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Robert Ross

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4 years

It’s the last journey for #EddieLarge today. From 1:30pm, Eddie’s family would love anyone on the route from his home on High Street, Portishead, to the South Bristol Crematorium, to wave him off. For the rest of us #comedy faithful, can I suggest a large glass & a rousing cheer.

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7th March: is #RikMayall Day! The utterly, utterly brilliant Dr. The Rik Mayall was born Richard Michael Mayall, in Harlow, on this day in 1958. The fact he isn't around being 63 and absolutely bloody fantastic is, frankly, not on. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #RikMayall #Comedy

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2 years

From mid-day today, it’s the final curtain call for Bernard Joseph Cribbins OBE - quite simply one of life’s true gentlemen… and gentle men. 💕🎭 #BernardCribbins #Actor #StoryTeller #ComicGenius #ComedyHistorian

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3 years

24th May: A very Happy 95th Birthday to #ComicGenius Stanley Baxter. Born, in Glasgow, on this day in 1926. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #StanleyBaxter

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6 years

Happy Birthday Roy Hudd: Custodian of the nation's Music Hall, comedy's friend, & 1 of the nicest blokes in the biz.

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2 years

Morning, chums! The sun is shining, and dear old John Inman would have celebrated his 87th. birthday today. Reasons enough to crack open the bubbles for a glass or two of Buck’s Fizz! Cheers. #JohnInman #Birthday #ComedyHistorian #BBC100 #SitCom #BucksFizz #Sunshine #Comedy

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4 years

I think #StanLaurel , delightedly clutching his honorary Oscar in 1961, is a photograph I’ve tweeted more than any other. The gentle man was born 130 years ago today, and this picture has the power of giving you instant happiness. You are more than welcome. 🤡🎬 #ComedyHistorian

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2 years

29th December: It’s Bernard Cribbins Day! The happiest of birthdays to Living Legend and National Treasure #BernardCribbins obe - one of the greatest in the business; and the nicest. Three Cheers! #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #Comedy #ComicGenius #BritishFilm #Theatre

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2 years

A few words about #BarryCryer from the #ComedyHistorian Facebook page. #CelebrateBaz

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4 years

A photograph to gladden the heart. Graeme, Bill & Tim: 26th January 2020. Super Chaps Three @SlapstickFest #TheGoodies #TimBrookeTaylor

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2 years

It’s #SidJames Day. The great Sidney was born on this day in 1913. No other actor has given me so much joy. What a legacy of warmth & #laughter . Here he is, in Brighton, during the making of #CarryOn Girls, in the spring of 1973. #ComicGenius #ComedyHistorian #BritishFilm #Comedy

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7 years

Farewell to the achingly cool Sir Roger Moore, a gentleman of boundless style and compassion.

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4 years

So very proud of my dear chum and regular colleague, Tony Slattery. It’s been a long and winding road, and for me just two years of shows and laughter and friendship. Please spread the word about this important @sundog_pictures @ItsTonySlattery @BBCTwo Horizon documentary.

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4 years

Devastated to hear that the peerless Roy Hudd has gone. A gentle man of unfailing warmth, kindness, and enthusiasm. His passion for music hall and variety turns was only matched by his exhaustive knowledge. The world of comedy will forever salute him as a beloved titan.

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3 years

9th January: Peter Edward Cook died, in Hampstead, on this day in 1995. He was 57. Beyond mercurial... #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #PeterCook #Comedy

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2 years

The final series of #BlessThisHouse earned this gorgeous TV Times cover. The very last episode, Some Enchanted Evening, transmitted Thursday, 22nd April, 1976. #SidJames was touring in The Mating Season. On Monday, 26th April he opened at the Sunderland Empire… #ComedyHistorian

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6 years

Sad to hear that actor Howard Lew Lewis has died: best loved as Elmo in Brush Strokes, and Rabies in Maid Marian...

