Editing Marty Feldman (section)

===Early career===
Leaving school at 15, Feldman worked at the [[Dreamland Margate|Dreamland]] funfair in [[Margate]],<ref name="six" /> but had dreams of a career as a [[jazz]] trumpeter, and performed in the first group in which tenor saxophonist [[Tubby Hayes]] was a member.<ref name="Chilton">{{cite news |first=Martin |last=Chilton |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8894915/Marty-Feldman-The-Biography-Of-A-Comedy-Legend-by-Robert-Ross-review.html |title=Marty Feldman – The Biography Of A Comedy Legend by Robert Ross: review |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=17 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119071340/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8894915/Marty-Feldman-The-Biography-Of-A-Comedy-Legend-by-Robert-Ross-review.html |archive-date=19 November 2015}}</ref> Feldman joked that he was "the world's worst trumpet player."<ref name="Chilton" /> By the age of 20, he had decided to pursue a career as a comedian.

Although his early performing career was undistinguished, Feldman became part of a comedy act—Morris, Marty and Mitch—who made their first television appearance on the [[BBC]] series ''Showcase'' in April 1955.<ref name="Oliver" /> Later in the decade, Feldman worked on the scripts for ''[[Educating Archie]]'' in both its radio and television incarnations, with [[Chesney and Wolfe|Ronald Chesney]] and later, Ronald Wolfe.

In 1954, Feldman met [[Barry Took]] while both were working as performers, and with Took, he eventually formed an enduring writing partnership which lasted until 1974.<ref name="Oliver" /> They wrote a few episodes of ''[[The Army Game]]'' (1960) and the bulk of ''[[Bootsie and Snudge]]'' (1960–62), both situation comedies made by [[Granada Television]] for the [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] network. For [[BBC Radio]] they wrote ''[[Round the Horne]]'' (1964–67), their best-remembered comedy series, which starred [[Kenneth Horne]] and [[Kenneth Williams]].<ref name="six" /> (The last series of ''Round the Horne,'' in 1968, was written by others.) This work placed Feldman and Took 'in the front rank of comedy writers', according to [[Denis Norden]].<ref name="six" />

Feldman then became the chief writer and script editor on ''[[The Frost Report]]'' (1966–67). With John Law, he co-wrote the much-shown [[Class sketch|"Class" sketch]], in which [[John Cleese]], [[Ronnie Barker]] and [[Ronnie Corbett]] faced the audience, with their descending order of height, suggesting their relative social status as upper class (Cleese), middle class (Barker) and working class (Corbett).<ref name="six" />