Will Judge (1883-1960), billed as 'The Norfolk Comedian', was a well-known comedy- variety and pantomime artist for thirty years in the first half of the 20th century. Although he performed all over the British Isles, occasionally in London, he was best known in East Anglia and the North of England; at this period, before the spread of radio and the invention of television, comedians were often 'local' and humour in the North could be very different from that in the South (for example, Max Miller was never as popular in the North of England, while Jimmy Learmouth was most popular in his native Lancashire).

Most comedians included song and dance in their acts and these clogs were used by Will Judge in his act. Clogs, leather lace-ups with wooden soles, were worn by workmen throughout England; clog dancing was a recognised form of English folk dancing and in the north of England, theatres and clubs held clog dancing competitions, the judges stationed under the stage or a table the better to judge the complex rhythms.

He played Dame in pantomime and married Gertrude Orchard, who played Principal Boy. His Dame characters, while obviously exaggerated, inclined towards the 'elegant' or homely rather than the grotesque.
Clog dancing was a traditional dance form that became popular in the North of England in music halls and variety theatres. Dance competitions, both in theatres and clubs, were commonplace.