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British comedy writers

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  • Adil Ray
    Adil Ray British actor, comedian and presenter
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    Adil Ray (Urdu: عادل رے‎), OBE (born 26 April 1974) is a British actor, comedian and radio and television presenter. Ray also stars in the BBC One comedy Citizen Khan, which he created and co-writes, as well as presenting on various BBC radio stations and working as a relief presenter on ITV's Good Morning Britain.
  • Tracey Ullman
    Tracey Ullman British-American actress, comedian, singer, director, producer and writer
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    Tracey Ullman (born Trace Ullman; 30 December 1959) is a British-American actress, comedian, singer, writer, producer, and director. Her earliest appearances were on British television sketch comedy shows, A Kick Up the Eighties (with Rik Mayall and Miriam Margolyes) and Three of a Kind (with Lenny Henry and David Copperfield). After a brief singing career, she appeared as Candice Valentine in Girls on Top with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
  • Siobhan Thompson
    Siobhan Thompson British comedian (born 1984)
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    Siobhan Thompson (born 29 July, 1984) is a British sketch comedian and comedy writer. She is known for her work on the CollegeHumor Originals web series and has appeared in other programs such as Adam Ruins Everything and Broad City. She is also a staff writer for Adult Swim's Rick and Morty.
  • Ed Weeks
    Ed Weeks British actor
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    Edward Charles Egerton Weeks (born 25 October 1980) is an English-Salvadoran actor. Weeks is also a comedian, writer and producer. Between 2012 and 2017 he played Dr. Jeremy Reed on the Fox (now Hulu) comedy series The Mindy Project. He also starred as Colin on the Fox comedy series LA to Vegas.
  • John Oliver
    John Oliver English comedian
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    John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is an English-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. Oliver started his career as a stand-up comedian, both in the United Kingdom and United States. He came to wider attention for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as its senior British correspondent from 2006 to 2013. Oliver won three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work as a writer on The Daily Show and was its guest host for an eight-week period in 2013. In addition to The Daily Show, Oliver co-hosted the satirical comedy podcast The Bugle (2007–2015) with Andy Zaltzman, with whom Oliver had previously co-hosted the radio series Political Animal, and hosted John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central from 2010 to 2013. He has also acted on television, most notably in a recurring role as Ian Duncan on the NBC sitcom Community, and in films, notably voice-over work in The Smurfs (2011) and its sequel, and the remake of The Lion King.
  • Morwenna Banks
    Morwenna Banks British comedy actress, writer and producer
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    Tamsin Morwenna Banks (born 20 September 1961) is a British comedy actress, writer and producer. She appeared in the Channel 4 comedy sketch show Absolutely, and wrote, produced, and appeared in the British ensemble film The Announcement. She voices Mummy Pig, Madame Gazelle and Dr Hamster in the children's series Peppa Pig.
  • David Mitchell
    David Mitchell British comedian, actor, writer and television personality (born 1974)
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    David James Stuart Mitchell (born 14 July 1974) is a British comedian, actor, writer and television personality. He is part of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb.
  • Joanna Scanlan
    Joanna Scanlan English actress
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    Joanna Scanlan (born 27 October 1961) is an English actress and screenwriter. She is known for her roles in British television series such as The Thick of It (2005–2012), Getting On (2009–2012), Puppy Love (2014), and No Offence (2015–present). She was nominated for three BAFTA TV Awards for Getting On, including two for Best Writing. Her film appearances include Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003), Notes on a Scandal (2006), The Invisible Woman (2013), and Bridget Jones's Baby (2016).
  • Spike Milligan
    Spike Milligan Irish comedian (1918–2002)
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    Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a British-Irish actor, comedian, writer, poet and playwright. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, Milligan was born in India, where he spent his childhood, relocating to live and work the majority of his life in the United Kingdom. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg.
  • Richard Curtis
    Richard Curtis British filmmaker (born 1956)
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    Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956), is a British screenwriter, producer, and film director. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films, among them Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), About Time (2013) and Yesterday (2019). He is also known for the drama War Horse (2011), and for having co-written the hit sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean, and The Vicar of Dibley. His early career saw him write material for the BBC's Not the Nine O'Clock News and ITV's Spitting Image.
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