British comedy and humour British comedy and humour 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. ...more on Wikipedia about "British comedy"
British humour has a reputation for being puzzling to non-British speakers of English. Nonetheless, many UK comedy TV shows which use it as a basis have been internationally popular. ...more on Wikipedia about "British humour"
Colemanballs is a term used to describe a variety of types of gaffes perpetrated by media commentators. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colemanballs"
The Royal Comedy Theatre, as it was then known, opened in London's West End on October 15, 1881. It was designed by Thomas Verity and built in just six months. By 1884 it was known as just the Comedy Theatre. In the mid- 1950s the theatre went under major reconstruction and re-opened in December 1955. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comedy Theatre"
Donald Fraser Gould McGill, ( January 28 1875 – October 13 1962) was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with a whole genre of smutty postcards that were sold mostly in small shops in British seaside towns. The cards feature an array of attractive young women, fat old ladies, drunken middle aged men, honeymoon couples and vicars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Donald McGill"
Dumb Britain is a regular item in the fortnightly British satirical magazine, Private Eye, which depends upon material sent in by readers (see also Colemanballs). It documents the worst (and funniest) answers given by quiz-show contestants. As well as British quiz shows, other nations' worst answers are also occasionally featured, under the headings Dumb America, Dumb New Zealand, etc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dumb Britain"
The duo "Flanders and Swann" was composed of British actor and singer Michael Flanders ( 1922– 1975) and composer and linguist Donald Swann ( 1923– 1994) who joined forces to write and perform comic songs in the two-man revues At The Drop Of A Hat and At The Drop Of Another Hat. ...more on Wikipedia about "Flanders and Swann"
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Monty Python, or The Pythons, were the creators and stars of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy series which first aired on October 5, 1969 with the episode Whither Canada?. As a television series it consisted of 45 episodes over 4 seasons. However, the Python phenomenon was much greater, spawning stage tours, four films, numerous audio recordings, several computer games and books, as well as launching the members to individual stardom. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monty Python"
Rude Britain (subtitled 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain) is a 2005 book of humour and toponymy. The book (ISBN 0752225812) is written by Rob Bailey and Ed Hurst, and published in the United Kingdom by the Pan Macmillan imprint Boxtree. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rude Britain"
The Goon Show was a hugely popular and extremely influential British radio comedy programme, which was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Goon Show"
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