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3 years

23rd February: #StanLaurel , arguably the greatest of them all, died on this day in 1965. Sprinkling a little joy on your timeline via Stan with his honorary Oscar, in 1961. There's different shots on my #ComedyHistorian Instagram & Facebook. 😜 #DailyComedy #Comedy #LaurelAndHardy

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5 years

@MissLusyd @emmettfurrow @beatengenx @booketybook @MikeSegalov Thanks, Christie. Really hope you enjoy it. It was a labour of love... 8-) x

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2 years

11th January: Michael Bates died, at the age of 57, on this day in 1978: just five weeks after his last appearance as Rangi Ram in It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. You can read all about this most punctilious of actors in #ForgottenHeroesOfComedy #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #Comedy

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2 years

#BarryCryer #CelebrateBaz

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1 year

It’s the birthday weekend of #RichardBriers & I’m proud to be presenting a celebration of the much-loved & much-missed actor on Sunday, 19th February @lsqtheatre , with @lucyjbriers , Susan Hampshire & Alastair Mackenzie, @PeterEgan6 , @GylesB1 & @JamesAHogg2

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7 years

Richard Beckinsale would have turned 70 today. So many imperishable performances in a prematurely curtailed career.

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3 years

11th January: Richard O'Sullivan and Tessa Wyatt starred in SitCom spin-off Robin's Nest, first broadcast on this day in 1977. @TalkingPicsTV is currently screening the series, at 10am every week day. Enjoy. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #RobinsNest #Comedy

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7 years

Backstage @grandoperayork on Saturday with three of my very favourite people, for @YorkLitFest What a perfect day.

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7 years

It's Michael Palin's birthday, so here's a snap from our very jolly @YorkLitFest day. @Markgatiss @_RebeccaVaughan

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2 years

Morecambe, 23rd July 1999, and #HerMajesty #TheQueen is delighted to unveil the statue of one of her favourite #comedians #EricMorecambe , on the Morecambe Promenade. #ComicGenius #Statue #Morecambe #Lancashire #ComedyHistorian #BBC100

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4 years

Hello, I must be going! #Groucho died 43 years ago today. Quite possibly the greatest comedian of them all...

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2 years

5th January: It’s sixty years ago today since the first broadcast of Alan Simpson & Ray Galton’s #Comedy Playhouse: ‘The Offer’. Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell starred as son and father rag ‘n’ bone men Harold & Albert Steptoe. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #SteptoeAndSon

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4 years

Hello! My dear chum #LesliePhillips turns 96 today. I say! A legend of #BritishFilm #Stage #Radio and #Television for over seventy years. A smashing chap too. Of course. #DingDong

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6 years

I'm still in a bit of a whirl following Liz's death on Thursday, but I was honoured to be asked to write her obituary for ⁦ @guardian ⁩ ⁦ @guardianfilm ⁩ Here's the on-line version. It should be in tomorrow's paper. OKay, Lizzle? x 😘 x #LizFraser

Liz Fraser obituary

Stage and screen actor best known for her roles in the Carry On films and as Cynthia Kite in the 1959 classic I’m All Right Jack

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Ross

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6 years

Denis Norden CBE 6 Feb. 1922 - 19 Sept. 2018 One of the key architects of comedy. It's no underestimation that great swathes of what has made us laugh over the last 70 years would have been vastly different without him. A long, kind, lifetime of laughter. That's quite the legacy.

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3 years

27th October: Remembering the indefatigable, totally unique and utterly wonderful Charles Hawtrey who died, in Dover, Kent, on this day in 1988. He was 73. Forever funny. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #CharlesHawtrey #Comedy #ComicGenius #BritishFilm #CarryOn #Theatre #Television

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6 years

Well that was quite the emotional Oh, What a Carry On! ⁦ @Lhdtheatre ⁩ this evening. Thanks for all your lovely messages. We had our moments over 30 years of friendship, of course, but I'll miss her with all my heart. Love you, Lizzle. x #LizFraser

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9 years

I'll just leave this fabulously incendiary photo of Oliver Reed & Diana Rigg here. It'll burn a hole in the 'net. http://t.co/kwZydzqu0p

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Robert Ross

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2 years

It’s 40 years ago since Harry H. Corbett died, at the age of just 57. The BBC screened Steptoe and Son: ‘Divided We Stand’. A fitting tribute to an actor whose legacy of laughter lingers long… #ComedyHistorian #Comedy #Actor #HarryHCorbett #SitCom #Television #Theatre

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4 years

It’s international #TimBrookeTaylor day - well, it should be! In honour of what would have been the great man’s 80th. birthday. Remembered with huge affection and a tsunami of joy. Always. #TBT #NewProfilePic 🤡💚

