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On the Ning Nang Nong" is a poem by the comedian Spike Milligan featured in his 1959 book Silly Verse for Kids. [1] In 1998 it was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poems by poets such as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear .
John Richard Hegley [1] (born 1 October 1953) is an English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter.He has a reputation for wry and surreal humour, mostly performance-oriented or designed for younger audiences, and often sung or accompanied by music he himself plays; his material incorporates "a mix of anecdotes, jokes, idiosyncratic observations, confessions and surreal narratives".
He hosted his own television comedy series, The Jerry Colonna Show, which lasted a single season. He was host of the "Revenge with Music" episode on The Colgate Comedy Hour in 1954. His TV work also included voicing Moon Mad Tiger on Time for Beany , [ 2 ] serving as the second and last ringmaster/host/performer on Super Circus (1955–56), and ...
He is the second actor (the first being the actress Madhubala with an eponymous 1950 film) to have one or more Hindi films in his name, but the only one with two (the 1957 film Johnny Walker and the 1992 Malayalam film Johnnie Walker). He was the first actor to keep a secretary/manager. He was the first actor to stop working on Sundays.
White was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 27, 1921. [1] His official biography reported that he "ran away to join the circus" as a child. White was born near the old Royal Theatre in Baltimore, where by the age of 10, he used to dance outside for coins and sold candy at the theater.
Jim Short (1967 – January 5, 2025) was an Australian-born American stand-up comedian from San Francisco. Originally from Australia, he moved to Texas in 1979, and over time his faded accent caused some controversy, which he often joked about.
Tun Tun [1] (11 July 1923 – 24 November 2003) [2] was the screen name of Indian playback singer and actress-comedienne, Uma Devi Khatri, who was called "Hindi cinema's first-ever comedienne". [ 3 ] Childhood
Comic Relief is a British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry in response to the 1983-1985 famine in Ethiopia. [3] The concept of Comic Relief was to get British comedians to make the public laugh, while raising money to help people around the world and in the United Kingdom.