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

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

One day in 1974, actress Prunella Scales travelled to Hyde Park Gardens to visit John Cleese in his flat to discuss a potential role in a new situation comedy called Fawlty Towers. As it happened, Cle