Editing Double act (section)

===1970s===
[[File:Lo chiamavano Trinità.png|thumb|300px|[[Terence Hill and Bud Spencer]]]]
Internationally the most popular double act of the 1970s was the Italian duo [[Terence Hill and Bud Spencer]]. The team had already made three straight westerns together during the 1960s but turned their act towards slapstick in their fourth (''[[They Call Me Trinity]]'', 1970), with massive success.

Light entertainment in Britain in the 1970s was dominated by Morecambe and Wise, who enjoyed impressive ratings, especially on their Christmas specials. Although Mike and Bernie Winters's popularity declined, The Two Ronnies' success grew while Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sporadically produced acclaimed work, in particular, their controversial recordings as [[Derek and Clive]] from 1976 to 1978.

The mid-to-late 1970s saw a resurgence in American double acts. ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' (1974) featured a memorable performance by [[Mel Brooks]] and [[Harvey Korman]] (who later teamed up again in Brooks's 1981 follow-up ''[[History of the World, Part I]]''). ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', first broadcast in 1975, provided an outlet for comedians to appear in sketches as double acts and continues to do so. It was here that [[Dan Aykroyd]] and [[John Belushi]] honed their characters [[The Blues Brothers]], who were soon pulled to fame in the 1980 buddy movie of the same name. [[Gene Wilder]] and [[Richard Pryor]] also embarked on a string of successful buddy films in the 1970s. [[Cheech & Chong]] also gained massive popularity during this time.

Occasionally, the straight-man/funny-man dynamic appeared in unexpected contexts between characters not normally thought of as comics. This often appeared in the [[James T. Kirk]] ([[William Shatner]])/[[Spock|Mr. Spock]] ([[Leonard Nimoy]]) relationship in several episodes of the original ''[[Star Trek]]'' series.