Love was also romantically linked to British comedian Steve Coogan in the mid-2000s.

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest ( born February 5, 1948 ), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British and American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian.

* 1921 – Bob Todd, British comedian ( d. 1992 )

* 1982 – Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor ( b. 1933 )

* 1944 – Barry Chuckle, British comedian

* 1968 – Joe Cornish, British comedian

* 1953 – Jim Davidson, British comedian

* 1970 – Simon Pegg, British comedian and actor

* 1933 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

* 1940 – Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian

* 1962 – Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian

* 1920 – Frank Muir, British comedian ( d. 1998 )

* 1980 – Mark Watson, British comedian

* 1931 – Les Dawson, British comedian ( d. 1993 )

* 1922 – Michael Bentine, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

* 1967 – Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster

* 1941 – Graham Chapman, British comedian ( d. 1989 )

* 1964 – Bill Bailey, British comedian

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.

* 1970 – Alexander Armstrong, British comedian, actor and TV presenter

* 1966 – Alan Davies, British comedian and actor

* 1979 – Rufus Hound, British comedian

Michael Bentine CBE ( 26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996 ) was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons.

* 1974 – Stephen Merchant, British comedian

* 1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian

Each of the four members of the group appeared briefly in cameo roles, as did, amongst others, Cher and British comedian Rik Mayall.

Ryan was the only Young Ones cast member who was not already well known in British comedy circles ; he was a last-minute replacement for Peter Richardson, for whom the role of " straight man " Mike was originally intended along with The Comic Strip members Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle.

However, other British acts such as The Two Ronnies, Hale and Pace, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, Reeves and Mortimer, French and Saunders, Mitchell and Webb, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, Fry and Laurie, Lee and Herring, Armstrong and Miller, Peacock and Gamble, the role of " comic " and " straight man " are less obvious, largely interchangeable or dispensed with altogether.

Guest House Paradiso is a 1999 British slapstick dark comedy written by and starring comic duo Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and directed by Edmondson-his directorial debut for a feature film.

Believe Nothing ( 2002 ) is a British sitcom starring Rik Mayall as Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut, the cleverest man in England and Oxford's leading moral philosopher.

Play proceeds in a turn-based fashion, with 3D graphics, vehicles, a career-based single-player mode, and voice-over work ( both narration and for characters ) by British comedian Rik Mayall.

* Christopher Hjort Strange Brew: Eric Clapton and the British Blues Boom, 1965-1970, foreword by John Mayall, Jawbone, 2007.

Mayall was the star of The New Statesman ( 1987 – 92 ), a series created by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, whose biggest success, Birds of a Feather ( 1989 – 98 ), also deviated from British practice in being scripted by a team of writers.

In 2005 Mayall was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in the Honours List.

This new band was markedly different from previous Mayall projects, and its making is well documented both on the 1999 double CD The Masters and on the 2004 DVD The Godfather of British Blues: The Turning Point.

Mayall had exhausted his catalytic role on the British blues-rock scene and was living in L. A.

* Christopher Hjort, Strange brew: Eric Clapton and the British blues boom, 1965-1970, foreword by John Mayall, Jawbone 2007, ISBN 1-906002-00-2

* John Mayall ( born in Macclesfield, 1933 )-the father of British Blues and a notable Blues bandleader

Hackett also has cited numerous British blues artists as influences, namely Danny Kirwan, Peter Green, and various guitarists in John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers .< ref name =" alt ">

* Christopher Hjort Strange brew: Eric Clapton and the British blues boom, 1965-1970, foreword by John Mayall, Jawbone ( 2007 ) ISBN 1-906002002

The musicians in those bands had honed their skills in a handful of British blues bands, primarily those of John Mayall and Alexis Korner.

* Christopher Hjort, Strange brew: Eric Clapton and the British blues boom, 1965 – 1970, foreword by John Mayall, Jawbone 2007, ISBN 1-906002-00-2