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Sibling revelry: the sisters who became ferociously funny comedy duos – The Guardian
When you’ve shared jokes since childhood, you can be brutally honest with each other. Flo & Joan and Ruby Wax’s daughters, Maddy and Marina Bye, on becoming family double acts
Theyve been described as the other popular comedy duo from TVs golden age, second only to Morecambe and Wise. But double-act life was not kind to Mike and Bernie Winters. They were together, they split up, they reunited. They agreed to separate for good, but set the date five years into the future. This, wrote one chronicler of comedy, was to discover ever more rancorous ways to despise each other. When they finally parted in 1978, it was only because their father had died: he had, Mike reported…
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