Patricia Lockwood https://stephenjones.blog/2021/02/13/lockwood/

Dipping into the recent edition of the LRB, I described Alan Bennett and Patricia Lockwood as unlikely bedfellows. It’s a term that I’ve also used for

• John Betjeman and Jack Nicholson (fans of Chaplin’s A countess from Hong Kong)
• The Matthew Passion and Nina Hagen (reasons to learn German)
• In conducting: Boulez, Tennstedt, Rattle, Gardiner
• Klaus Tennstedt and Sophia Loren, Gary Kasparov and Elif Shafak (under Desert Island Discs)
• Moses and Marilyn Monroe (fellow stammerers)
• Reading Miles Davis’s autobiography in the voice of the Queen (“Listen with Motherfucker“).

And it occurs to me with Norman Wisdom, Mother Teresa, and polyphony in Albania, as well as Anna Mahler and Groucho Marx…

More naturally, one associates Brian with Stewie, and Li Manshan with Andy Capp.

Cf. Felicitous conjunctions, and Global audience.