Character Building

It’s All In The Character

Over the years many of our favourite TV comedy shows have been driven by an array of crazy characters, so for this post we thought we’d look back at some of those characters.

Harry Enfield made early appearances on shows such as Saturday Night Live as several different characters he created alongside Paul Whitehouse

 

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Before going onto create an array of new characters in his various TV Shows

 

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Dick Emery was huge in the 1970’s with his array of classic characters

 

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Benny Hill’s famous Fred Scuttle

 

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Catherine Tate enjoyed huge success with her characters, two in particular really caught on

 

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Who can forget those politically incorrect characters  from Little Britain

 

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Times change but are we really so frightened to upset someone that comedy is loosing it’s bite.  Perhaps there is wisdom in what Carla Lane had to say when she spoke to us back in 2014 “I did my best at a time it was easier to do”