#comedy archiving

Laurel and Hardy - the OGs

Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers - sweetness itself

Morecambe and Wise - the marrieds

Lee and Herring - years after they split up, The Guardian asked them to do this. Stew had ironic fun with it, Rich is showing what he's really thinking

The Mighty Boosh - one of the least gay things Julian & Noel did was the short film Sweet. Look at that pride flag duvet.

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith - Inside No 9: Simon Says

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This is part of a series - check the tag #British comedy groups for the rest!

The Goons - Harry Secombe, b. St Thomas, Swansea “Wales has produced princes, poets, bards, scholars, and more recently a very memorable Goon.” - Charles Windsor’s investiture speech, Caernarfon Castle, 1969.

Monty Python - Terry Jones, b. Colwyn Bay A patron of Theatr Colwyn, Jones was awarded with a commemorative blue plaque to go up on the front of the house he grew up in.

“All of which was very nice, but I was told they can’t put it up until after I’m dead." - Walesonline interview, 2016

Not the Nine O'Clock News - Griff Rhys Jones, b. Cardiff Mel: “It’s because you’re Welsh, isn’t it?” Griff: “Oh don’t be ridiculous! The Welsh are a very tactile nation.”

The Comic Strip - Keith Allen, b. Llanelli, Carmarthenshire Keith's brother Kevin, also sometime Comic Strip player, made a mad film during the pandemic set in Wales with seemingly every Welsh actor in it. La Cha Cha.

The Fast Show - Paul Whitehouse, b. Stanleytown, Glamorgan The son of a Coal Board worker and an opera singer, as a toddler Whitehouse was voted Baby Smile of Rhondda Valley.

Ronnie Hazelhurst (RIP) Are You Being Served? Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Last of the Summer Wine The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin To the Manor Born Yes, Minister Yes, Prime Minister

Simon Brint (RIP) The Comic Strip Presents French and Saunders Absolutely Fabulous 2point4 Children The Lenny Henry Show Alexei Sayle’s Stuff The All New Alexei Sayle Show A Bit of Fry & Laurie Bottom Bellamy's People

Philip Pope Not the Nine O'Clock News Spitting Image Whose Line Is It Anyway? Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul Ted & Ralph Kevin & Perry Go Large

Peter Brewis Not the Nine O'Clock News The Young Ones Spitting Image Alas Smith & Jones The Lenny Henry Show Filthy, Rich & Catflap Smith & Jones The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer Quanderhorn

Howard Goodall Red Dwarf Blackadder Mr. Bean The Thin Blue Line The Vicar of Dibley The Catherine Tate Show 2point4 Children