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4 months

In a career that ranged from Carry On & Ray Cooney to Edward Albee & EastEnders, #IanLavender was philosophical about the eternal appeal of #DadsArmy : “I am glad to be remembered for it. I have never understood why actors say, 'It's not the only thing I've done.'" Bless him. 💕

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1 year

Such a thrill to reunite Dame Penelope Wilton and @PeterEgan6 for our @lsqtheatre celebration of the much-missed #RichardBriers yesterday. National Treasures *and* Throughly Good People. Photo by @lucyjbriers #ComedyHistorian #Comedy #Live #Theatre #Television #DowntownAbbey

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2 years

Proud to present the #SidJames Comedy Icon Tease Trailer, which premieres on @channel5_tv from 8pm tomorrow. Lots of lovely commentators including Robert & some *very* rare clips, notably the "lost" film Tokoloshe. Enjoy & do spread the word! @sidjamesplace @BritishComedy

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6 years

Remembering the comedic prowess & sheer coolness of #BobMonkhouse on his 90th. Much loved, much missed. @NPGLondon

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2 years

We’ve had a wonderful afternoon playing this random but fantastic board game. Is it a safe bet to assume no one else has passed the time playing this, this afternoon? Have you got it? Let us know & we’ll get a tournament going 🤪 #CarryOn #ComedyHistorian #boardgames #ionlyasked

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4 years

2nd December: #ComicGenius Marty Feldman died on this day in 1982. One of the greatest comedy minds of the 20th century. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #Facebook #MartyFeldman 🤪🍻🎬

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4 years

Although as Graeme once told me: “we never consciously made a last episode, we never consciously broke up...”, I have a bulging file of Goodies ‘reunion’ photographs. This joyously raucous one is perfect for Talented Timbo’s birthday. Raise the roof! 🤡🤡🤡 #TimBrookeTaylor 80

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Robert Ross

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3 years

First out of the box of my @unbounders author’s copies of Forgotten Heroes of Comedy now in the hands of Barry Cryer. Without whom… I’m signing loads this weekend, so for you lovelies who have pre-ordered, do warn your postman that something very heavy is on its way, and enjoy!

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8 months

Love and admiration to @JamesAHogg2 and everybody involved in putting together this simply perfect tribute to a much missed gentleman and gentle man. It was a truly joyous celebration. Salute #BernardCribbins

James Hogg 🖋

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8 months

1/3 Earlier today we paid tribute to our dear friend, Bernard Cribbins, at St. Paul's, Covent Garden. And what a joyous affair it was! Jenny Agguter delivered a beautiful tribute, reading from an introductory letter that Bernard wrote to the BBC in 1955,

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3 years

24th February: Peerless Betty Marsden was born, in West Derby, Liverpool, on this day in 1919. Here, with Terry Scott, during the freezing cold Autumn 1968 shot for Carry On Camping. Rehearsal: coats on. Take One: coats off! #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #BettyMarsden #CarryOn

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3 years

7th August: Remembering the life-affirming #ComicGenius of Oliver Hardy, who died on this day in 1957. The legacy of laughter he created with chum & partner Stan Laurel lives on… and on… @TalkingPicsTV #DailyComedy #OliverHardy #ComedyHistorian #Cinema #Laughter #PhotoOfTheDay

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2 years

23rd March: So, chums! It would have been Barry Cryer’s 87th birthday today. For the #ComedyHistorian fraternity it’s a national holiday of laughter and lager. Just like every day with Baz. Do join in. #Comedy #CelebrateBaz #BarryCryer #ComicGenius #HappyDays #Birthday

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8 years

Commemorate one of the very finest of actors; 36 years a gone Goon. It's Peter Sellers Day @TalkingPicsTV

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9 years

The most joyous of Oscar photographs. Mr. #StanLaurel , who died 50 years ago today, with his honorary award. http://t.co/CW4U98pOCk

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1 year

Remembering my dear, dear friend Terry Jones, on what would have been his 81st birthday. Never has such silliness and such goodness been so personified in a single vessel. #TerryJones #ComicGenius #ComedyHistorian #Comedy #History #Birthday #HappyDays

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3 years

A very happy 6th birthday to @TalkingPicsTV - the nation’s favourite channel. And mine! 😘📺 Typical of its thoughtful care as a broadcaster of kindness and erudition, from 5.30pm. they screen #PeterCushing ’s The Human Factor interview: ‘For the Love of Helen’. Sheer beauty.

