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Media personalities who team up with each other very often, to the point they become inseparable in the public eye.

Double Acts:

• Abbott and Costello
• Adam And Joe
• Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
• Ant And Dec
• Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff
• Bob & Ray
• George Burns and Gracie Allen
• Jack Burns and George Carlin
• Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber
• Cheech And Chong
• Collings and Herrin
• Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (sometimes known as "Pete and Dud")
• Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
• Dick & Dom
• Flanders and Swann
• Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders
• Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
• Gallagher and Sheen
• Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski
• Homer and Jethro
• Laurel and Hardy
• Lee and Herring
• Levinson And Link
• Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin
• Rodgers & Hammerstein
• Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson
• The Mighty Boosh (Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt)
• Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky
• David Mitchell and Robert Webb
• Morecambe And Wise
• Penn & Teller
• Raymond and Peter ("Shut up, little man!!!")
• Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer
• Tim and Eric
• Timothy Swann and Ben Fell
• The Two Ronnies
• Mel Smith and Gryff Rhys-Jones
• The Umbilical Brothers
• Williams And Ree
• Williams and Walker
• Hamish And Andy
• Sonny & Cher

Groups:

• The American Quartet
• The Brat Pack
• Broken Lizard
• The Frat Pack
• The Goons
• The Goodies
• The Happiness Boys
• The Marx Brothers
• Monty Python
• The Muppets performers. Especially Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Dave Goelz and Richard Hunt.
  • There were regular double acts within the Muppeteers, most obviously Henson and Oz (Kermit and Piggy, Kermit and Fozzie, Ernie and Bert) but also Nelson and Hunt (Floyd and Janice, Robin and Sweetums, the Two-Headed Monster, Pa and Junior Gorg) and Goelz and Steve Whitmire (Gonzo and Rizzo, Andy and Randy Pig, Stinky and Jake, Mew and Rugby).
• The Rat Pack
• The Royal Shakespeare Company (throw a metaphorical dart at your average group of British actors over thirty. 99% of them put in a stint at the RSC.)
• The Three Stooges
• Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg

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