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The Comic Strip

Index The Comic Strip

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians who came to prominence in the 1980s. [1]

146 relations: A Fistful of Dollars, Absolutely Fabulous, Ade Edmondson, Alex Rocco, Alexei Sayle, Alternative Cabaret, Alternative comedy, Andalusia, Annette Crosbie, Antony Sher, Arnold Brown (comedian), Aspect ratio (image), Bad News (Bad News album), Bad News (band), Barry Dennen, BBC, BBC Two, Benjamin Zephaniah, Beverly D'Angelo, Birmingham City Council, Bob Spiers, Bottom (TV series), Brian May, Burt Reynolds, Castle Donington, Channel 4, Christian Slater, Christopher Ryan, Churchill: The Hollywood Years, Comic Relief, David Stafford (writer), Dawn French, Def Leppard, Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown, Dexter Fletcher, Didn't You Kill My Brother?, Doon Mackichan, Dorset, Doug Lucie, Eat the Rich (film), Elvis Costello, Enid Blyton, Executive producer, Film, Filthy Rich & Catflap, Five Go Mad in Dorset, French and Saunders, Gary Beadle, GLC: The Carnage Continues..., Gold (UK TV channel), ..., Graham Crowden, Harry Enfield, Herbert Lom, Hugh Cornwell, Ian Emes, ITV (TV network), Jack Nicholson, Jennifer Saunders, Jeremy Isaacs, Jim Broadbent, John Sessions, Johnny Vegas, Julien Temple, Kate Bush, Kathy Burke, Keith Allen (actor), Kevin Allen (actor), Layer Cake (film), Lemmy, Lenny Henry, Leslie Phillips, Lionel Jeffries, London, Marillion, Mark Williams (actor), Master of ceremonies, Maxine Peake, Michael White (producer), Miranda Richardson, Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door, Netflix, Neve Campbell, Nicholas Parsons, Nigel Planer, Nosher Powell, Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Bartel, Paul Jackson (producer), Paul McCartney, Pauline Melville, Pete Richens, Peter Capaldi, Peter Cook, Peter Richardson (British director), Phil Cornwell, Police, Queen (band), Rastafari, Richard Vernon, Rik Mayall, Robbie Coltrane, Robin Williams, Ron Tarr, Ronald Allen, Rose d'Or, Rowland Rivron, Ruby Wax, Russell Tovey, San José (Almeria), Sandy Johnson (director), Sara Stockbridge, Satire, Saturday Live (UK TV series), Shaftesbury, Sheridan Smith, Soho, South Atlantic Raiders, Spain, Stella Street, Stephen Frears, Stephen Mangan, Steven O'Donnell (actor), Tamer Hassan, Television, Television director, The Bullshitters: Roll Out The Gunbarrel, The Comedy Store (London), The Famous Five (novel series), The Hunt for Tony Blair, The New Statesman, The Pope Must Die, The Professionals (TV series), The Rocky Horror Show, The Strike, The Supergrass, The Yob, The Young Ones (TV series), Theatre, Tim McInnerny, Totnes, TV Pixie, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Vic and Bob, Wiltshire, 16:9, 20th Century Coyote. Expand index (96 more) »

A Fistful of Dollars

A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari, titled on-screen as Fistful of Dollars) is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, alongside Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joseph Egger.

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Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a BBC sitcom created by, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders.

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Ade Edmondson

Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, musician, television presenter and director.

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Alex Rocco

Alessandro Federico Petricone, Jr. (February 29, 1936 – July 18, 2015), known professionally as Alex Rocco, was an American actor.

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Alexei Sayle

Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, author and former recording artist, and was a central figure in the alternative comedy movement in the 1980s.

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Alternative Cabaret

Alternative Cabaret was a collective of politically motivated performers and musicians.

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Alternative comedy

Alternative comedy is a term coined in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era but can also be found in cartoons.

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Andalusia

Andalusia (Andalucía) is an autonomous community in southern Spain.

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Annette Crosbie

Annette Crosbie, (born 12 February 1934) is a Scottish actor.

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Antony Sher

Sir Antony Sher, KBE (born 14 June 1949) is a British actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee, who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director.

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Arnold Brown (comedian)

Arnold Brown (born 1936, Glasgow) is a Scottish Jewish comedian, one of the main figures in the alternative comedy scene of the early 1980s.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image describes the proportional relationship between its width and its height.