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2 years

Brand new documentary - The Amazing #HattieJacques : Larger Than Life, premieres on #C5 from 8pm. Lots of lovely, rare material, and insightful comments from some dear chums Anita Harris, Jacki Piper, Paul Cole, Andy Merriman… and me! #CarryOnFilms #BritishFilm #ComedyHistorian

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3 years

11th June: Bernard Bresslaw died on this day in 1993: just an hour before being due on stage, as Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew, at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. He was 59. A gentleman. And a gentle man. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #BernardBresslaw #Comedy #BritishFilm

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3 years

I fully endorse this message, my friend. Who needs a Knighthood when you get a ‘phone call from Baz. Let’s get #BarryCryer trending! 🤪🍾

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3 years

The HAPPIEST of birthdays to the great Barry Cryer! National treasure, joke machine, getting a phone call from him is the equivalent of getting an Oscar and a telegram from the Queen. Let's get him trending!! #BarryCryer #BazCryer @barrycryer80

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4 years

A Public Service Announcement The Land That Time Forgot is being screened @TalkingPicsTV from 11.25am. A gem from my youth that still thrills every fibre of my being. Glorious. @ERBurroughsFan What the world needs now is Doug McClure and @susanpenhaligon 🎬

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3 years

2nd May: Peggy Mount was born in Leigh-on-Sea, on this day in 1915. A glorious lifetime as British comedy’s favourite bellowing battle axe she was, of course, a total sweetheart. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #PeggyMount #Comedy #Theatre #Sitcom #Birthday #Actors #HappyDays

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4 years

My dear chum Sally Geeson has just texted me to share the joyous news that Bless This House is on ITV3 right now. There’s another double bill from 9am tomorrow, starting with a series one favourite of mine: If the Dog Collar Fits... Wear It. Peerless domestic #SitCom Watch it. 🤡

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6 years

My chum Sally Geeson has just texted me this gorgeous photograph, and asks me to share it for people who love Sid. x

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4 years

The happiest of birthdays to my dear chum Jim Dale #ShowBiz legend and the loveliest of chaps. Here we are in New York, hosting a prestigious celebration of the #CarryOnFilms 🎬🤡🍾 #JimDale #HappyDays #ComedyHistorian

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4 years

Remembering with total affection Joan Sims, who died on this day in 2001. What joy she gives. What laughs we had. 🤡💚🤡 #JoanSims #BritishFilm #Theatre #Television #Radio #Laughter #ComedyHistorian #Comedy #Friends

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4 years

Oh, how I adore Gene Wilder. Take a couple of minutes out to bask in his pure, calm joy here, with the equally irreplaceable Terry Wogan. 📺❤️

BBC Archive

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4 years

#OnThisDay 1989: Gene Wilder appeared on 'Wogan' and spoke about his need to make people laugh and having “mischievous eyes.”

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5 years

Finally getting round to reading my signed copy of ⁦ @EricIdle ⁩'s Sortabiography. As joyful as expected. Love this on Graham Chapman: "He had studied medicine at Cambridge and was now at St. Barts Hospital, where he was learning to become a fully qualified alcoholic." 🐍🐍

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6 years

Remembering Peter Wilton Cushing, who would have turned 105 today. An extraordinary actor. An exemplary gentleman.

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3 years

12th April: Saluting Talented Timbo. The death of Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE was announced one year ago today. Always remembered with huge affection and much laughter. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #TimBrookeTaylor #Comedy #TheGoodies #Clue #1948Show #ComicGenius #Laughter

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4 years

30th November: The new series of @ISIHAClue starts this evening, from 6.30pm. @BBCRadio4 Recorded at Huddersfield Town Hall in March, it’s the first of two editions capturing the last time the much-missed Tim Brooke-Taylor played the game. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #Clue

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1 year

Long Live the #King ! Sixty years ago Prince Charles met Sidney James, on location filming for #CarryOn Cabby. #ComedyHistorian #KingCharlesIII #SidJames

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3 years

3rd January: Christopher Beeny, that splendid stalwart of #SitCom & #Panto , died one year ago today. With telly serendipity, from 6pm today Chris joins the cast of Upstairs, Downstairs, in the @TalkingPicsTV run. Enjoy! #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #ChristopherBeeny #Comedy

