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Q... (TV series)

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Q... is a surreal television comedy sketch show written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand, and starring Spike Milligan with a number of supporting players, usually including Julia Breck, John Bluthal, Bob Todd, and John Wells. [1]

40 relations: Alan Clare, Andrew Marshall (screenwriter), BBC, BBC Four, BBC Two, Bob Todd, Chris Langham, Comedy, David Lodge (actor), David Rappaport, David Renwick, Ian MacNaughton, Jeannette Charles, Jews, John Antrobus, John Bluthal, John Cleese, John Wells (satirist), Julia Breck, Keith Smith (actor), Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Linzi Drew, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Neil Shand, Pakistan, Peter Jones (actor), Queen Elizabeth 2, Race (human categorization), Rita Webb, Robert Dorning, Spike Milligan, Stella Tanner, Surreal humour, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, The Goon Show, United Kingdom, Wiping.

Alan Clare

Alan Clare (born Alan Jaycock; 31 May 1921 – 29 November 1993) was a British jazz pianist.

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Andrew Marshall (screenwriter)

Andrew Marshall (b. Lowestoft 27 August 1954) is a British comedy screenwriter, most noted for the domestic sitcom 2point4 children.

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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 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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Bob Todd

Brian Todd (15 December 1921 – 21 October 1992), known professionally as Bob Todd, was an English comedy actor, mostly known for appearing as a straight man in the sketch shows of Benny Hill and Spike Milligan.

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Chris Langham

Christopher Langham (born 14 April 1949) is an English writer, actor, and comedian, who was jailed for possession of child pornography.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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David Lodge (actor)

David William Frederick Lodge (19 August 1921 in Rochester, Kent, England – 18 October 2003 in Northwood, Middlesex, England) was an English character actor.

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David Rappaport

David Stephen Rappaport (23 November 1951 – 2 May 1990) was an English actor with dwarfism.

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David Renwick

David Peter Renwick (born 4 September 1951) is an English television writer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek.

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Ian MacNaughton

Edward Ian Macnaughton (30 December 1925 – 10 December 2002) was a Scottish actor-turned-television producer and director, best known for his work with the Monty Python team.

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Jeannette Charles

Jeannette Charles (15 October 1927–) is a British actress who often portrays Queen Elizabeth II due to her resemblance to the monarch.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John Antrobus

John Antrobus (born 2 July 1933) is an English playwright and script writer.

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John Bluthal

John Bluthal (born 28 March 1929) is a British radio, stage, television and film actor and voice artist, whose work has mostly been in comedy.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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John Wells (satirist)

John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist.

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Julia Breck

Julia Breck (born 22 August 1941) was born in Newport, Isle of Wight.

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Keith Smith (actor)

Keith Wilfred Smith (26 February 1926 – 30 March 2008) was an English actor who is best known to for his roles in The Army Game and The Beiderbecke Trilogy.

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Kuwait Petroleum Corporation

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (مؤسسة البترول الكويتية) is Kuwait's national oil company, headquartered in Kuwait City.

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Linzi Drew

Lindsey Jane Drew (born 11 May 1958), known professionally as Linzi Drew, is an English former glamour model, producer, adult model and pornographic actress.

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Michael Palin

Michael Edward Palin (pronounced; born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter.

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Monty Python

Monty Python (also collectively known as The Pythons) were a British surreal comedy group who created their sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which first aired on the BBC in 1969.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974.

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Neil Shand

Neil Hodgson Shand (3 March 1934 – 14 April 2018) was a British television comedy writer.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Peter Jones (actor)

Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones (12 June 1920 – 10 April 2000) was an English actor, screenwriter and broadcaster.

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Queen Elizabeth 2

The Queen Elizabeth 2, often referred to simply as QE2, is a floating hotel and retired ocean liner built for the Cunard Line which was operated by Cunard as both a transatlantic liner and a cruise ship from 1969 to 2008.

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Race (human categorization)

A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.

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Rita Webb

Rita Webb (born Olive Rita Webb; 25 February 1904 – 30 August 1981), later known as Olive Rita Thompson, was an English character actress, mainly in comedy roles.

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Robert Dorning

Robert Dorning (13 May 1913 – 21 February 1989) was a musician, dance band vocalist, ballet dancer and stage, film and television actor.

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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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Stella Tanner

Stella Tanner (1 January 1925 – 26 March 2012) was an English radio and television actress.

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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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Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

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Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter and film director.

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The Goon Show

The Goon Show was a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Wiping

Wiping, also known as junking, is a colloquial term of art for action taken by radio and television production and broadcasting companies, in which old audiotapes, videotapes, and telerecordings (kinescopes), are erased, reused, or destroyed.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q..._(TV_series)

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