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	British comedy Summary
		British Comedy, in film, radio and television, is known for its consistently quirky characters, plots and settings, and has produced some of the most famous and memorable comic actors and characters in the last fifty years.
		British comedy films are legendary, but among the most notable are the Ealing comedies, the 1950s satires of the Boulting Brothers, and innumerable popular comedy series including the St Trinian's films, the "Doctor" series, and the long-running Carry On films.
		As the traditional British situation comedy is produced by just one or two writers its comedy is often of a less exuberant nature than situation comedies produced in other countries.
	www.bookrags.com /British_comedy (1847 words)

	British Films - The Revival of a Genre
		The British ‘Romantic Comedies’ seem to be especially popular lately with their actors and actresses shooting to fame in both the UK and the US and making a huge impact on the acting scene in general.
		The British accent is also one of the top rated accents that appeal to both men and women in the USA so this too could be a factor.
		The British fashion scene also plays a part in the success of certain films, the costume designs and the set designs are usually made by British designers and this really shows in the end effect.
	www.elitemoviedownloads.com /articles/british_films.asp (542 words)

	immediacy: The Gun Seller
		I was trying to be pithy when I said to Jill that the difference between English and American comedians is that the English ones write their own material, for books by comedians are becoming quite common on both sides of the Atlantic.
		British comedians typically begin in the comedy glee club of their universities (I believe it's the Cambridge "Footlights", or is that Oxford?
		The British, thus, tend to be grounded in the literature of humor, rather than just the anecdotal type so favored by the Americans.
	www.engel-cox.org /text/the_gun_seller.html (561 words)

	Hill, Benny
		Yet Hill was also the most traditional of comedians and his programs had strong roots in variety theatre, revolving around comic songs, routines and sketches rather than an on-going comic characterisation and situation.
		Other British comedians such as Ken Dodd, Charlie Drake and Frankie Howard were also to gain their own shows around the same time but none had the comic genius and stamina of Hill.
		The statement implied that he was not recognised as a great comedian and was belied by the enormous international popularity of his program and by the fact that in the 1970s and 1980s he was several times voted the Funniest Man in the World by the British television audience.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/hillbenny/hillbenny.htm (795 words)

	ipedia.com: Comedy Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alternative comedy - a largely British term relating to comedians in the ascendant throughout the 1980s and beyond.
		Improvisational comedy - though not confined to stand-up, it is commonly held in high regard on the stand-up circuit.
		British comedy - article on British comedy and a list of British comedy programmes.
	www.ipedia.com /comedy.html (322 words)

	Cruel Britannia - smh.com.au
		While contemporary British comedies enjoy a dash of the surrealism that inspired their predecessors, the attitude is crucially different.
		British comedy has a history of revolutions - from the Goons, to the Fringe and Python crews, to the left-leaning Comic Strip Presents during the Thatcher years.
		Over the past decade, British TV comedy has been dominated by a core group of writers, directors, producers and actors.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/04/14/1018333454543.html (1158 words)

	Comedian Victoria, BC, British Columbia Comedians, Victoria Comedians
		Professional comedians in Victoria and throughout British Columbia may need to be booked several months in advance.
		Some stand up comedians perform comedy shows which may or may not be appropriate for your audience.
		Flyin' Bob is a professional physical comedian who has brought his own brand of insanity to the unsuspecting citizens of 15 countries around the world.
	www.gigmasters.com /Comedian/Comedian_Victoria_BC.asp (902 words)

	Comedian Charlie Williams dies - Attitude: The Latest Celebrity News - The Hollywood News
		One of the great British comedians, Charlie Williams, has died.
		Williams, who was one of the first top British fl comedians died at the age of 78.
		Williams was a regular act on the TV show 'The Comedians' who went on to host the classic show 'The Golden Shot', taking over from Bob Monkhouse.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /article/04090604.php (152 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There were the old musical comedians, the British equivalent of vaudeville, but not so many of the satirical observers in the Lenny Bruce/Mort Sahl/George Carlin tradition.
		Martin Lewis: British humor is an equal opportunity offender, but in broad terms, you could say that British comedy tends to be like certain rock bands, for example the Who, who just naturally have a larger male constituency.
		It's just a shame that so many British and American troops (that is the so-called "coalition" if you exclude the Albanians) have lost their lives over such incompetence.
	www.usatoday.com /community/chat_03/2003-07-18-lewis.htm (1607 words)

	Eddie Izzard - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Image:Sexy.jpg Eddie Izzard (born February 7, 1962 as Edward John Izzard) is a British stand-up comedian and actor.
		After the British leg of the tour, he took "Definite Article" to major cities outside the UK including a successful stint in New York City.
		In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, Izzard was voted amongst the top 20 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Eddie_Izzard (894 words)

