Keith Allen (actor) films in the series "The Comic Strip Presents..." on Channel 4 in the 1980s after becoming one of the breakthrough acts of the Comedy Store in 1979. Notable episodes featuring Allen include "" (a parody of "The Professionals"), and "The Yob" (a parody of "The Fly"), which he also co-wrote. Allen has done both straight and comedy acting. In 1985 The Comic Strip hit the big screen with "The Supergrass" starring Allen, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Robbie Coltrane, directed by Comic Strip actor Peter Richardson. During the brief period of British Satellite Broadcasting as an alternative satellite
Barney Williams (actor) "Over on the other side of the cemetery, on Battle Hill, from which the bay and the city can be viewed, sleeps Barney Williams, almost the first actor in the line of Irish comedy. His monument is a rich and costly one, of the Gothic order. It is adorned with a marble bust of the comedian. On the base of the monument is the name "Bernard Flaherty," which was the real name of Barney Williams. This plot is kept in splendid order by the actor's widow, still a handsome woman, whose snowy hair seems like a crown upon her shapely