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British television comedy series. This episode includes a c5 minute sketch in which a large American car skids around a corner and stops at the side of the curb in a smart Harley Street-like location. Terry...
Comedian Tony Hancock performing in sketches at the Royal Festival Hall, London. In one sketch (c. 5mins) Hancock appears as Lear with Joe Ritchie as the Fool, both in cod Elizabethan costume (mid-way...
Radio comedy series written by and starring Fred Allen. Maurice Evans and Allen joke about the misfit between lowbrow radio and highbrow culture (Shakespeare). Evans performs an extract from the ghost scene...
British television comedy series. Includes a sketch entitled ‘Hospital for Over-Actors’ which parodies Olivier. Dialogue is as follows: Specialist: Most of these cases are pretty unpleasant. Nurse......
Comedy sketch show and a one-off special. Sketches include: a hole in one from an invisible Irish golfer, a version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and a visit to the operations room of the Royal Army Medical...
Feature film comedy comprising seven sketches raised in the book of the same title by Dr David Reuben. In the first sketch ‘Do Aphrodisiacs Work?', Woody Allen plays a court jester; he recites a parody of...
British television comedy series. Includes a sketch, presented in newsreel style, satirising Mary Whitehouse’s campaign against pornography. A coach load of ‘pepperpots’ (middle-class grey-haired women...
BBC television comedy sletch show. This episode Includes a c3 minute sketch in which Harry Secombe plays the gravedigger to Julian Orchard’s Hamlet. While Hamlet makes his speech he is interrupted by...
A ‘Demonstration of Television Recording’, narrated by Ben Grauer and presented by NBC for its affiliates. The programme begins with a technical explanation of television followed by excerpts from past...
In a short skit towards the end of this episode of the classic comedy sketch show, Ronnie Barker stars as a forgetful actor who manages to jumble up all the lines from Hamlet’s famous ‘To be or not to...
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