Frisky & Mannish is a British musical comedy double act, created and performed by singer Laura Corcoran and pianist-singer Matthew Floyd Jones. Known for their pop music parodies, the duo have toured the fringe festival and comedy festival circuits in the United Kingdom and Australia, and appeared on a number of British television and radio […]
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Tim Vine is an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter known for his one liner jokes, and his role on Not Going Out from 2006 to 2014. He has released a number of DVDs of his stand-up comedy and has written several joke books. In 2010 and 2014, Vine won the award for best joke […]
Coronation Music 1953
As a mark of respect for the passing of Queen Elizabeth I am pausing the comic songs series today to share some of the music that was played at her coronation in 1953. There is an old family story that I was taken by my parents to the coronation. Having been born in November 1952, […]
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The Firm was a British music act, formed by John O’Connor, who was primarily an acoustic guitarist, ran his own recording studio specialising in songwriters’ demos, for some ten years. In the early 1980s, he decided to concentrate more on playing and writing music, working as a session musician with artists in a variety of […]
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Max Boyce, is a Welsh comedian, singer and entertainer. He rose to fame in the mid-1970s with an act that combined musical comedy with his passion for rugby union and his origins in a South Wales mining community. Boyce’s We All Had Doctors’ Papers (1975) remains the only comedy album to have topped the UK […]
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Fred Wedlock was an English folk singer best known for his UK hit single “The Oldest Swinger in Town”, which was covered by German comedian Karl Dall as “Der älteste Popper der Stadt”. He performed at many venues in Britain and Europe, presented programmes for West Country TV and acted with the Bristol Old Vic, […]
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Mike Harding is an English singer, songwriter, comedian, author, poet, broadcaster and multi-instrumentalist. Harding has also been a photographer, traveller, filmmaker and playwright. Harding began performing as a folk singer and as a member of several local Manchester bands in the 1960s, making his first recordings for the Topic label. He began telling jokes between […]
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Instant Sunshine is a comedy musical cabaret group who sing to an acoustic guitar accompaniment. It was formed in 1966 by three doctors at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, Peter Christie, David Barlow and Alan Maryon-Davis. In 1972 they were joined by the journalist and double bass player Miles Kington. In 1998 Kington left the […]
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The Two Ronnies is a British television comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was created by Bill Cotton and aired on BBC1 from April 1971 to December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo sections, serial stories and musical finales. The two Ronnies met in 1963 at the Buckstone Club in […]
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Kit and The Widow were a British double act, performing humorous songs in the vein of Tom Lehrer or Flanders and Swann; they also cite Ana Russell as an influence. Kit Hesketh-Harvey (singer) and Richard Sisson (The Widow, pianist) performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and in West End theatres, and accepted private bookings. They have […]