It might not be a name which springs readily to mind now, but in the 1960s Harry Worth, born on this date in1917, was a major TV comic whose genial, bumbling persona was forever frustrating petty officialdom.
If that suggests Tony Hancock, however, he had none of Hancock's pomposity or aggression: like Jacques Tati, Worth was guileless, an innocent who never seemed out to cause trouble; it just seemed to happen around him anyway. In Worth's case the cause was a cheerfully circumlocutory way of putting things which inevitably tied the listener in knots, as his utterances were governed by a logic comprehensible to no one but the mild and agreeable speaker himself. (Arthur Haynes was perhaps more closely linked to Hancock, and has been described as ITV's answer to Hancock, though Haynes's tramp character was several notches down from Hancock's TV persona socially.)