* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

( Howerd went on to star in Up Pompeii !, a 1969 British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii, as the slave Lurcio, whose character was based on Pseudolus.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including Dad's Army and On the Buses.

* List of British comedy films

* Cyril " Blakey " Blake, the bus depot inspector from the 1970s British comedy TV series On the Buses

Clive Anderson ( born 10 December 1952 ) is a British former barrister, best known for being a comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom.

Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began his success during his 15-year law career with comedy and comedic script writing, before starring in Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Déjà Vu was the third episode of the second season of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British comedy program.

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell.

Category: British romantic comedy films

The 1978 British comedy film The Rutles was done in the style of rock documentary which treated the fake band The Rutles as if they were a real band.

There, Chapman displayed a gift for deadpan comedy ( particularly evident in the sketch " The Minister Who Falls to Pieces ") and for imitating various British dialects.

* Hardcore ( 1977 film ), a British comedy film

* Imhotep features in the British comedy television series Look Around You.

* Graham Chapman ( as " Ron Vibbentrop ") in the 1970 British television comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Naked Ant

* K-9 ( TV series ) a British / Australian comedy / adventure series starring the same character as featured in Doctor Who as listed above.

Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team.

Life of Brian has regularly been cited as a serious contender for the title " greatest comedy film of all time ", and has been named as such in polls conducted by Total Film magazine in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006 and The Guardian newspaper in 2007.

Lemmy also took part in a comedy skit titled " The Easy Guitar Book Sketch " with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow British musicians Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Mark King from Level 42, and Gary Moore.

Category: British comedy troupes

Category: British television comedy

The " Dead Parrot Sketch ", alternatively and originally known as the " Pet Shop Sketch " or " Parrot Sketch ", is a popular sketch or one act from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and one of the most famous in the history of British television comedy.

* G4 ( band ), a British vocal troupe

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

It is believed that the first person to say " shit " on British TV was John Cleese of the Monty Python comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says in his eulogy for Graham Chapman.

* British — Gordon, Harry: Scottish entertainer ( 1893 – 1957 )— formed a Pierrot troupe in 1909 that played both in theaters and at seaside piers in the northeast of Scotland.

* British — Ashton, Helen: Pierrot in Town ( 1913 ); Barrington, Pamela: White Pierrot ( 1932 ); Callaghan, Stella: " Pierrot and the Black Cat " ( 1921 ), Pierrot of the World ( 1923 ); Deakin, Dorothea: The Poet and the Pierrot ( 1905 ); Herring, Paul: The Pierrots on the Pier: A Holiday Entertainment ( 1914 ); Priestley, J. B .: The Good Companions ( 1929 ; plot follows fortunes of a Pierrot troupe, The Dinky Doos ; has had many adaptations, for stage, screen, TV, and radio ).

Pan's People were a British TV dance troupe, who are usually associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops.

* The troupe were given one of the top accolades on British TV in 1975 when they were asked to perform alongside Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise on their BBC1 Christmas Day TV Show, one of the most popular TV shows in the UK.

The British comedy troupe Monty Python's use of the melody is ironic ; the bouncy melody of the march may be what the troupe found appealing.

Hot Gossip ( 1974 – 1986 ) were a British dance troupe who made television appearances and in 1978 released the hit record " I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper ".

* Pan's People, a British dance troupe on Top of the pops

The English genre had been successfully staged in New York from the 1840s, and it was popularised by a visiting British burlesque troupe, Lydia Thompson and the " British Blondes ", beginning in 1868.

The standing sets of the film were later used by the British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus for their religious satire The Life of Brian ( 1979 ).

* The Hollow Men ( comedy troupe ), a British comedy troupe

Abbott said the greatest influences on his style of comedy were Dave Broadfoot and the British comedy troupe Monty Python.

On August 5, 1906 the team of the Kraków-based Jan Sobieski Gymnasium played a match against the British and American members of Buffalo Bill's troupe, winning 1: 0.

Thompson's troupe, called the " British Blondes ", was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868 – 1869 theatrical season.

He drifted through a series of jobs before becoming a Butlins Redcoat at Skegness in a troupe that also included the British jazz trumpeter and writer John Chilton, and hosting pop music shows.

* Flick Colby ( 1946-2011 ), dancer in the British troupe Pan's People

A troupe of street theatre performers by the beach in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus employs a version in the sketch " Ypres 1914 ", where the " Major " character attempts to count-out the platoon member who must choose suicide.

At one point, Lord Sholto Douglas, a British peer leading a troupe of actors in Marysville, was so downheartened by the lack of ticket sales that he had determined to leave town.