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British comedyBritish comedies have set themselves apart from the TV shows of other countries by providing consistently quirky characters, settings and plots for many years. One of the most notable is the seventies show Monty Python's Flying Circus, a sketch comedy show that introduced us to such comedy luminaries as John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Terry Gilliam. Other sketch shows include French and Saunders, Alas Smith and Jones[?], Rutland Weekend TV[?] and Spike Milligan's Q series.As well as sketch shows, the situation comedy is another genre of peculiarly British humour. Popular British sitcoms have included Absolutely Fabulous, The Young Ones, Murder Most Horrid, Fawlty Towers, and Are You Being Served?. See Also his tragic death balanced the account between you and Society?"
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curiously.
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in testing the attractions in daily life of a would-be film star.
subtly concocted tissue of lies. I committed perjury freely.
lately, and why I took these few months out of harness."
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practically amount to a new career. That is why I preferred not
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little group of newcomers, glanced towards Francis curiously.
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further end of the room, leaving a wave of artificiality behind,
speculation, that it was they and the rest of the gay company who
playing a sombre part in some unreal and gloomier world.
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