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Ball was born at Boundary Park General Hospital in Oldham, Lancashire, on 28 January 1944, [2] to May (née Savage) and Bob Harper. [3] [4] He attended Crompton House C of E school, Shaw, Oldham, and briefly studied Shipping Management at Wigan Mining & Technical College [2] before going to work in a factory as a welder, where he also met his future partner in comedy, Thomas Derbyshire (Tommy ...
The Cannon and Ball Show was a successful comedy variety show on ITV featuring the double act comprising Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball. [1]The pair were booked to perform on seven episodes of Bruce Forsyth's Big Night, but not all of their segments were screened, as producers were trying to shore up ratings and decided to give Forsyth more air time instead. [2]
Thomas Derbyshire (born 27 June 1938), known professionally as Tommy Cannon, is an English comic, actor and singer.He is best known as the straight man of the comic double act Cannon and Ball, until Bobby Ball's death in 2020, in TV programmes such as The Cannon and Ball Show.
Cannon and Ball were an English double act comprising Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball, who met in the early 1960s while working as welders in Oldham, Lancashire. [1] They started as singers working the pubs and clubs of Greater Manchester and switched to comedy after being told comics earned an extra £3 a night. They continued to work as a comic ...
The eleventh series was the last series to feature Bobby Ball as Frank following Ball's death in October 2020. A New Year's Eve special aired on 30 December 2020 [26] and the regular series began on 8 January 2021, consisting of five episodes (and a Christmas special on 23 December 2021). [27]
The Cockfields is a British television sitcom created by Joe Wilkinson and David Earl, and produced by Yellow Door Productions for Gold.It aired over two series from 12 November 2019 until 12 November 2021, including a Christmas special, for a total of 10 episodes.
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Bobby Ball naming returned for the 1976–1978 editions, the last of which was title sponsored by Miller High Life. [6] Miller's sponsorship continued through the 1983 edition. The race then had three different title sponsors for its final three editions: Stroh's , [ 7 ] Dana , [ 8 ] and Circle K .