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Comedy Double Acts

The most popular comedy team of the 1940s and 1950s (according to Wikipedia), and the world's highest–paid entertainers during World War II; their patter routine Who's on First? is considered one of the greatest comedy routines of all time; a version appears in their 1945 film The Naughty Nineties Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Hosted their own show on Channel 4, 1996–2001; won the Royal Television Society Best Newcomers Award in 1998; presented BBC 3's coverage of Glastonbury Festival in 2000 and 2002 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Appeared on several episodes of ITV's Saturday Live in 1996 as Norwegian rock band Strijka; on four Channel 4 series together in their own names, 1997–2007; launched a series of podcasts entitled Timeghost in 2008, parodying art and culture critics Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Thomas Derbyshire and Robert Harper Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Original 'laddish' presenters of Fantasy Football League (BBC2, 1994–6); collaborated with the Lightning Seeds in the classic football anthem Three Lions (1996) Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Barry and Paul Elliott (born in Rotherham, in 1944 and 1947 respectively; Barry died in 2018 Click to show or hide the answer
Cissie & Ada (two fictional, gossiping housewives from Northern England – more specifically, Lancashire) Cissie Braithwaite Click to show or hide the answer
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Appeared in the Cambridge Footlights revue Beyond the Fringe, along with Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett; their television career began with Not Only ... But Also (three series, 1964–70); created the deliriously scatalogical Derek and Clive Click to show or hide the answer
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Chaim Weintrop and his partner – active mainly in the 1930s and 40s Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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New Zealand–based Bret McKenzie and Jermaine Clement: like to refer to themselves as "the almost award–winning fourth–most–popular folk duo in New Zealand" Click to show or hide the answer
Met at drama school, starred in The Comic Strip; best remembered for their BBC TV series, 1987–2017, which featured (among other things) wildly–extravagant spoofs of films such as Thelma & Louise, Misery, Titanic, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Met at Cambridge University through Emma Thompson (a mutual friend); BBC TV series A Bit Of ... ran for four series, 1989–95; starred as Jeeves & Wooster, 1990–3 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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The Two Rons (a.k.a. The Management); children's TV presenters Billy and Johnny Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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George Logan and Patrick Fyffe (playing two elderly, intellectual female musicians) Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Officially became a team in the silent short film Putting Pants on Philip (1927); their iconic theme tune is entitled The Cuckoo Song (a.k.a. Ku–Ku or The Dance of the Cuckoos) Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Stars of Fist of Fun (BBC Radio 1 1993 and BBC2 television 1995) and This Morning with Richard but Not Judy (BBC2, 1998–9) Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Cyril John Mead and Edward Hugh McGinnis Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Presented (among other things) the Radio 1 Breakfast Show for 10 months in 1997, and an early afternoon show 1997–2004 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Met at Manchester University in the late 1970s; made their names at the Comedy Store (London), performing as 20th Century Coyote, later the Dangerous Brothers; went on to appear in The Comic Strip, The Young Ones, Bottom (etc.) Click to show or hide the answer
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Got their television breakthrough on French & Saunders; hosted Light/Late Lunch on Channel 4, 1997–9; original presenters of The Great British Bake–Off (2010–16); their 2018 revival of The Generation Game lasted only two shows Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Met at a comedy club in High Wycombe; performed together at the Edinburgh Festival, intending to become 'the new Goodies' with a musically–led surreal style of comedy; starred in three ITV series (2004–7) and two sell–out tours, but (as of 2024) haven't worked together since 2009 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Stars of the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, and BBC radio and TV sketch shows That ... Sound and That ... Look Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Morecambe & Wise: real names (Eric) Morecambe Click to show or hide the answer
(Ernie) Wise Click to show or hide the answer
Desmond Olivier Dingle (the alter ego of comedian and actor Patrick Barlow) is the founder, artistic director and chief executive (aided and abetted by various assistants over the years) of (mock two–man theatre troupe) Click to show or hide the answer
Joined Punt and Dennis in 1989 to form The Mary Whitehouse Experience; later starred as [Themselves] In Pieces on BBC2 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Duo formed on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment; went on to appear together in films including Mean Girls (2004), Baby Mama (2008), Sisters (2015) and Wine Country (2019); hosted the Golden Globe Awards four times, 2013–21 Click to show or hide the answer
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Met at Cambridge Footlights in the 1980s; first appeared on TV in Jasper Carrott's shows in the late 1980s; joined Newman & Baddiel in 1989 to form The Mary Whitehouse Experience; hosts of The Now Show (BBC Radio 4, 1998 to the present) Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Simon Morley and David Friend: Australian originators of a "live performance–art show" genre, sometimes referred to as 'dick tricks' Click to show or hide the answer
Ryan & Ronnie (BBC Wales, English language version 1971–3): surnames Ryan Click to show or hide the answer
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Two of the stars of Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–82); starred as a duo in their own BBC series (1984–98) Click to show or hide the answer
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Best known for their anarchic but family–friendly alternative comedy, on BBC1 Saturday–morning shows Going Live! (1987–93) and Live and Kicking (1993–97) Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
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Islington–born brothers, real surname Weinstein; their television show (1965–73) was ITV's answer to Morecambe & Wise Click to show or hide the answer

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