Comedy performance posters & prints

Amanda Barrie ahead of her performance in the comedy "A Publish Mischief" Newspix Blackpool

Billy Connolly in New York Michael Brennan

Amateur Performance of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's New Comedy, Before Her Majesty and Prince Albert, at Devonshire House, London Anonymous

Scene from Italian comedy Anonymous

Rehearsal of a Comedy Luis Paret y Alcazar

Scene from the New Comedy of Old Heads and Young Hearts, at the Haymarket Theatre Anonymous

Putting on Make-up Backstage Associated Newspapers

Trick in the Comic Dance in Mother Goose - Mr Grimaldi & Mr Bologna, print made by O'Keeffe, c.1805 (after) English School

Illustration of Comedians Performing for Cardinal de Richelieu Anonymous

The Four Garricks Anonymous

First Night at the Comedie Francaise in 1885 Edouard-Joseph Dantan

Comedie del arte Jean Jacques Spoede

Tommy Cooper Staff

Italian Comedy Figure Polichinelle Anonymous

Scene from a Comedy Ascensio Julia

The Comedy of Errors, 2007 Nancy Meckler

Billy Connolly meets George Best Kent Gavin

The Italian Comedians Flemish School

The Compagnia dei Comici Gelosi with Isabella Andreini depicted giving a performance in Paris Hieronymus Francken

Italian Comedy Figure Pantalone Anonymous

Scene from the New Comedy of Time Works Wonders, at the Haymarket Theatre Anonymous

George Grossmith in No, No, Nanette!, Palace Theatre, London Anonymous

Billy Connolly meets George Best in London Kent Gavin

Jasper Carrott Birmingham Post and Mail Archive

Billy Connolly Pictured in an apartment in London Stone

The Commedia dell'Arte Company French School

Will Hay, British comedian and actor Anonymous

Mrs Midnight's Animal Comedians Anonymous

The Laughing Audience William Hogarth

Actors from the Commedia dell'Arte Jan Baptist Lambrechts

The French Comedians, c.1720 Jean Antoine Watteau

Handbill advertising a performance of the 'Suprizing Learned PIG' at Astley's Amphitheatre, 1787 Anonymous

Jose Dalmaine, British actress Anonymous

Performance of The Gay Gordons Anonymous

Joe E. Brown (1892-1973), American actor and comedian Anonymous

Kate Santley, American-born British actress, singer, comedienne, and theatre manager St James's Photographic Co