The Two Ronnies (4038 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tworonniesspecs.JPG|left|The Two Ronnies famous spectacles logo]]
2: [[Image:Tworonnies0.JPG|thumb|150px|Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett...
3: ...rker]] and [[Ronnie Corbett]], the two Ronnies of the title.
5: ...w by the BBC. The programme quickly became one of the most successful and long running television comed...
7: ...of the seven, one-hour-long editions of the ''Two Ronnies'' produced annually between 1971 and 1987.

Ronnie Corbett (838 bytes)
1: ...tish]] comedian, best known as one of the ''[[Two Ronnies]]''.
3: ... continued to play minor parts occasionally since the end of this - notably playing [[Griselda]] in a t...

Paul Jackson (793 bytes)
1: ...nnies]]'', ''[[The Young Ones (television series)|The Young Ones]]'', and ''[[Red Dwarf (television)|Re...
3: He hosts the [[BBC]] [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] series ''[[In Con...
5: ...n|BBC]]'s Controller of Entertainment. He is now the managing director of [[Granada Australia]].

Madeline Smith (940 bytes)
1: ...] [[actor|actress]]/comedienne who was a model in the 1960s and appeared in many 1960s/1970s comedy fil...
3: ...ncluded [[The Vampire Lovers]], [[Up Pompeii]], [[The Amazing Mister Blunden]] and [[Roger Moore]]'s fi...
9: ...y regarded as a convicted [[murder]]ess. In fact, the verdict given at her trial was [[not proven]].

Ronnie Barker (3717 bytes)
1: ...a character actor, his love for and facility with the English language, and his gift for comedy have ma...
3: ...career; without men like these, there would be no theatre."
5: ...ge'' and ''Open All Hours'' originated as part of the ''[[Seven of One]]'' series.
7: ...e'', the plays ''Rub A Dub Dub'' and ''Mum'', and the LP ''A Pint of Old and Filthy''.
9: ...nced that he would make new episodes of ''The Two Ronnies'' with [[Ronnie Corbett]].

Barry Cryer (1450 bytes)
1: ...]] and [[comedian]]. He started at the [[Windmill Theatre]], [[London]], a club which showed comedy act...
3: ...], [[Richard Pryor]], [[Mike Yarwood]], [[The Two Ronnies]] and [[Morecambe and Wise]].
5: ... the three performers bouncing jokes off of each other.
7: ...Willie Rushton]] in the show ''[[Two Old Farts in the Night]]'', which was released on video, and ''Tha...
9: ...y years, he has been, and continues to be, one of the panellists on ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue]]''....

Carol Cleveland (1617 bytes)
1: ...arolCleveland2.jpg|thumb|right|Carol Cleveland as the stereotypical blonde. Pictured with Idle and Pali...
2: ...l four ''Monty Python'' TV series and all four of the ''Monty Python'' movies.
3: ...were brilliant and hilarious. She called herself the '''glamour stooge'''.
5: ...[MAD Magazine]]'' at age 15. She also studied at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] and now perform...
7: Her mother, Pat, appeared in ''Monty Python'' on several oc...

Andy Hamilton (1452 bytes)
1: ...as appeared in [[The News Quiz]] and [[If I Ruled the World]], and is an occasional guest panelist in [...
3: ... University|Cambridge]], where he was a member of the [[Cambridge University Light Entertainment Societ...
10: *[[The Kit Curran Radio Show]] (1984; with [[Guy Jenkin]...
12: *The Return of Shelley ([[1988]])
13: *[[Drop the Dead Donkey]] ([[1990]]; with Guy Jenkin)

Spoonerism (2284 bytes)
1: ...eet?." The spoonerism is a now legendary 'slip of the tongue.'
3: ...the hags flung out", "a half-warmed fish" and "Is the bean dizzy?"
5: ... some of which may be considered spoonerisms. "If the [[terrier]]s and bariffs are torn down, this econ...
8: ... show. An alleged spoonerism led to the nickname "the [[Canadian Broadcorping Castration]]."
10: ...nnish language]] (such as [[vowel harmony]]) lend themselves well for this purpose, and Finnish ''sanan...

Bill Cotton (2234 bytes)
1: ...n various programmes such as his father’s ''The Billy Cotton Band Show'' and popular music progra...
3: ... culture and drawing huge audience figures, while the more subversive ''Monty Python'' provided a more ...
5: ...ures in [[1979]], although this was mostly due to the main opposition, [[ITV]], being on strike for ove...
7: ...y done some freelance executive producing work in the light entertainment area.
9: ... British Broadcasting, and is a Vice President of the [[Marie Curie]] Cancer Care charity.

