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 […]
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Fascinating Aïda is a British comedy singing group and satirical cabaret act which was founded in March 1983 by Dillie Keane, along with Marilyn Cutts and Lizzie Richardson. The members have varied frequently, but the central two have been Adele Anderson – who joined the group in 1984 – and Keane. The trio started performing […]
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Victoria Wood was an English comedian, actress, lyricist, singer, composer, pianist, screenwriter, producer and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions which she performed at the piano. Much of her humour was grounded in […]
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Today our comedic journey arrives at the 1980’s. We begin with a selection of songs from invidual artists whose recordings found there way into popular culture. “Bucket Of Water Song” is the best-known number (and also their highest-charting single) by the The Four Bucketeers. They were an ad-hoc music/water-throwing group from the ITV children’s programme […]
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Billy Connolly is a Scottish actor, retired comedian, artist, writer, musician, and presenter. He is sometimes known, especially in his homeland, by the Scots nickname the Big Yin (“the Big One”). Known for his idiosyncratic and often improvised observational comedy, frequently including strong language, Connolly has topped many UK polls as the greatest stand-up comedian […]