Whitehall farce

But after 17 months, the couple were in a situation "worthy of any Whitehall farce", says Jo.

"I do wish you wouldn't do that bursting into the room like some jealous husband in a Whitehall farce."

'It was like a Whitehall farce the way that money was passed around when they got it.'

In its obituary notice The Times called him "the doyen of Whitehall farce".

As a stage actor he was a mainstay of Brian Rix's Whitehall farces company.

Others who appeared in one or more of the Whitehall farces include Terry Scott and Andrew Sachs.

Yet the evening's fundamental appeal is still to the kind of mind that found the Aldwych and Whitehall farce so irrestistible.

His first Whitehall farce, for Brian Rix was Dry Rot.

'What started out on Black Wednesday as a tragic-comedy has degenerated into Whitehall farce.'

Beaumarchais/Livings is funnier, faster and subtler than, say, the average Whitehall farce and could be just as accessible.

Committee chairman Keith Vaz said her performance was "more like the scene of a Whitehall farce than a government agency operating in the 21st century".

He appeared on stage as Grobchick in the 1958 production of the Whitehall farce Simple Spymen.

Larry Noble (d. 1993) was a celebrated stage comedian and actor best known for starring in the Whitehall farces with Brian Rix.

A RAID on a Post Office turned into a 'Whitehall farce' when the robbers got more than they bargained for.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, a similar hit series of farces began at the Whitehall Theatre and came to be known as Whitehall farces.

Cooney began acting in 1946 appearing in many of the Whitehall farces of Brian Rix throughout the 1950s and '60s.

He has two children with his second wife, Julie Dawn Cole, whom he met in 1988 in the revival of the Whitehall farce "Dry Rot"; they were divorced in 2002.

He appeared as pantomime dames in various English cities, and in 1956 he joined the Brian Rix company, in which he achieved his widest fame, in Whitehall farce.

After the War, he abandoned a career with the Bank of England for the stage, appearing in a number of Whitehall farces and dramas on BBC television at Alexandra Palace.

The Whitehall farces were a series of five long-running comic stage plays at the Whitehall Theatre in London, presented by the actor-manager Brian Rix, in the 1950s and 60s.

The successor to the "Aldwych farce" was the even more unsophisticated "Whitehall farce," again named after the theater where example after example was successfully housed, this time in the 1940's and 50's.

The timing of his Eurosceptic enemies was so crass as to make the spectacle in the Commons look as if Britain had chosen to stage a Whitehall farce on the deck of the Titanic.

It was third in the long-running series of Whitehall farces produced by the actor-manager Brian Rix; it followed Reluctant Heroes (1950) which had run for 1,610 performances and Dry Rot (1,475 performances from 1954).

According to Leslie Smith in a study of modern British farce, although some of the Rix productions after Chase Me, Comrade achieved substantial success, none of them had the conspicuously long runs of the five Whitehall farces.

Not only are there allusions to Shakespeare and Marlowe, but also to Wilde and Whitehall farce; to the gentility of Ealing Studios, with a plot that distantly evokes that other great black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, and to Hammer's gore-fests.