Tony Hancock
- English
- Actor and comedian
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Sky attacked for using Hancock suicide quote in tweet
Stone me! Sky TV have been accused of insensitivity for using a quote from Tony Hancock's suicide note to try to drum up business.
Chortle, 29th May 2018The Jane Russell joke that influenced British comedy
The joke, known as "the Jane Russell Pontoon sketch" was submitted by the writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson to a TV producer in 1951.
Joel Adams, The Telegraph, 2nd September 2017Tony Hancock's school photos found in Northern Ireland
The framed photographs from 1938, which had been forgotten about for decades, show a young Hancock, aged around 15, with his school football team and class.
Allan Preston, Belfast Telegraph, 29th August 2017What happened to the comedy trademark?
Comedians once embraced a signature quip or look, so why have such tropes fallen out of favour?
James Kettle, The Guardian, 7th August 2017Beryl Vertue: People don't give British comedy a chance
She represented Spike Milligan, Tony Hancock and Frankie Howerd. But Beryl Vertue refuses to believe that comedy's best days are behind us.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 16th March 2017How Radio 4 is bringing Tony Hancock back to life
The BBC is remaking lost episodes of Hancock's Half Hour - thanks to Harry Secombe's son.
Stephen Armstrong, Radio Times, 14th March 2017Tony Hancock is the Picasso of moaning
The BBC's Hancock revival is so good it sparked an epiphany. I've not laughed that much at a British sitcom in years. Nothing on TV is actually that funny anymore. It's not that there aren't shows I like and enjoy, it's just that I now realise I wasn't really laughing at them. I was only smiling wistfully. Or going "Ha."
Tim Stanley, The Telegraph, 8th September 2016New exhibit shows archive pictures of BBC comedians
Compton Verney exhibition charts 60 years of comedy, from Hancock's Half Hour to Miranda Hart.
Mark Brown, The Guardian, 26th June 2016A selection of 12 comedians with blue plaques in London
Here's our guide to the 12 comics with blue plaques in London.
Chortle, 12th May 2016Tony Hancock - 20 great quotes
"I don't want any publicity - you get too many begging letters. If they're anything like the ones I send out I don't want to know!"
The Telegraph, 8th November 2015