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Quiz Monkey |
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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 |  | Abbott & Costello |
| Bud Abbott |
| Lou Costello | |||
| 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 | | Adam & Joe |
| Adam Buxton |
| Joe Cornish | |||
| 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 | | Armstrong & Miller |
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Alexander Armstrong |
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Ben Miller | |||
| Thomas Derbyshire and Robert Harper | | Cannon & Ball |
| Tommy Cannon |
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Bobby Ball | |||
| Original 'laddish' presenters of Fantasy Football League (BBC2, 1994–6); collaborated with the Lightning Seeds in the classic football anthem Three Lions (1996) | | Baddiel & Skinner |
| David Baddiel |
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Frank Skinner | |||
| Barry and Paul Elliott (born in Rotherham, in 1944 and 1947 respectively; Barry died in 2018 |
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Chuckle Brothers | ||
| Cissie & Ada (two fictional, gossiping housewives from Northern England – more specifically, Lancashire) | Cissie Braithwaite | | Les Dawson | |
Ada Shufflebottom |
| Roy Barraclough | ||
| 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 | | Peter Cook | ||
| Dudley Moore | |||
| Chaim Weintrop and his partner – active mainly in the 1930s and 40s | | Flanagan & Allen |
| Bud Flanagan |
| (William Ernest) Chesney Allen | |||
| 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" |
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Flight of the Conchords | ||
| 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? | | French & Saunders |
| Dawn French |
| Jennifer Saunders | |||
| 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 | | Fry & Laurie |
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Stephen Fry |
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Hugh Laurie | |||
| The Two Rons (a.k.a. The Management); children's TV presenters Billy and Johnny | | Hale & Pace |
| Gareth Hale |
| Norman Pace | |||
| George Logan and Patrick Fyffe (playing two elderly, intellectual female musicians) | | Hinge & Bracket |
| Dr. Evadne Hinge |
| Dame Hilda Bracket | |||
| 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) | | Laurel & Hardy |
| Stan (Stanley) Laurel |
| Oliver (Ollie) Hardy | |||
| Stars of Fist of Fun (BBC Radio 1 1993 and BBC2 television 1995) and This Morning with Richard but Not Judy (BBC2, 1998–9) | | Lee & Herring |
| Stewart Lee |
| Richard Herring | |||
| Cyril John Mead and Edward Hugh McGinnis | | Little & Large |
| Syd Little |
| Eddie Large | |||
| Presented (among other things) the Radio 1 Breakfast Show for 10 months in 1997, and an early afternoon show 1997–2004 |
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Mark & Lard |
| Mark Radcliffe |
| Marc Riley | |||
| 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.) | | Rik Mayall | ||
| Ade (Adrian) Edmondson | |||
| 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 | | Mel & Sue |
| Mel Giedroyc |
| Sue Perkins | |||
| 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 |
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The Mighty Boosh |
| Julian Barrett |
| Noel Fielding | |||
| Stars of the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, and BBC radio and TV sketch shows That ... Sound and That ... Look | | Mitchell & Webb |
| David Mitchell |
| Robert Webb | |||
| Morecambe & Wise: real names | (Eric) Morecambe | | John Eric Bartholomew | |
| (Ernie) Wise | | Ernest Wiseman | ||
| 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) | | The National Theatre of Brent | ||
| Joined Punt and Dennis in 1989 to form The Mary Whitehouse Experience; later starred as [Themselves] In Pieces on BBC2 | | Newman & Baddiel |
| Rob Newman |
| David Baddiel | |||
| 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 | | Amy Poehler | ||
| Tina Fey | |||
| 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) | | Punt & Dennis |
| Steve Punt |
| Hugh Dennis | |||
| Simon Morley and David Friend: Australian originators of a "live performance–art show" genre, sometimes referred to as 'dick tricks' |
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Puppetry of the Penis | ||
| Ryan & Ronnie (BBC Wales, English language version 1971–3): surnames | Ryan | | Davies | |
| Ronnie | | Williams | ||
| Two of the stars of Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–82); starred as a duo in their own BBC series (1984–98) | | Mel Smith | ||
| Gryff Rhys Jones | |||
| 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) |
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Trev(or) and Simon |
| Trevor Neal |
| Simon Hickson | |||
| Islington–born brothers, real surname Weinstein; their television show (1965–73) was ITV's answer to Morecambe & Wise | | Mike & Bernie Winters | ||
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