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Cambridge is known for the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club (more commonly just "The Footlights" or "The Cambridge Footlights"), which puts on a yearly comedy revue and has featured some of Britain's best-loved comic writers and actors, including Peter Cook, half of [[Monty Python]], [[Douglas Adams]] (author of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''), [[Emma Thompson]] (actress, ''Remains of the Day''), Clive Anderson (presenter, ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]''), and John Oliver (''[[The Daily Show]]'').
The Footlights have also given birth to some of Britain's best comedic pairings/groups, including [[Stephen Fry]] and [[Hugh Laurie]] (''A Bit of Fry and Laurie'', but better known these days as the guy from ''[[QI]]'' and the guy from ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'',
Both universities are actually composed of semi-independent colleges, which accept applicants individually.
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There is a rather fierce rivalry between the two universities, members of each referring to the other as 'The Other Place'. This rivalry is most apparent in Varsity matches, which are any type of competition between the two, most often sporting (e.g. the boat race) but also covering various events such as the annual Tolkien quiz.
Naturally both of them have a [[Pretentious Latin Motto]], though there was nothing pretentious about them when they were
See also [[Strawman U]]. Compare [[Ivy League for Everyone]] in US works and [[Tokyo University]] in Japanese ones.
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