With Red Nose Day on 17 March shining the spotlight firmly on funny folk turning themselves inside out to raise a laugh for charity, let’s doff our comedy titfers in their direction by way of looking at stamps featuring people who make us split our sides for a living.
A brilliant place to start is the Royal Mail 2015 commemorative Comedy Greats ten-stamp set, which was fittingly released on All Fool’s Day (1 April) and celebrates six decades of rib-tickling mirth, including the much-loved TV comedians of British TV comedy’s ‘Golden Age’. The First Class stamps depict TV standup and sketch show stars Spike Milligan, The Two Ronnies, Billy Connolly,
