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Paul James Martin (born 9 July 1957), known professionally as Paul Merton, is an English writer, actor, comedian, radio and television presenter. [1]

136 relations: Adrian Chiles, Alan Simpson (scriptwriter), Alexander Armstrong, Alfred Hitchcock, Angus Deayton, BBC, BBC Four, BBC Online, BBC Radio 4, Ben Miller, Black comedy, British Academy Television Awards, British Academy Television Awards 2003, British Comedy Awards, British Film Institute, British people, Broadcasting Press Guild, Bruce Forsyth, Buster Keaton, Caroline Quentin, Celebrity, Channel 4, Channel 5 (UK), Charlie Chaplin, Clement Freud, Comprehensive school, Countdown (game show), Daniel Kitson, Dara Ó Briain, Deadpan, Des Lynam, Dixe Wills, Edinburgh Comedy Festival, Eleven-plus, Equity (British trade union), Everyday life, Frank Skinner, Freemasonry, Fulham, Fulham F.C., GCE Advanced Level, Grammar school, Harold Lloyd, Harry Hill, Have I Got News for You, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Ian Hislop, Illegal drug trade, Improvisation, Improvisational theatre, ..., Interpersonal relationship, ITV (TV network), ITV Panto, Jimmy Carr, Julian Clary, Just a Minute, Kenneth Williams, Laurel and Hardy, Lee Simpson, London Borough of Merton, London Underground, Marriage, Maudsley Hospital, Mefloquine, Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Morden, More4, Morecambe and Wise, Neil Brand, Neil Mullarkey, News, Nicholas Parsons, Nick Hancock, Noël Coward, Noel Fielding, Observational comedy, Oscar Wilde, Pantomime, Parsons Green, Paul Merton in China, Paul Merton in Europe, Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's..., Paul Merton in India, Paul Merton's Adventures, Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood, Paul Merton's Palladium Story, Paul Merton's Secret Stations, Paul Merton: The Series, Peter Sellers, Physical comedy, Politics, Popular culture, Railroad engineer, Ray Galton, Request stop, Richard Vranch, Richard Whiteley, Ricky Gervais, Ronnie Corbett, Room 101 (TV series), Samantha Womack, Sarah Parkinson, Satire, Saturday Live (UK TV series), Screenonline, Sean Lock, Self-hatred, Sketch comedy, Society of Jesus, Soho, Spike Milligan, Stand-up comedy, Surreal humour, Telegraph Media Group, Thank God You're Here (UK TV series), The Beatles, The Big Fun Show (radio show), The Comedy Store (London), The Comedy Store Players, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Masterson Inheritance, The Observer, The One Show, The Pleasance, The South Bank Show, The Young Ones (TV series), Time (The Young Ones), Tony Hancock, Tooting, Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK TV series), Wimbledon College, Winston Churchill, World history, Yokel. Expand index (86 more) »

Adrian Chiles

Adrian Chiles (born 21 March 1967) is a British television and radio presenter, currently working for BBC Radio 5 Live.

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Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)

Alan Francis Simpson, (27 November 1929 – 8 February 2017) was an English scriptwriter, best known for the Galton and Simpson comedy writing partnership with Ray Galton.

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Alexander Armstrong

Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong (born 2 March 1970) is an English comedian, actor, television presenter and bass baritone singer, best known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller and as host of the BBC TV game show Pointless.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Angus Deayton

Gordon Angus Deayton (born 6 January 1956),is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Ben Miller

Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor and director.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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British Academy Television Awards

The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTA TV Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

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British Academy Television Awards 2003

The 2003 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 13 April at The Dorchester in London.

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British Comedy Awards

The British Comedy Awards were an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Broadcasting Press Guild

The Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) is a British association of journalists dedicated to the topic of general media issues.

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Bruce Forsyth

Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson (22 February 1928 – 18 August 2017) was a British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer, and screenwriter whose career spanned more than 75 years.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.

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Caroline Quentin

Caroline Quentin (born Caroline Jones; 11 July 1960) is an English actress.

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Celebrity

Celebrity refers to the fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups or, occasionally, animals, but is usually applied to the persons or groups of people (celebrity couples, families, etc.) themselves who receive such a status of fame and attention.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Channel 5 (UK)

Channel 5 is a British commercial television network.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Clement Freud

Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 192415 April 2009) was a British broadcaster, writer, politician and chef.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria.

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Countdown (game show)

Countdown is a British game show involving word and number puzzles.

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Daniel Kitson

Daniel Kitson (born 2 July 1977) is an English comedian.

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Dara Ó Briain

Dara Ó Briain (born 4 February 1972) is an Irish comedian and television presenter based in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Deadpan

Deadpan, dry humor or dry wit describes the deliberate display of a lack of or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness of the subject matter.

