He first appeared on stage in 1904 in Bournemouth,[2] and worked as a civil servant in the War Office before forming his own concert party in 1912.
[4] He served in the military in the First World War, and then toured the country in musical revues and the comedy Chu Chin Chow.
[5] Comber's first broadcasts were in excerpts from the show Clowns in Clover, and he made more regular appearances as a comedian on BBC radio from 1929, sometimes with Paul England, Claude Hulbert and Eddie Childs (later replaced by Arthur Clay, and subsequently by H. B. Longhurst) as "Those Four Chaps".
He also performed in a double act with Hulbert, and recorded light comedy songs, such as a cleaned-up version of "Barnacle Bill".
The BBC's entertainment programmes were broadcast from north Wales during the Second World War, and Comber died there, in Bangor, in 1942 aged 56.