Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

I could justifiably claim this year to have been a professional actor for 70 years. In 1956, when I was just 13, I was recruited to play the imaginary son of Eleanor Summerfield, the star of a Granada

For almost 30 years, Paul O’Grady was seldom off the box. As Lily Savage, he’d hosted Blankety Blank, presented C4’s The Big Breakfast, and been a regular face on ITV’s This Morning. And, minus the pl

In 2024, my daughter, Rebecca, and I embarked on a journey to create a film exploring Laurel and Hardy’s time in Yorkshire. Our project involved retracing the steps of these legendary comedians across

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Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers