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Tommy Cooper
Tommy Cooper

Tommy Cooper

  • Welsh
  • Comedian and magician

Tommy Cooper features

Statler and Waldorf Features

Comedy Chronicles: Kindly get on the stage - The real comic heritage of heckling

Sunday 6th April 2025

What many hecklers, these days, fail to understand, is that the best hecklers are comedians. That's why they're up on the stage and we're down in the stalls.

Richard Gill Live

Celebrating 50 years of watching stand-up: Richard Gill's 25 special shows

Saturday 21st September 2024

Having been watching live comedy for 50 years now, Richard Gill has seen over 1,500 comedians. Here he details his top 25 moments from all the shows he's seen.

Film Fun: Tony Hancock Features

Comics in comics

Sunday 17th September 2023

Julian Dutton looks at the comic strips that have featured comedians. Tony Hancock, Terry-Thomas, Harry Secombe and Ken Dodd were amongst those featured in publications like Film Fun - it's a rich history of how comedians were perceived.

Golden Age of British Comedy tribute. Image shows left to right: Henry Dawe, Mary Piercy, Scott Simpson Features

Wordy tribute celebrates Golden Age talents in BBC's centenary year

Monday 21st November 2022

Three actors, one script and dozens of names! The Golden Age of British Comedy is honoured in the first of six audio instalments.

Tommy Cooper Features

100 years of Tommy Cooper

Monday 15th March 2021

With the 100th anniversary of Tommy Cooper's birth set to be celebrated on Friday, writer and actor John Hewer - who impersonates the comedy legend - pays tribute to the amazing talents of the comedian and magician.

John Hewer. Copyright: Steve Ullathorne Live

How to pay tribute to Tommy Cooper... seemingly 'Jus'-Like-That!'

Monday 23rd July 2018

John Hewer - who will be performing as Tommy Cooper in a tribute show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe - explains how he became interested in the comedian, and why it's sad there's no full record of Cooper's ever-evolving stage act.

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