British Comedy Awards 1999 (2672 bytes)
11: * ''[[The Royle Family]]''
17: ...* ''[[The League of Gentlemen (television series)|The League of Gentlemen]]''
27: ...* ''[[The League of Gentlemen (television series)|The League of Gentlemen]]''
28: ** ''[[Smack the Pony]]''
33: ** ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]''

Marty Feldman (2717 bytes)
1: ...]] actor, famous for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a [[thyroid]] condition.
3: ...ably the ground-breaking BBC radio show ''[[Round the Horne]]'', which starred [[Kenneth Horne]] and [[...
4: He was also a writer on ''[[The Frost Report]]'' with several future [[Monty Pyth...
6: ...y Surveying''. The sketch was revived as part of the [[Monty Python]] stage show repertoire (without F...
8: ...eldman had a memorable series of his own shows on the [[BBC]], called ''It's Marty''.

David Renwick (2705 bytes)
1: ... the [[sitcom]] ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]'' and the mystery series ''[[Jonathan Creek]]''
3: ...tch show ''[[Stuff]]'' and [[Spike Milligan]]'s ''There's a Lot of It About''.
5: ...|feature film]] version. In [[1983]] they wrote ''The Steam Video Company'' for [[Thames Television]], ...
7: ... generally regarded as being a poor adaptation of the original.
9: ...ral months to establish all of the intricacies of the plots.

Double act (3754 bytes)
1: ...the purpose of the feed being to set up jokes for the comic. This would rely heavily on comic timing.
3: ...nie Wise]] was the feed, it was in reality one of the most equal relationships of its genre.
5: ...largely interchangeable. More obvious examples of the comic-feed dynamic are [[Cannon and Ball]] or [[L...
7: ...ir work was produced in the form of short films rather than stand-up routines and sketches.
9: ...al double acts, when the partnership dissolved in the late '70s, it was Peter whose career stalled due ...

Sketch comedy (4479 bytes)
1: ...e performed by a small group of comedic actors, either on stage or through a video medium such as telev...
3: ...d City]], the [[Upright Citizens Brigade]], and [[The Groundlings]].
5: ...nclude ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', ''[[SCTV]]'', the ''[[Upright Citizens Brigade]]'', and ''[[Mr. Sho...
7: ...th such shows as ''[[Monty Python]]'' and ''[[Not the Nine O'clock News]]''.
9: ...Show]]''; the "Head Crusher" from ''[[The Kids in the Hall]]''; [[Martin Short]]'s "[[Ed Grimley]]", a ...

List of entertainer pairs (3737 bytes)
11: ...alk|Click & Clack]] (colleagues) ("the Tappet brothers") (Tom and Ray Magliosi)
19: ... Haim|Haim]] and [[Corey Feldman|Feldman]] (''the two Coreys'')
24: ... (fictional; couples) Played couples in battle-of-the-sexes comedies such as ''Pillow Talk''
25: ...h Richards|Richards]] (colleagues, songwriters, [[The Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones]])
28: ...McCartney|McCartney]] (colleagues, songwriters, [[The Beatles|Beatles]])

Christmas in the media (4607 bytes)
1: ...nd ratings through their cultivation of Christmas themes.
4: ...de, by magically showing him how much he meant to the world around him.
6: ...a Santa Claus]]" are among the most well-known of these true tales of Christmas.
8: ...ksgiving, as their themes are not so popular once the season is over.
11: ...on Christmas Day at 3 p.m., charting her views of the past year and giving her own reflections and advi...

British comedy (5161 bytes)
1: ... and memorable comic [[actors]] and characters in the last fifty years.
3: ... through the ''[[1950s]]''. Another was ''[[Round the Horne]]''.
5: ...essionists]] and [[British sitcom|sitcoms]] being the four most popular formats.
7: ...[[French and Saunders]], [[Little Britain]] and [[The Fast Show]].
9: ...nly Fools and Horses]]'', ''[[Blackadder]]'', ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'', ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', and '...

Chesney and Wolfe (4702 bytes)
1: ...0s [[sitcom |sitcoms]] ''The Rag Trade'' and ''On The Buses''.
5: ...ss. He began to write potential radio scripts for the [[BBC]] and that's where he came into contact wit...
7: ...nd served in World War II as a radio engineer. In the early 1950s he began to contribute to radio scrip...
11: ...rs earlier they had written a one-off special for the BBC entitled Here's Archie, which also featured B...
13: ... the battles and conflicts between the bosses and the workers, and contained a certain degree of social...

List of British comedians (10244 bytes)
1: ...but they are included here because this page uses the word "comedian" in its broadest possible sense.
22: *[[Bill Bailey]], (The Bill Bailey Show)
27: *[[Angus Deayton]] (in the [[HeeBeeGeebees]])
29: *[[John Hegley]] also performs as half of the "Popticians"
31: *[[Sid Kipper]] also performed as half of the "Kipper Family"

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