins (born 22 September 1969), known collectively as Mel and Sue are an English comedy double act best known for hosting their lunchtime chat shows Light Lunch and Late Lunch.

Radio comedy

The majority of mainstream radio comedy now consists of personality-driven shows hosted by talk-radio hosts such as Howard Stern or comedic duos such as Armstrong & Getty and Bob & Tom.

Sue Heap

Heap is well known for her illustrations in Jacqueline Wilson's books, such as in How to Survive Summer Camp (ISBN 978-0192727046) and Double Act (ISBN 978-0440413745), co-illustrating the latter with Nick Sharratt.

Syd Little

Syd Little (born Cyril Mead on 19 December 1942) is an English comedian and was once the straight man in the double act Little and Large, with Eddie Large.

The Armstrong and Miller Show

It features the double act Armstrong and Miller and a number of notable scriptwriters including Andy Hamilton, creator of Outnumbered, and Jeremy Dyson, creator of The League of Gentlemen.

The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits (double act), featuring Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson, later members of The Comic Strip

Vic Reeves Big Night Out

It marked the beginnings of the collaboration between Vic Reeves (real name Jim Moir) and Bob Mortimer and started their Vic and Bob comedy double act.


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Bob Dyer

Bob and his wife, Dolly, were probably, after Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, the most recognised double act in Australia in the 1960s.

Brian Luff

His weekly stage show Brian Luff's Sketch Club helped showcase the emerging talents of such comedians as Perrier Award winner Laura Solon and Channel 4 double-act Cardinal Burns.

Charlie Naughton

He was a member of The Crazy Gang, and part of a double act with fellow Glaswegian Jimmy Gold.

Cliff Owen

Cliff Owen, (1919–1993) was a British film and TV director best known for his comedy The Wrong Arm of the Law which starred Peter Sellers; he also directed two of the three films celebrated double act Morecambe and Wise made in the mid-1960s, and the big screen version of the classic BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son.

Duncan Button

Duncan asks Theresa to help him so she agrees and Steve (Anthony Crank) the producer tells them that their double act will be great for television.

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.

Linda Wallem

She and fellow writer-performer Peter Tolan formed a double act called Wallem & Tolan and began performing on the cabaret circuit in New York City at such venues as the Manhattan Punch Line.

Listen to Britain

Accepting the myth's fragility, the scene with the music hall double act Flanagan and Allen performing to a working class audience cuts straight to the Queen enjoying the music of Myra Hess at one of the (London) National Gallery's lunch-time classical music concerts.

Mark Arden

Mark Arden (born 31 July 1956 in Newbury, Berkshire) is an English comedian and actor, best known for being one half of comic double act "The Oblivion Boys" with Stephen Frost.

Melanie Hudson

Melanie Hudson is an English actress and comedian, one half of the double act Hudson and Pepperdine along with Vicki Pepperdine.

Murgatroyd and Winterbottom

Murgatroyd and Winterbottom were a comedy double act consisting of British comedians Ronald Frankau and Tommy Handley.

Richard Vranch

He has performed since 1979, and formed a comedy double-act with Tony Slattery in 1981.

Stephen Cheeke

and then went on to read English at the University of Cambridge, where he formed half of a stand-up double-act, God and Jesus, with Simon Munnery.