Over the last 30 years, British comedy has become a much more serious business.

The pilot is based on the British comedy of the same name.

He is still regarded as a major influence in British comedy.

Unfortunately i don't find any British comedy funny at the moment.

The two were a symbiotic team, the long and short of British comedy.

You'd look down the shooting schedule sometimes and it would read like a family tree of British comedy.

And what do they make of the theory that British comedy has become much more vulgar in recent years?

One of the most consistently funny and charming people in British comedy.

The show was later acknowledged as a seminal force in British comedy throughout the 1990s and which continues to the present day.

He later became one of the most familiar faces in British comedy in his day.