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Bad News (Bad News album)

Bad News is the self-titled debut album from British heavy metal group Bad News released in October 1987 by EMI.

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Bad News (band)

Bad News were an English spoof heavy metal band, created for the Channel 4 television series The Comic Strip Presents....

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Barry Dennen

Barry Dennen (February 22, 1938 – September 26, 2017) was an American actor, singer and writer.

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BBC

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

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958)Gregory, Andy (2002), International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002, Europa, p. 562.

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Beverly D'Angelo

Beverly Heather D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951) is an American actress and singer, who starred as Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon's Vacation films (1983–2015).

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Birmingham City Council

Birmingham City Council is the local government body responsible for the governance of the City of Birmingham in England, which has been a metropolitan district since 1974.

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Bob Spiers

Robert Alexander "Bob" Spiers (27 September 1945 – 8 December 2008) was a director.

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Bottom (TV series)

Bottom is a British television sitcom created by Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall that originally aired on BBC2 from 17 September 1991 to 10 April 1995 across three series.

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Brian May

Brian Harold May, (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, astrophysicist, and photographer.

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Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (born February 11, 1936) is an American actor, director, and producer.

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Castle Donington

Castle Donington is a small market town and civil parish in Leicestershire, England.

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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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Christian Slater

Christian Michael Leonard Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and producer.

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Christopher Ryan

Christopher Ryan (born Christopher Papazoglou; 25 January 1950) is an English actor best known for his roles as Mike in the BBC comedy series The Young Ones and Tony Driscoll in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses.

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Churchill: The Hollywood Years

Churchill: The Hollywood Years is a 2004 British film, directed by Peter Richardson.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, and an independent sister organization of the United States-based Comic Relief Inc. It was founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.

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David Stafford (writer)

David Stafford is a writer, broadcaster and occasional musician born 1949 in Birmingham, England.

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Dawn French

Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, writer, comedian and presenter from Holyhead, Wales.

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Def Leppard

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement.

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Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown is a short comedy film made by The Comic Strip for the BBC, first broadcast in the UK in 1993.

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Dexter Fletcher

Dexter Fletcher (born 31 January 1966) is an English actor and director.

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Didn't You Kill My Brother?

"Didn't You Kill My Brother?" is an episode of The Comic Strip Presents..., a British television comedy.

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Doon Mackichan

Sarah-Doon Mackichan (born 7 August 1962) is a British comedian and actress.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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Doug Lucie

Doug Lucie (born 15 December 1953, Chessington, Greater London) is an English dramatist.

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Eat the Rich (film)

Eat the Rich is a 1987 British black comedy film directed by Peter Richardson.

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Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, television presenter, and occasional actor.

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Enid Blyton

Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.

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Executive producer

Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Filthy Rich & Catflap

Filthy Rich & Catflap is a BBC sitcom produced in 1986 and broadcast in 1987.

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Five Go Mad in Dorset

Five Go Mad in Dorset was the first of three Five Go Mad specials from the long-running series of The Comic Strip Presents... television comedy films.

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French and Saunders

French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

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Gary Beadle

Gary Beadle (born 1965) is a British actor, best known for playing Paul Trueman in EastEnders and Gary Barwick in Operation Good Guys.

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GLC: The Carnage Continues...

"GLC: The Carnage Continues" is an episode of the British television comedy series The Comic Strip Presents... broadcast on BBC2 in 1990.

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Gold (UK TV channel)

Gold (stylised as GOLD) is a British classic comedy channel from the UKTV network, broadcasting to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Graham Crowden

Clement Graham Crowden (30 November 1922 – 19 October 2010) was a Scottish actor.

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Harry Enfield

Henry Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director.

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Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom (11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012) was a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939.

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Hugh Cornwell

Hugh Alan Cornwell (born 28 August 1949) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk rock/new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990.

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Ian Emes

Ian Ronald Emes (born 17 August 1949) is a British artist and film director.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Jack Nicholson

John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker who has performed for over sixty years.

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Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and actress.

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Jeremy Isaacs

Sir Jeremy Isaacs (born 28 September 1932) is a Scottish television producer and executive, winner of many BAFTA awards and international Emmy Awards.

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Jim Broadbent

James Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English actor.

