Well, I cna remember seeing Burns & Allen on UK tv in the fifties ("Say goodnight, Gracie." "Goodnight, Gracie!"--before it was on Old Joke!), and Jack Benny too. I still find them funny on the (very) rare occasions they appear over here. (When I say "appear, I don't mean ... oh, you know what I mean!) Tommy Cooper--he could walk on stage without saying a word, and people would fall about laughing; it even worked for me on tv. What about Ken Dodd? One of the few left of the Old School. Talking of the Old School reminds me of Will Hay, and Moffat & Marriot. Then there was the Crazy Gang: Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, "Monsewer" Eddie Gray ... who else? I can just remember them from their last days.

Steve