	Project two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Monty Python, however, are not the only British comedians to take the U.S. by storm.
		Eddie is a British stand up comedian who ranks up on the American boards as one of the funniest comedians of all time.
		However, before Eddie ever came to America, there was another British comedian to open the market for many more to come.
	www.louisville.edu /~acmudd03/eng3.html (214 words)

	The Benny Hill Show
		However, what most audiences outside of the United Kingdom know as The Benny Hill Show, was in fact a compilation series of 111 half-hour episodes, composed of sketches and numbers drawn from his British ITV series produced over a 20 year period from 1969 to 1989, and syndicated on American television from 1979 onwards.
		Some of the BBC shows are fondly remembered for his many inspired and usually hilarious impersonations of such icons of British television such as Hughie Green (of the talent series Opportunity Knocks) and Alan Wicker of the travel/foreign correspondent series Wicker's World.
		The Thames series was quintessential Benny with the cherubic/budgy Hill dominating sketches, slapstick routines and silent film type pantomimes of comedy and sight gags.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/bennyhillsh/bennyhillsh.htm (536 words)

	Project Two
		To prove my theory that British comedians are more popular in America than American ones, I decided to do a survey.
		Thus, British comedy started to take the lead as the most popular form of comedy in America.
		British comedy is very popular, and according to a number of reputable sources, it is preferred over the domestic kind.
	www.louisville.edu /~acmudd03/eng5.html (640 words)

	And So It Goes
		British Prime Minister Tony Blair, accompanied by his wife Cherie, waves to Japanese people as he leaves a pizza restaurant after chatting with a Japanese family in the fashionable district of Harajuku in Tokyo, July 19, 2003.
		Partly, I suppose, it's to show the flag, as it were, regarding British business, since the place he went to (Pizza Express) is in fact part of a British pizza chain.
		(seen in the US on the Comedy Central cable channel) featuring imported British comedians (though fans of the show may remember that most of the performers on the show seemed to have been imported from North America, but never mind).
	blogs.salon.com /0001306/2003/07/20.html (297 words)

	Feature: You must be joking
		Comedians such as Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean, Blackadder) have voiced concern that this law would curb their freedom of derision.
		All of which shows that though the British government has a history of getting confused by irony and issues of religion and civil liberties, they always get the bad guy in the end.
		SO BRITISH COMEDIANS like Rowan Atkinson, who fear that a law against inciting religious hatred would limit their freedom to quip, should stop worrying.
	www.shipoffools.com /Cargo/Features01/Features/Joking.html (859 words)

	Comedian Vancouver, BC, British Columbia Comedians, Vancouver Comedians
		Comedian Vancouver, BC, British Columbia Comedians, Vancouver Comedians
		Professional comedians in Vancouver and throughout British Columbia may need to be booked several months in advance.
		Here are the online press kits of 147 professional Vancouver comedians and comedians who will travel to Vancouver to perform at your event.
	www.gigmasters.com /Comedian/Comedian_Vancouver_BC.asp (902 words)

	Will Hay - The films, movies, cinema, biography of British movie actor,Will Hay
		With his supercilious sniff and overall air of pompous ineptitude, Will Hay was one of the great British character comedians of his time.
		In whatever circumstances, he was always required to deceive both superiors and inferiors, the latter proving sharper at detecting the radical incompetence beneath his seedy dignity.
		In 1931, Will was elected King Rat of the Grand Order of Water Rats, which gave him great pride and a opportunity to acquaint himself better with like-minded fellow artistes within the exclusiveness of the club.
	www.britishcinemagreats.com /Actors_page/will_hay/will_hay_page_1.htm (412 words)

	S2 Sunday Express magazine April 25, 2004 page 8-13
		There is a new wave of British comedians coming to America with the same glint in their eyes and the same eternal motto imprinted in their minds: “I’ll take Manhattan.”
		Comedians like Eddie have a magnetic charm that’s lacking in a lot of American stand-ups who have this very hard veneer.
		Steve Pemberton of the League of Gentleman argues that British comedians in America should trade on their difference.
	www.auntiemomo.com /cakeordeath/dylan.html (2604 words)

	Comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One-Liner - a type of standup comedy where the comedian will tell many jokes that are one or two sentences long.
		Vaudeville - comedy performed in theatres that declined as television ownership increased.
		British comedy - article on British comedy and a list of British comedy programs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comedy (1210 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Film, TV & Theatre > Channel 4 enflame my PC gland???
		I thought the Heros of Comedy (white version) was more based on older British comedians like Spike, Tommy Cooper etc. and as far as I know and I may be mistaken there aren't many famous fl British Comedians from years gone by?
		Most fl comedians draw on the social implications of their race and comment on it.
		while the hero's of fl comedy was more about fl comedians who broke the mold, ie sammy davis junior, was the first mainstream fl comedian on tv, richard pryor, had huge crossover apeal, and was the first comedian to be given his own film production company.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/4020 (583 words)

	Two Documentaries from BBC Video - Reviews by David Nusair
		And though there isn't much new information to be gleaned from the film, Molloy does include random bits of interesting trivia here and there (including the fascinating revelation that there were almost 5000 planes in the air at the time of the crisis, all of which had to be grounded immediately).
		As the title suggests, The Funny Blokes of British Comedy profiles about a dozen British comedians who've found success on sitcoms (including John Cleese, Geoffrey Palmer, and John Inman).
		Because the majority of the performers profiled in The Funny Blokes of British Comedy are sure to come off as total strangers to most North Americans, there's little doubt that the film will have a much more positive effect on British viewers.
	www.reelfilm.com /bbcdoc1.htm (280 words)

	British Comedians
		After doing a quick bit of research on Google, and http://en.wikipedia.org I realised that there was a huge range of comedians out there, and they would be worth a site all of there own.
		well, he is the very opposite of the best that I have put in, but he is a 'modern' comedian, Roy 'Chubby' Brown, and this is the reason that I made this site in the first place, so that the real funny men and women do not get forgotten.
		I have had a lot of fun remembering some of the past comedians, and they have given me a lot of pleasure over the years.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /s.burns (684 words)

	comedians - Ask.com Web Search
		Stand up comedians' index with the world's funniest stand-up comedians and comedy performers.
		Detroit, Michigan based comedian offers show dates, pictures, biography, road diary and fan club.
		A comedian is one who entertains through comedy, such as jokes and other forms of...
	search.ask.com /web?q=comedians (273 words)

	Daily Llama - NEWS 2005_01_01 - John Cleese Makes List of All-Time Funniest British Comedians
		The newswires are saying today that John Cleese has made the list of the all-time British King or Queen of Comedy, in a poll conducted by the UK branch of food company McCain.
		Jane White, of McCain, said: “We wanted to find out who was the all-time British King or Queen of Comedy to launch our support for Red Nose Day 2005 and clearly Tommy Cooper was the nation's favourite laughter- maker.
		The poll of 4,400 people was conducted by McCain to publicise their sponsorship of Red Nose Day 2005 and Comic Relief, the charity founded by comedians to fight poverty.
	www.dailyllama.com /news/2005/llama269.html (218 words)

	Nigel Charnock - Nagy Britmánia - British Council Hungary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bean have become famous and celebrated across the world, they remain forever British; as British as five o’clock tea and Big Ben.
		It is therefore no small achievement that Nigel Charnock, despite having trained as a dancer, can stand alongside the best of British comedians.
		Finding the bounds of British dance too narrow, Charnock has worked with groups from all over the world, including the Pet Shop Boys, whose tours he has choreographed.
	www.britishcouncil.org /hungary-arts-nagy-britmania-nigel-charnock.htm (187 words)

	comedia: which country has the best comedia? - SPSW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I find these two movies the funniest out of the rest I have seen, Monty Python and Chickenrun, both are primary British films.
		Most of the comedians on that show were North American anyways.
		Whose Line (they had plenty of British comedians on there including the sublime Tony Slattery...so what if it was run-of-the-mill improv)
	www.someplacesomewhere.com /index.php?showtopic=1271 (497 words)

	The Kerry Spot on National Review Online
		Everyone said it was a great opportunity to try to understand the world but it was used by the US as a reason to go on a rampaging adventure in Afghanistan and Iraq.
		I realize these two are comedians, not foreign policy analysts, but still...
		is the British left so heartless and mean-spirited that they see the elections in Afghanistan as an unfortunate development?
	www.nationalreview.com /kerry/kerry200501041328.asp (187 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Tommy Cooper 'funniest Briton'
		Comedian Tommy Cooper has topped a poll of the funniest Britons of all time, according to Reader's Digest magazine.
		Phoenix Nights star Peter Kay came second and Billy Connolly third in the poll of nearly 2,000 people.
		"Comedy fashions come and go but as far as the British public is concerned you obviously can't beat Tommy Cooper's classic one-liners," said a magazine spokesman.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3596628.stm (234 words)

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