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John Sessions

John Gibb Marshall (born 11 January 1953), better known by the stage name John Sessions, is a British actor and comedian.

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Johnny Vegas

Michael Pennington (born 5 September 1970), known professionally as Johnny Vegas, is an English actor and comedian, known for his angry rants, surreal humour, portly figure and high husky voice.

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Julien Temple

Julien Andrew Temple (born 26 November 1952) is an English film, documentary and music video director.

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Kate Bush

Catherine "Kate" Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer.

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Kathy Burke

Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964) is an English actress, comedian, playwright and theatre director.

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Keith Allen (actor)

Keith Howell Charles Allen (born 2 September 1953) is a British actor, comedian, musician, singer-songwriter, artist, author, and television presenter.

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Kevin Allen (actor)

Kevin Allen (born 15 September 1959) is a Welsh actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer.

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Layer Cake (film)

Layer Cake (also occasionally stylised as L4YER CAKƐ) is a 2004 British crime thriller film directed by Matthew Vaughn, in his directorial debut.

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Lemmy

Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy, was an English musician and singer-songwriter who founded and fronted the rock band Motörhead.

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Lenny Henry

Sir Lenworth George Henry, (born 29 August 1958), known as Lenny Henry, is a British stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer, and television presenter, known for co-founding charity Comic Relief, and presenting various television programmes, including the comedy Chef!, and The Magicians for BBC One.

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Leslie Phillips

Leslie Samuel Phillips, (born 20 April 1924) is an English actor who came to prominence in films in the 1950s, acting as a suave charmer with an exaggerated upper class accent, in the style of Terry-Thomas.

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Lionel Jeffries

Lionel Charles Jeffries (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was an English actor, screenwriter and film director.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Marillion

Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979.

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Mark Williams (actor)

Mark Williams (born 22 August 1959) is an English actor, screenwriter and presenter.

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Master of ceremonies

A master of ceremonies, abbreviated M.C. or emcee, also called compère and announcer, is the official host of a ceremony, a staged event or similar performance.

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Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English actress.

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Michael White (producer)

Michael Simon White (16 January 1936 – 7 March 2016) was a British theatrical impresario and film producer.

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Miranda Richardson

Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English stage, film and television actress.

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Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door

Mr.

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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top media services provider, headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

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Neve Campbell

Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian actress.

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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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Nigel Planer

Nigel George Planer (born 22 February 1953) is an English actor, comedian, novelist and playwright who is best known for his role as Neil in the cult BBC comedy The Young Ones and as Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap.

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Nosher Powell

Frederick Powell (15 August 1928 – 20 April 2013), credited as Nosher Powell, Freddie Powell, or Fred Powell, was an English actor, stuntman, and boxer.

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Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (also known as The Prince of Darkness) (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter and actor.

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Paul Bartel

Paul Bartel (August 6, 1938 – May 13, 2000) was an American actor, writer and director.

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Paul Jackson (producer)

Kevin Paul Jackson (born 2 October 1947), credited as Paul Jackson; sometimes as K. Paul Jackson, is a British television director, producer and executive.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Pauline Melville

Pauline Melville (born 1948) is a Guyanese-born writer and actress of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in London, England.

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Pete Richens

Peter "Pete" Richens (born 18 August 1952) Richens is a British screenwriter perhaps best known as the writing partner of Peter Richardson, writer/director/star of the long-running TV series The Comic Strip Presents.

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Peter Capaldi

Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director.

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian.

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Peter Richardson (British director)

Peter Richardson (born 15 October 1951) is an English director, screenwriter, actor, and comedian.

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Phil Cornwell

Philip Cornwell (born 5 October 1957) is an English comedian, actor, impressionist and writer.

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Police

A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, to protect people and property, and to prevent crime and civil disorder.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Richard Vernon

Richard Vernon (7 March 1925 – 4 December 1997) was a British actor.

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Rik Mayall

Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English comedian, actor and writer.

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Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane, OBE (born Anthony Robert McMillan; 30 March 1950) is a Scottish actor and author.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Ron Tarr

Ronald Lawrence Morisco-Tarr, known as Ron Tarr (14 November 1936 – 20 October 1997) was a British television actor who played minor roles in television series and films.

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Ronald Allen

Ronald John Allen (16 December 1930 – 18 June 1991) was an English character actor who became a soap opera star.

