Funny Man (TV series)

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| starring = Jimmy Jewel
David Schofield

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| producer = Anthea Browne-Wilkinson
Peter Duguid

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| runtime = 60 minutes

| company = Thames Television

| channel = ITV

| first_aired = {{start date|1981|4|23|df=y}}

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Funny Man is a British comedy television series which first aired on ITV in 1981.Halliwell p.312 It portrays a family of music hall entertainers in the late 1920s and early 1930s, at the time of the Great Depression and the continuing desertion of traditional music hall audiences to the cinemas. Star Jimmy Jewel had himself grown up in a family of comedians active during the era.

Actors who appeared in individual episodes include Elsie Randolph, Nell Campbell, Sylvia Coleridge, Madeline Smith and Leslie Sarony