* 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.

The campaigns began with a series of adverts based on the 1986 French film Jean de Florette, directed by the British duo Anthea Benton and Vaughan Arnell, moving on to other genres including war movies, silent comedy and even surrealism.

An Australian psychedelic rock band and an American independent progressive rock band have used the name " Tin Tin ", and British electronic dance music duo Tin Tin Out was similarly inspired by the character.

* British — Beamish, Sally: Commedia ( 1990 ; mixed quintet ; theater piece without actors, in which Pierrot is portrayed by violin ); Biberian, Gilbert: Variations and Fugue on " Au Clair de la Lune " ( 1967 ; wind quartet ), Pierrot: A Ballet ( 1978 ; guitar duo ); Musgrave, Thea, Pierrot ( 1985 ; for clarinet, violin, and piano ; inspired dance by Jennifer Muller above under # Plays, variety shows, circus, and dance | Plays, variety shows, circus, and dance ); Redgate, Roger: Pierrot on the Stage of Desire ( 1998 ; for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion — known as the " Pierrot ensemble ", comprising the instrumentation of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire below ).

Among the most famous early independent producers are the famed songwriting-production duo Leiber & Stoller, " Wall of Sound " creator Phil Spector and British studio pioneer Joe Meek.

British comedy duo Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French often presented short mockumentaries as extended sketches in their TV show French & Saunders.

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

" with Lananeeneenoonoo, a mock girl-group created by British female comedy duo French & Saunders, with fellow comediènne Kathy Burke.

* Sandra and Samantha Lawrence The Wee Papa Girl Rappers were a British female rap duo, who came from Acton & lived in one of the tower blocks next to Acton Police Station, the picture on the back cover of their album was taken out side their block.

The British duo Pet Shop Boys released a song called " Girls Don't Cry " ( a bonus track on U. K. issue of I'm with Stupid ) about Teena in 2006.

* Camera Obscura ( electronic duo ), a British synth pop band, who had a minor hit in 1983 with the Destitution EP

The approach of the show, portraying a pathologist as having an active role in the crime investigation, was parodied by British comedic duo French and Saunders as " Witless Silence ".

* The Dust Brothers was also the original name used by the British duo, The Chemical Brothers.

Conversely, other British acts such as Wang Chung, Breathe and Murray Head, as well as the Anglo-Australian duo Air Supply, are one-hit wonders in the UK but not in the US, and the American group 3T, best known in their homeland as being the three sons of Tito Jackson of The Jackson 5, along with other bands such as Blind Melon and Deep Blue Something, are one-hit wonders in the US but not in the UK.

* British electronica duo Lemon Jelly heavily sampled the opening riffs of " Peaches " played in reverse as well as the lines " Yeah, yeah " and " Millions of peaches / Peaches for me / Millions of peaches / Peaches for free " in their song " The Fruity Track ".

Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, comprising Peter Asher ( b. 1944 ) and Gordon Waller ( 1945-2009 ), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling transatlantic No. 1 smash " A World Without Love ".

The duo had several subsequent hits in the so-called British Invasion-era.

The duo were hugely influential in the evolution of electronic music in the 1990s with Mixmag describing them as " the single most influential production team working in British dance music ".

Spooky is a British house / techno duo consisting of Duncan Forbes and Charlie May.

Ernest Wiseman OBE ( 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999 ), known by his stage name Ernie Wise, was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became an institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials.

Riding a wave of publicity and hype, the group's second single, " Rivers of Joy ", became a top ten hit, while third single, " There Must Be an Angel ", a cover version of the 1985 hit by British pop duo Eurythmics, continued the group's high record sales by topping the charts once again in Austria and Germany.

Yazoo ( also known as Yaz in the United States ) is a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex.

* Nexus 21, a British techno duo formed in 1989 by Mark Archer and Chris Peat

The Communards were a British pop duo active from 1985 to 1988.

Orbital are a British electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, England consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll.

He teamed with Bell to form the group Erasure, and the duo became one of the major selling acts in British music with international hits like " Oh L ' amour ", " Sometimes ", " Chains of Love ", " A Little Respect ", " Chorus ", " Love to Hate You ", " Take a Chance on Me " and " Always ".