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Rose d'Or

The Rose d'Or (Golden Rose) is an international awards festival in entertainment broadcasting and programming.

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Rowland Rivron

Rowland J. Rivron (born 1958) is a British musician, writer, and television presenter.

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Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax, (born Ruby Wachs; 19 April 1953) is an American actress, mental health campaigner, lecturer, and author who holds both American and British citizenship and who has resided in the United Kingdom since the 1970s.

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Russell Tovey

Russell George Tovey (born 14 November 1981) is an English actor He is best known for playing the role of a werewolf, George Sands in the BBC's supernatural drama Being Human. His other notable roles include Rudge in both the stage and film versions of The History Boys, Steve in the BBC Three sitcom Him & Her, Kevin Matheson in the HBO original series Looking and its subsequent series finale television film Looking: The Movie, and as Henry Knight on BBC TV series Sherlock.

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San José (Almeria)

San José is a village and fishing port in the centre of Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata, in the Province of Almería.

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Sandy Johnson (director)

Sandy Johnson is a Scottish director who has directed episodes of The Comic Strip Presents, Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Jonathan Creek and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

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Sara Stockbridge

Sara Stockbridge (born Sarah Jane Stockbridge; 14 November 1965) is an English model, actress and author.

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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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Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England.

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Sheridan Smith

Sheridan Smith, OBE (born 25 June 1981) is an English actress, singer and dancer.

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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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South Atlantic Raiders

South Atlantic Raiders is a two-part 1990 comedy film made for British television as part of The Comic Strip Presents... series and was originally broadcast on BBC 2.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Stella Street

Stella Street is a British television comedy programme, originally screened in four series on BBC Two between 1997 and 2001.

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Stephen Frears

Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film and television director.

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Stephen Mangan

Stephen James Mangan (born 16 May 1968) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge, Sean Lincoln in Episodes and Postman Pat in Postman Pat: The Movie.

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Steven O'Donnell (actor)

Steven O'Donnell (born 19 May 1963 in Leeds) is an English actor.

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Tamer Hassan

Tamer Hassan (born 18 March 1968) is an English actor of Turkish Cypriot descent.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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Television director

A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program, or section of a programme.

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The Bullshitters: Roll Out The Gunbarrel

The Bullshitters: Roll Out The Gunbarrel was a spoof of The Professionals, first broadcast in 1984 on Channel 4.

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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 Famous Five (novel series)

The Famous Five is a series of children's adventure novels written by English author Enid Blyton.

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The Hunt for Tony Blair

The Hunt for Tony Blair is a one-off episode of The Comic Strip Presents..., a British television comedy, which was first shown on Channel 4 on 14 October 2011.

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The New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British sitcom made in the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the United Kingdom's Conservative Party Government of the period.

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The Pope Must Die

The Pope Must Die (U.S. alternate title The Pope Must Diet!) is a 1991 comedy film directed by Peter Richardson and released by Palace Pictures with the backing of Channel 4 Films.

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The Professionals (TV series)

The Professionals is a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mark1 Productions for London Weekend Television (LWT) that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983.

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The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien.

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The Strike

The Strike (also known as Strike!, although this is more properly the title of the fictitious Hollywood movie featured in the episode) is one of the short comedy films – written by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, and directed by Richardson – which made up the long-running Channel 4 television series The Comic Strip Presents....

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The Supergrass

The Supergrass is a 1985 British comedy film written and directed by Peter Richardson.

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The Yob

The Yob is the 21st episode of the British television comedy series The Comic Strip Presents..., written by Keith Allen and Daniel Peacock, with Allen also in the title role, and was directed by Ian Emes.

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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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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Tim McInnerny

Tim McInnerny (born 18 September 1956) is an English actor.

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Totnes

Totnes is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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TV Pixie

TV Pixie was a British website about television programmes founded in 2009.

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Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is a British sitcom that ran from 26 February 2001 to 24 May 2011.

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Vic and Bob

Vic and Bob, also known as Reeves and Mortimer, are a British comedy double act consisting of Vic Reeves (born 24 January 1959, real name James Roderick Moir) and Bob Mortimer (born 23 May 1959).

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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16:9

16:9 (1.7:1) (16:9.

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20th Century Coyote

20th Century Coyote was an English comedy group famous for first uniting Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall.

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References

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

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