Actor, Writer and Comedian David Schneider

Actor, Writer, Comedian

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"Of all the old time comics it's Laurel and Hardy I loved most as a kid and Laurel and Hardy who still make me laugh the most now: pushing the piano up the staircase, the one final brick dropping onto Ollie's head, his long suffering face, the relationship between the two... Genius. In my humble, there's been noone better at comic timing than them."

Actor and Comedian Matt Lucas

David Walliams and I always shared a love of Laurel and Hardy. My father introduced my brother and I to their films when we were tiny, and I always thought of them as friends. They used to show them at 6pm on BBC2 and I would gladly wait twenty minutes staring at the clock (before BBC2 ran all day) waiting for the channel to ‘open’! I loved ‘Sons Of The Desert’ and also ‘Oliver The Eighth’ - the latter still frightens me to this day. I also adore the escalating fight in ‘Berth Marks’ with everybody ripping each others’ clothes.’

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Actor Nigel Planer

Actor Mark Hamill

Comedian Paddy McGuinness

Actor, Comedian and TV Presenter Rob Brydon

Actor, Comedian and TV Presenter Stephen Fry

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Writer Graham Linehan

Irish television writer, actor and director.

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Graham Linehan co-wrote Father Ted and received a BAFTA for his writing on The IT Crowd which focuses on the exploits of a three-strong IT support team located in a forgotten basement of a British corporation in London. I asked Graham if the Father Ted series was influenced at all by Laurel and Hardy to which he replied... "Ardal O Hanlon based Dougal on Stan Laurel and ME. So yes! I also based a scene in 'IT Crowd' on one in sons of the desert. That 'Laurel and Hardy' are still funny to modern audiences means they have a sure hold on something central to the human condition. They are eternal in a way that I don't think, say, Chaplin is."

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Actor Mathew Horne

Actor and Comedian
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"I grew up with Laurel & Hardy. When I began my career it was in a double act and I attribute my love for Laurel & Hardy to that. My favourite scenes are from Flying Deuces, where they're locked in the cell and Stan starts playing the bedsprings like a harp. Pure, surrealist genius. Oh and the Blockheads scene (as seen in the photo below) where the football is kicked down the stairs and it hits the hotelier in the face causing his hair to flop forward."

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Actor Robert Florence

Scottish Comedy Writer and Actor

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"Their comedy partnership had an undercurrent of affection and warmth that is the blueprint for all comedy duos. The Kings."

Magician Paul Daniels