Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fictional characters in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19800. The names have since become synonymous in western popular culture slang for any two people who look and act in identical ways, generally in a derogatory context. Common versions of the nursery rhyme include: The words "Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee" make their first appearance in print in "one of
Matt Lucas Lucas had worked on since "Little Britain". In 2010, Lucas played Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland". Starting in February 2010, Lucas began hosting his own radio show, "And The Winner Is", in which he handed out a fictional series of awards based on nominations by his guests. On 3 October 2010, Matt played Thénardier in the 25th Anniversary Concerts of ""Les Misérables", at the O2 Arena in London. A year later, from 23 June to 10 September 2011, he reprised the role at the Queen's Theatre, in the West End. He has since collaborated with Alfie