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4 years

This was snapped at the National Film Theatre, at The Complete Goodies book launch the day before my 30th. birthday. I think my grin could power a small country. The afterglow still could. How I love those Super Chaps Three. 💚

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3 years

17th July: Remembering that #ComicGenius package of pure kindness and slapstick, Mr Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE, who would have turned 81 today. Forever missed. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #Comedy #TimBrookeTaylor #Laughter #TheGoodies #Clue #Slapstick #Funny #Friends

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1 year

Blessing the memory of Tim Brooke-Taylor: a #ComicGenius who wore his legacy with the lightest of touches and a generosity of spirit. One of a kind was that super chap three. #ComedyHistorian #TimBrookeTaylor #Friends

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9th June: It's seven years ago today since the utterly, utterly, utterly, utterly brilliant and irreplaceable Doctor The Rik Mayall died. It's still not bloody OKay. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #RikMayall #Comedy #ComicGenius #Laughter #Television #BritishFilm #photooftheday

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1 year

Ah! Now… #InsideNo9 doing #OnTheBuses with guest star @Robin_Askwith is already going to be one of the telly highlights of the year. You just know it! The oeuvre of #StevePemberton & @ReeceShearsmith is the very definition of appointment TV. #BobGrant #StephenLewis #Comedy23 📺

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6 years

I'm delighted to be the host of a brand new magazine show, exclusive ⁦ @TalkingPicsTV ⁩ #TalkingPictures with... premieres at 4:30pm, and my guest for this programme is the effervescent Anita Harris. ⁦ @TheAnitaHarris ⁩ ⁦ @CarryOnJoan ⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦ @BritishComedy ⁩

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3 years

Gloriously it’s #RichardOSullivanDay ‘round these parts - an actor of gusto and integrity who always brings with him such a warm glow of fun - so here’s a reunion of the Carry On Teacher saboteurs (with Paul Cole and Larry Dann) for the commentary recording. A very happy day!

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10 years

Oct. 24: Fredric March, Rouben Mamoulian & Miriam Hopkins on the set of 'Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'. #HalloweenCountdown http://t.co/eIHSTwXmjG

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5 years

Remembering Peter Butterworth on his birthday. One of my top comedy heroes. An actor of nuance, charm, & knowing business, who can instantly lift any production blessed with his very presence. ⁦ @CarryOnJoan ⁩ ⁦ @DrWhoOnline ⁩ #ComicGenius 🎂🎭🍾 #Pound

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5 years

Stopped in the Post Office by a bloke who asked: "Aren't you on ⁦ @TalkingPicsTV ⁩?" Full of grateful thanks to everyone involved with his favourite channel. Spent a pleasant ten minutes chatting about Jimmy Hanley, Sid James, Jack Warner... All queues should be like this!

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2 years

Celebrating #HiDeHi legends #birthdays Simon Cadell and David Griffin. Superbly different performances that perfectly fitted the same space in that extraordinary team. We’ll be saluting both men in @JeffHolland07 #Comedy Friends & Heroes @pizzajazzclub this coming weekend.

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1 year

One of the great #SitComs , Ever Decreasing Circles, 1st broadcast on this day in 1984. Delighted to be welcoming #RichardBriers ’ co-stars Penelope Wilton & @PeterEgan6 @lsqtheatre on Sunday, 19th February. #AfterLife @rickygervais @JaneFallon Book now:

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5 years

Farewell to Terry O’Neill. What a gent. What a photographer. Here’s one of my favourite works of his art: Dudley Moore & Peter Cook, born this day in 1937, relaxing in Beverly Hill in 1975. #Stunning @Terry_ONeill

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2 years

7th January: Arnold Ridley - Playwright, Actor, Teacher, Lance Corporal in the Great War, Captain in the 2nd, Member of the Home Guard: both fact and fiction - born on this day, in 1896. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #Comedy #ArnoldRidley Here on location for the #DadsArmy film.

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3 years

The very first copy of #ForgottenHeroesOfComedy is in the hands of the Godfather of #Comedy Barry Cryer. Be more Baz. Get one. Published @unbounders , and available from all good purveyors of books. A hefty tome of 600+ pages. Buy for friends & family too.

