Patrick Ryan (author and journalist) then transferred to The Fourth Regiment of the Reconnaissance Corps of the Royal Armoured Corps. He served in North Africa, Italy, and Greece. He moved to Leeds in the 1950s as Assistant Head Postmaster, and his "apprenticeship" in adapting to Yorkshire life is related in his humorous memoir "How I Became A Yorkshireman", published in the late 1960s. He later became Head Postmaster at Harrogate and was a regular contributor for "Punch" and The New Scientist in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as writing several television plays and some episodes of "The Army Game" and "Bootsie and Snudge" both
British comedy films Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips. Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series. Recent successful films include the working class comedies "Brassed Off" (1996) and "The Full Monty" (1997), the more middle class Richard Curtis-scripted films "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) and "Notting Hill" (1999) the pop-culture referencing "Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy" ("Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End"), and a movie based on a real life event "The Boat That Rocked" (2009). In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the