Interested that nobody has mentioned Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jack Benny [tho one mention of Red Skelton, only it called him Skeleton!]. That was surely a vintage generation over there. And how about the Marx Bros, the Mills Bros, the Three Stooges? & all those are Stateside. Over here I grew up with Tommy Handley, Vic Oliver [who did a regular Hi-Gang show with visiting Americans Bebe Daniels & Ben Lyon], Ted Ray, Tommy Trinder, Ronald Frankau, Billy Bennett ~~ just about the tail-end of the old Music Hall tradition. My father had seen such as Marie Lloyd, Dan Leno, Albert Chevalier, Gus Elen... But they, alas, all before my time; tho an aged Nellie Wallace was still going in my childhood in the 30s-40s. And I recall seeing the great Suzette Tarri, as part of audience for a radio show, The Happidrome, in 1943, which had its own resident team of comics, led by Harry Korris.

~Michael~