Comedic character posters & prints

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as "Pete and Dud' Michael Brennan

Barry Humphries Carl Bruin

Pierrot, 1922 Juan Gris

Polichinelle Bonnart

Italian Comedy Figure Polichinelle Anonymous

Character from the Commedia dell'Arte Claude Gillot

Characters and Caricatures. William Hogarth

Laughing Audience Thomas Clerk

Prunella Scales Daily Herald

Marty Feldman Anonymous

Rik Mayall, 1989 Bill Kennedy

The Goons 1963 Bela Zola

Humorous cartoon from the front cover of 'Le Rire', 22nd April 1899 Lucien Metivet

The Comedy of Errors, 1992/3 Ian Judge

The Comedy of Errors, 1983 Adrian Noble

En voulez des-z-homards? (would you like some lobsters?) Bordier

Illustration of Comedians Performing for Cardinal de Richelieu Anonymous

Commedia dell'Arte: Italian and French Comedians Playing in Farces Anonymous

BBC Comedy ' The Fall and Rise' Dick Williams

Comedy in the country. Tragedy in London Thomas Rowlandson

The Laughing Audience William Hogarth

The Actors of the Commedia dell'Arte Nicolas Lancret

Italian Comedy Figure Pantalone Anonymous

Scene in a park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte A Harliquinade Marcellus Laroon the Younger

A Funny Story William M. Hay

Harlequin on the scene Lambertus Antonius Claessens

The Commedia dell'Arte Company French School

Filming of 'Are You Being Served?', 1976 Peter Stone

Commedia dellarte Scene in an Italian Landscape Anonymous

St. Stephen's Pantomime Tom Merry

The First Act, a satirical play against William Prynne English School

Steptoe and Son Doreen Spooner

Polichinelle, 1873 Edouard Manet

Comedian Phil Cool Associated Newspapers

Getting Troublesome Again Political Cartoon Dalrymple

Screen Painting of Two Strolling Comedic Actors, One Carrying a Hand-Held Drum and the Other is Holding a Fan in... Anonymous