What was the name of the sound effect comedy created by the English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years?
Eric Sykes Eric Sykes, CBE (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus, and Johnny Speight. Sykes first came to prominence through his many radio credits as a writer and actor in the 1950s, most notably through his collaboration on "The Goon Show" scripts. He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when he appeared with Hattie Jacques in several popular BBC comedy television series.
Mike Yarwood Michael Edward "Mike" Yarwood, OBE (born 14 June 1941) is an English actor, comedian and impressionist. He was one of Britain's top-rated entertainers, regularly appearing on television from the 1960s to the 1980s.