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3 years

23rd March: It's Baz Day! Another essential public holiday in your #Comedy calendar. Happy Birthday to Barry Cryer. Truly a National Treasure. #DailyComedy #BarryCryer #ComedyHistorian #Clue #Friends #Funny #Laughter #JokersWild #Jokes #HappyDays #Birthday

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6 years

64 years ago this evening, Alan Simpson, Tony Hancock and Ray Galton launched 'Hancock's Half Hour'. It's still the high-water mark of comedy. It always will be. #StoneMe #HhhancocksHalfHour #ClassicComedy

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10 years

One of the most joyous photographs you'll *ever* see. Sir Richard & Sir David Attenborough. http://t.co/qS1bMcqJUI

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6 years

That gentle man Bernard Bresslaw would've turned 84 today. Here piling on comic menace for Carry On... Up the Khyber.

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@RobertWRossEsq

3 years

14th April: A very happy 90th birthday to that splendid actor and spirited chap, Kenneth Cope. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #KennethCope #Comedy #TW3 #HopkirkDeceased #CarryOnFilms #Funny #Laughter #Liverpool #Actors

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6th December: I've been delighted to spend a lot of time with my dear friend Angela Douglas this year, celebrating #CarryOn60 in North Wales & the Med! Here she is promoting her favourite, Carry On Cowboy, in December 1965. #ComedyAdvent ⁦ @ImAngelaDouglas ⁩ @angeladouglashq

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@RobertWRossEsq

10 years

Christopher Lee is the Creature @hammerfilms inaugural Gothic The Curse of Frankenstein BBC4 10pm #HalloweenCountdown http://t.co/oQrXPRfsXH

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@RobertWRossEsq

6 years

4th December: Comedy hero Ronnie Corbett was born on this day in 1930. Here topping the bill at the London Palladium in 'Cinderella' for the 1971/72 season. Terry Scott & Julian Orchard were his Uglies. Clodagh Rodgers was Cinders. Bliss. #ComedyAdvent

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@RobertWRossEsq

4 years

Tony. Tony. Tony! You are still one of the most gorgeous, fiercely intelligent, perceptively hilarious people I know. So there! 😏 I urge you all to watch this important #Horizon documentary, Thursday, 9pm. #BBC2 And do follow @ItsTonySlattery The best is yet to come... 💚

Tony Slattery

@ItsTonySlattery

4 years

Humbled to see the @sundog_pictures #Horizon film, What’s the Matter with Tony Slattery?, @BBCTwo 9pm., is this Thursday’s Pick of the Day @RadioTimes Alison Graham calls me: “handsome, clever, funny.” Ah! Those were the days! 😘 Please share this post, and do watch. Love Tony x

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5 years

I would dearly love to do this! Any publishers out there cool enough to take it on? #RichardWattis 🤓

Danny Baker

@prodnose

5 years

I have terrific books about such supporting stars as Peggy Mount, James Robertson Justice and Charles Hawtrey. Yet I await the Richard Wattis biography more than anything. @RobertWRossEsq

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My favourite Kind Hearts & Coronets poster - for the Danish release. A perfect way to salute Alec Guinness, born this day in 1914. Oh, and a career best performance from Dennis Price. An actor with a special place in my affections. ⁦ @EalingStudios ⁩ ⁦ @TalkingPicsTV ⁩

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9 years

#NationalDogDay Any excuse to share once again my favourite photograph of Cary Grant with a puppy in his pocket! http://t.co/sWGoIKhmjM

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6 years

Not so long ago, Saturday morning telly regularly screened Charlie, Stan & Ollie, Bud & Lou, the Marx Bros... It was a crucial education, and fuelled my lifelong passion for comedy. Just having this great stuff sitting there in the wild is essential. Hats off @TalkingPicsTV

Talking Pictures TV

@TalkingPicsTV

6 years

09:40 COMEDY COCKTAIL (1951) An E J Fancey compilation of some of #CharlieChaplin early film comedies

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Robert Ross

@RobertWRossEsq

3 years

One of my very favourite things is reunion photographs of #TheGoodies - its a bittersweet pleasure now, of course, but that archive of pictures still makes my #ComedyHistorian heart sing. As it's G.G. Day, here's a favourite from @SlapstickFest January 2020. What a time that was!

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@RobertWRossEsq

4 years

14th November: That lovely actor Michael Robbins would have turned 90 today. #DailyComedy #ComedyHistorian #Facebook #MichaelRobbins @BritishComedy @on_the_buses_tv @BritComedyShop @Classicbritcom 🤡🍻

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