Hale and Pace

Hale and Pace are an English comedy duo who have starred in several TV sketch series. Gareth Hale and Norman Pace met at Avery Hill teacher training college in Eltham South East London. They discovered much in common, particularly humour, and began playing clubs in a comedy band. One of the clubs that they most liked playing was "The Tramshed" in Woolwich. This developed into sketch writing, with show Don't Stop Now, It's Fundation. Their early TV break came on The Entertainers (1984), Pushing Up Daisies (1984) and the Saturday Gang (1986). They also appeared in The Young Ones three times, in the episodes Flood, Nasty and Time. After a single one-off special for London Weekend Television in Christmas 1986, they were given a full series...