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Des Lynam

Desmond Michael Lynam, (born 17 September 1942) is an Irish-born British television and radio presenter based in the UK.

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Dixe Wills

Dixe Wills is an author and journalist, mostly writing green travel pieces for The Guardian.

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Edinburgh Comedy Festival

Edinburgh Comedy Festival was a short-lived festival of comedy shows which operated during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2008 and 2009.

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Eleven-plus

The eleven-plus (11-plus) is an examination administered to some students in England and Northern Ireland in their last year of primary education, which governs admission to grammar schools and other secondary schools which use academic selection.

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Equity (British trade union)

Equity, formerly officially titled the British Actors' Equity Association (although Equity was always its common name), is the trade union for actors, stage managers and models in the United Kingdom.

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Everyday life

Everyday life, daily life or routine life comprises the ways in which people typically act, think, and feel on a daily basis.

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Frank Skinner

Frank Skinner (born Christopher Graham Collins; 28 January 1957) is an English writer, comedian, TV and radio presenter, and actor.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Fulham

Fulham is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in South West London, England, south-west of Charing Cross.

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Fulham F.C.

Fulham Football Club is a professional association football club based in Fulham, London, England.

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GCE Advanced Level

The A Level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational authorities of British Crown dependencies to students completing secondary or pre-university education.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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Harold Lloyd

Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer who is best known for his silent comedy films.

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Harry Hill

Harry Hill (born Matthew Keith Hall; 1 October 1964) is an English comedian, author and television presenter.

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Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC.

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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is a BBC radio comedy panel game.

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Ian Hislop

Ian David Hislop (born 13 July 1960) is an English journalist, satirist, writer, broadcaster and editor of the magazine Private Eye.

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Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws.

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Improvisation

Improvisation is creating or performing something spontaneously or making something from whatever is available.

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Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre, often called improv or impro, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers.

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Interpersonal relationship

An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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ITV Panto

The ITV Panto was a series of pantomimes originally broadcast on ITV in 1998, 2000, and 2002.

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Jimmy Carr

James Anthony Patrick Carr (born 15 September 1972) is an English stand-up comedian, presenter, writer, and actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship.

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Julian Clary

Julian Peter McDonald Clary (born 25 May 1959) is an English comedian, actor, presenter and novelist.

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Just a Minute

Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons.

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Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English actor, best known for his comedy roles and in later life as a raconteur and diarist.

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Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.

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Lee Simpson

Lee Simpson is a British actor and comedian best known as a member of the improvisational group The Comedy Store Players.

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London Borough of Merton

The London Borough of Merton is a borough in south-west London, England.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Maudsley Hospital

The Maudsley Hospital is a British psychiatric hospital in south London.

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Mefloquine

Mefloquine, sold under the brand names Lariam among others, is a medication used to prevent or treat malaria.

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Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Ministries of Love, Peace, Plenty, and Truth are ministries in George Orwell's futuristic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, set in Oceania.

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Morden

Morden is a district and town in the London Borough of Merton, England, located around south-southwest of central London.

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More4

More4 is a digital television channel, owned by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Morecambe and Wise

Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (also Eric and Ernie), were an iconic English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television.

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Neil Brand

Neil Brand (born 18 March 1958) is an English dramatist, composer and author.

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Neil Mullarkey

Neil Mullarkey (born 30 November 1961) is an English actor, writer and comedian.

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News

News is information about current events.

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Nicholas Parsons

Christopher Nicholas Parsons (born 10 October 1923) is an English radio and television presenter and actor.

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Nick Hancock

Nick Hancock (born 25 October 1962, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) is an English actor and television presenter.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Noel Fielding

Noel Fielding (born 21 May 1973) is an English comedian, writer, actor, artist, musician and television presenter.

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Observational comedy

Observational comedy is a form of humor based on the commonplace aspects of everyday life.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Pantomime

Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.

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Parsons Green

Parsons Green is a mainly residential district of Fulham in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

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Paul Merton in China

Paul Merton in China was a four-part television series broadcast on Five commencing from 21 May 2007.

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Paul Merton in Europe

Paul Merton in Europe is a six-part television series airing on Channel 5 from 11 January 2010 onwards.

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Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's...

Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's... is a British comedy television show running from 26 January 1996 to 21 October 1997.

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Paul Merton in India

Paul Merton in India is a television show broadcast on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom and Fox History & Entertainment in India.

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Paul Merton's Adventures

Paul Merton's Adventures was a comedy series, first broadcast on the British television channel Channel 5 in October and November 2011.

