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Max Miller

British comedian

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The British tradition and the spread of stand-up comedy
…and early 20th centuries, especially Max Miller, who dressed in flashy suits and delivered cheeky fast-paced comedy patter in between song-and-dance bits. The more progressive British comedy of the 1950s and ’60s was largely an outgrowth of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge tradition of satirical college revues, including the…
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…and early 20th centuries, especially Max Miller, who dressed in flashy suits and delivered cheeky fast-paced comedy patter in between song-and-dance bits. The more progressive British comedy of the 1950s and ’60s was largely an outgrowth of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge tradition of satirical college revues, including the…
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