Chuckle Brothers for the 2013 Christmas special. On 13 March 2015, they appeared again on Comic Relief, this time in a sketch based around "National Treasures". The duo appeared at the 2016 "Royal Variety Performance", performing sketches with host David Walliams. In April 2018, it was announced the brothers were in the process of recording a new clip show for Channel 5, entitled "Chuckle Time"; It ran for one series during the summer of that year, although it was cut short following the death of Barry Elliot in August 2018. As well as regular TV appearances, Paul and Barry appeared on stage
The Statler Brothers are actual brothers and none has the surname of Statler. The band, in fact, named themselves after a brand of facial tissue they had noticed in a hotel room (they joked that they could have turned out to be the Kleenex Brothers). Don Reid sang lead; Harold Reid, Don's older brother, sang bass; Phil Balsley sang baritone; and Lew DeWitt sang tenor and was the guitarist of the Statlers before being replaced by Jimmy Fortune in 1983 due to DeWitt's ill health. DeWitt continued to perform as a solo artist until his death on August 15, 1990, from heart and