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Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood

Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood is a 2011 BBC documentary series written, directed and presented by Paul Merton.

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Paul Merton's Palladium Story

Paul Merton's Palladium Story is a two-part British television series first broadcast on BBC1 on 18 and 25 September 1994.

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Paul Merton's Secret Stations

Paul Merton’s Secret Stations is a British travel documentary television series, first broadcast on 1 May 2016 on Channel 4.

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Paul Merton: The Series

Paul Merton: The Series is a British sketch show that aired on Channel 4 from 1991 to 1993.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers, CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English film actor, comedian and singer.

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Physical comedy

Physical comedy is a form of comedy focused on manipulation of the body for a humorous effect.

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Politics

Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Railroad engineer

An engineer (American and Canadian), engine driver, train driver, loco pilot, motorman, train operator (British and Commonwealth English), is a person who operates a train.

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Ray Galton

Raymond Percy Galton, OBE (born 17 July 1930) is an English radio and television scriptwriter, best known for the Galton and Simpson comedy writing partnership with Alan Simpson.

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Request stop

In public transport, a request stop, flag stop, or whistle stop is a stop or station or airport at which trains, buses or airline flights respectively stop only on request; that is, only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or dropped off.

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Richard Vranch

Richard Leslie Vranch (born 29 June 1959, Frome, England) is an English actor, comedian, and musician.

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Richard Whiteley

John Richard Whiteley (28 December 1943 – 26 June 2005) was an English presenter, and journalist, best known for his twenty-three years as host of the game show Countdown.

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Ricky Gervais

Ricky Dene Gervais (born 25 June 1961) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and singer.

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Ronnie Corbett

Ronald Balfour Corbett, CBE (4 December 1930 – 31 March 2016) was a Scottish stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and broadcaster, best known for his long association with Ronnie Barker in the BBC television comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies.

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Room 101 (TV series)

Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities are invited to discuss their pet hates and persuade the host to consign those hates to oblivion in Room 101, a location whose name is inspired by the torture room in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which reputedly contained "the worst thing in the world".

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Samantha Womack

Samantha Zoe Womack (Janus; born 2 November 1972) is a British actress, singer and director, in film, television and stage.

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Sarah Parkinson

Sarah Jane Parkinson (6 June 1962 – 23 September 2003), imdb.com.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Saturday Live (UK TV series)

Saturday Live (Friday Night Live in 1988) is a British television comedy and music show broadcast by Channel 4 from 1985 to 1988.

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Screenonline

Screenonline is a website about the history of British film, television and social history as documented by film and television.

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Sean Lock

Sean Lock (born 22 April 1963) is an English comedian and actor.

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Self-hatred

Self-hatred (also called self loathing) refers to an extreme dislike or hatred of oneself, or being angry at or even prejudiced against oneself.

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Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London.

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Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Milligan, (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was a British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor.

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Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a comic style in which a comedian performs in front of a live audience, usually speaking directly to them.

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Surreal humour

Surreal humour (also known as absurdist humour), or surreal comedy, is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical.

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Telegraph Media Group

The Telegraph Media Group (TMG, previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

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Thank God You're Here (UK TV series)

Thank God You're Here was a improvisational comedy game show based on the original Australian show with the same name.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Big Fun Show (radio show)

The Big Fun Show was a short-lived radio programme that aired from January 1988-February 1988.

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The Comedy Store (London)

The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in Soho, London, England, opened in 1979 by Don Ward and Peter Rosengard.

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The Comedy Store Players

The Comedy Store Players is a group of improvisational comedians known for their performances at The Comedy Store in London.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Masterson Inheritance

The Masterson Inheritance was an improvised comedy series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1993 to 1995 billed as "an improvised historical saga of a family at war with itself." There were three series and two Christmas specials.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The One Show

The One Show is a British television magazine and chat show programme.

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The Pleasance

The Pleasance is a theatre, bar, sports and recreation complex in Edinburgh, Scotland, situated on a street of the same name.

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The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show.

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The Young Ones (TV series)

The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series.

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Time (The Young Ones)

"Time" is the tenth episode of British sitcom The Young Ones.

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Tony Hancock

Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.

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Tooting

Tooting is a district of South London, England, forming part of the Wandsworth borough.

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Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK TV series)

Whose Line is it Anyway? (abbreviated to Whose Line? or WLIIA) is a short-form improvisational comedy television show.

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Wimbledon College

Wimbledon College is a government-maintained, voluntary-aided, Jesuit Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form for boys aged 11 to 19 in Wimbledon, London.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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World history

World history or global history (not to be confused with diplomatic, transnational or international history) is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s.

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Yokel

Yokel is one of several derogatory terms referring to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Merton

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