WStephen Carlin is a Scottish-born stand-up comedian and writer, now living in London. He was named by Stewart Lee as one of the 'Ten Best Comedians In The World Ever'. He has appeared on television and radio including ITV2's Comedy Cuts and The Milk Run on BBC Radio 1. He is represented by Glorious Management.
WRebecca Carrington is an English "music comedian". She is notable for a wide variety of spoofs of a variety of musical genres, starring Joe, her 18th century cello.
WClapham and Dwyer, Charles Clapham (1894-1959) and William Henry Dwyer (1891-1943), were a British comedy duo in the 1920s and 1930s.
WHal Dominic Bart Cruttenden is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor who has appeared on Mock the Week, Live at the Referendum, Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News for You, The 11 O'Clock Show, Richard Herring's Leicester Square Podcast, The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice, Pointless Celebrities, and Richard Osman's House of Games.
WCarl Donnelly is a British stand-up, dancer, comedian, and writer.
WNick Doody is a British stand-up comedian. He features frequently as a guest on radio broadcasts such as Political Animal and vox-pop television shows, although he is known primarily as a live stand-up comic.
WSophie Duker is an English stand-up comedian and writer.
WNorman Evans was a variety and radio performer, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England.
WGeorge Foottit was an English clown who found fame on the Paris circus scene. He is famous for being part of the clown duo "Foottit and Chocolat".
WTom Foy was an English music hall performer and comedian, who was born in Manchester of Irish parents.
WWilliam George Peter Glaze was an English comedian born in London. He appeared in Crackerjack! with Eamonn Andrews and Leslie Crowther in the 1960s, and with Michael Aspel, Don Maclean and Bernie Clifton in the 1970s. In Crackerjack! sketches, he usually played a pompous or upper-class character, who would always get exasperated with his partner Don Maclean during the course of the sketch. Maclean would then give an alliterative reply, such as "Don't get your knickers in a knot" or "Don't get your tights in a twist". He regularly uttered the expression "D'oh!", originated by James Finlayson in Laurel and Hardy films, long before it became associated with cartoon character Homer Simpson. He was also on the panel of the long-running radio panel game Twenty Questions, along with Joy Adamson, Anona Winn and Norman Hackforth.
WRhys James is an English stand-up comedian, originally from Harpenden in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, where he attended Roundwood Park School.
WMilton Hywel Jones is an English comedian. His style of humour is based on one-liners involving puns delivered in a deadpan and slightly neurotic style. Jones has had various shows on BBC Radio 4 and is a recurring guest panellist on Mock the Week. He won the Perrier comedy award for best newcomer in 1996. and in 2012, Another Case of Milton Jones was awarded silver in the 'Best Comedy' category at the 30th Sony Radio Academy awards. Jones tours the UK periodically and is a regular performer at The Comedy Store in London and Manchester.
WGary Le Strange is a character created by comedian Waen Shepherd. Le Strange is played as an eccentric English cult-rock composer, songwriter and performer, who believes his surreal and abstract performances to be groundbreaking.
WOlivia Lee is a British comedian, actress, and television presenter.
WDaniel Gideon Mazer is a British screenwriter, producer, and comedian. He is best known as the long-time writing and production partner of Sacha Baron Cohen and has worked with him on such characters as Ali G and Borat. Mazer co-wrote and co-produced the films Ali G Indahouse (2002), Borat (2006) and Brüno (2009).
WAlbert Modley was a variety entertainer and comedian.
WBillie Ritchie was a Scottish comedian who first gained transatlantic fame as a performer for British music hall producer Fred Karno—this, a full decade before Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin took a similar career path. Ritchie is best recalled today for the silent comedy shorts he made between 1914 and 1920 for director/producer Henry Lehrman's L-KO Kompany and Fox Film Sunshine Comedy unit.
WAndy Smart is an English comedian, actor, and TV panel show participant.
WHonour Margaret Rosell Santoi Fuller, better known as Jill Summers, was an English music hall performer and comedian. Her career in entertainment lasted eighty years and in 1982 she achieved stardom as Phyllis Pearce, in Granada Television's long-running soap opera Coronation Street. She left the programme in 1996, and died in January 1997 from kidney failure.
WDan Tetsell is a British actor, comedian and writer for radio, television and stage. He has worked on a number of projects, including The Museum of Everything, That Was Then, This Is Now, Newsjack and Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections. Notably, he created CBBC series Young Dracula with Museum of Everything colleague Danny Robins. He is married to comedy actor Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
WClara Torr (1868–1934) was a British music hall comedian.
WWilliam Joseph Waddington was an English music hall performer, actor, comedian and co-author who was born in Oldham, Lancashire. In later life he achieved stardom as the pompous ex-serviceman Percy Sugden in Granada Television's long-running soap opera Coronation Street.
WMartin White is an English musician, comedian and animator. As well as performing solo with an accordion around the London comedy circuit, White also fronts the Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra and the Karaoke Circus live bands. He performs jingles regularly in the comedy podcast Answer Me This!.
WBernie Winters, was an English comedian and the comic foil of the double act Mike and Bernie Winters with his older brother, Mike. Winters later performed solo, often with the aid of his St Bernard dog, Schnorbitz. Following his death, Winters bequeathed Schnorbitz to showman Richard De Vere.