KnowraBritish comedyLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to British comedy, each with the reason it gives.All 16Narrower topic 15Compared with 1Music hallNarrower topic: Music hall established comic conventions and performer-audience styles inherited by later British comedy.Noël CowardNarrower topic: Coward’s social satire and verbal precision became influential features of this tradition.Terry JonesNarrower topic: Jones helped define the international reputation of modern British television and film comedy.Peter SellersNarrower topic: Sellers carried radio-born British comic techniques into internationally popular films.American comedyCompared with: Its institutions and styles offer a useful comparison with American comic traditions.British popular cultureNarrower topic: Distinctive comic traditions circulate widely through British entertainment institutions.Michael PalinNarrower topic: Palin’s ensemble television work became a prominent part of its international reputation.Spike MilliganNarrower topic: Milligan’s influence helped shape later generations of British comedy writers and performers.Stan LaurelNarrower topic: Laurel’s English origins connect his American film career to a wider British comic tradition.Graham NortonNarrower topic: Norton's work combines Irish comic sensibility with the institutions of British entertainment.John Le MesurierNarrower topic: His dry, understated performance belongs to a distinctive British comic tradition.Alan AyckbournNarrower topic: Ayckbourn’s domestic social comedy became a major strand of postwar British theatre.Margaret RutherfordNarrower topic: Rutherford’s eccentric, emphatic style became a recognizable strand of British screen comedy.Stanley HollowayNarrower topic: Holloway’s dialect monologues became a recognizable strand of British popular comedy.Terry-ThomasNarrower topic: His career belongs to postwar British comedy’s movement between variety, cinema, and television.Tommy CooperNarrower topic: Cooper became one of the best-known figures in postwar British comedy.
KnowraBritish comedyLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to British comedy, each with the reason it gives.All 16Narrower topic 15Compared with 1Music hallNarrower topic: Music hall established comic conventions and performer-audience styles inherited by later British comedy.Noël CowardNarrower topic: Coward’s social satire and verbal precision became influential features of this tradition.Terry JonesNarrower topic: Jones helped define the international reputation of modern British television and film comedy.Peter SellersNarrower topic: Sellers carried radio-born British comic techniques into internationally popular films.American comedyCompared with: Its institutions and styles offer a useful comparison with American comic traditions.British popular cultureNarrower topic: Distinctive comic traditions circulate widely through British entertainment institutions.Michael PalinNarrower topic: Palin’s ensemble television work became a prominent part of its international reputation.Spike MilliganNarrower topic: Milligan’s influence helped shape later generations of British comedy writers and performers.Stan LaurelNarrower topic: Laurel’s English origins connect his American film career to a wider British comic tradition.Graham NortonNarrower topic: Norton's work combines Irish comic sensibility with the institutions of British entertainment.John Le MesurierNarrower topic: His dry, understated performance belongs to a distinctive British comic tradition.Alan AyckbournNarrower topic: Ayckbourn’s domestic social comedy became a major strand of postwar British theatre.Margaret RutherfordNarrower topic: Rutherford’s eccentric, emphatic style became a recognizable strand of British screen comedy.Stanley HollowayNarrower topic: Holloway’s dialect monologues became a recognizable strand of British popular comedy.Terry-ThomasNarrower topic: His career belongs to postwar British comedy’s movement between variety, cinema, and television.Tommy CooperNarrower topic: Cooper became one of the best-known figures in postwar British comedy.