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History of British Comedy presented by David Mitchell
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Overview: In a landmark Radio 2 series, David Mitchell traces the history of British comedy from Music Hall to the modern day.

    Featuring a host of all-new interviews with performers, agents, producers, academics and comedy writers – plus some of the funniest archive ever brought together in the name of entertainment.

      Four part series in which David Mitchell traces the history of British humour, from 1913 to the present day, Each episode focuses on a different period of comedy history:

        Part 1, 1913 to 1938:

          David Mitchell on music hall ‘comedy turns’, early films and radio becoming a mass medium.

        Part 2, WWII to the 1960s.

          David Mitchell on the age of the catchphrase, innuendo and the birth of the modern sitcom.

        Part 3, The 1960s and 70s.

          David Mitchell on the age of the Carry On films, classic sitcoms and the satire boom.

        Part 4, The 1980s to the Present Day.

          David Mitchell on alternative humour, stadium stand-up and the future.

Genre: Non Fiction, Audiobooks, Arts, Culture, Comedy, British Humour, History.

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History of British Comedy

    David Mitchell presenter
    Phil Collinge writer, producer
    Published by BBC Radio 2, 2014.

      David Mitchell on alternative humour, stadium stand-up and the future. In a new four-part programme, David Mitchell traces the history of British humour.

      In the first episode, David looks at how the Variety Theatres were briefly closed and then opened again to boost morale and how radio became a national lifeline.

      This was also the age of the catchphrase — and David asks how and why these devices came about, as well as tracing the lineage of ‘I don’t believe it’ and ‘You can’t see the join’ to those early catchphrases that were on everyone’s lips! The programme also looks at the venue that gave many performers their first post-war start as well – the Windmill Theatre – where the comic’s job was to give the bill some respectability in between the nude tableaux that the entirely male audience had come to see! Tough yes – but it enabled performers to learn their trade in a way that wasn’t available again until the arrival of comedy clubs in the 1980s. This is the era when The Goon Show changed everything – but also when Take It From Here, Variety Bandbox and the various forces programmes became a vital part of everyone’s lives – and those changes ushered in the first signs of comedy that only appealed to certain generations. David also looks at a series which started on the ‘Light Programme’, ran for half an hour a week and changed how we consumed our narrative comedy forever.

      In the second part, David investigates humour from the Second World War to the early Sixties.

      In the third episode, David looks at British comedy in the 1960s and 1970s, everything from Round the Horne and the Carry On films, to Monty Python, Beyond the Fringe, Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies — and more!

      In the final episode, David looks at British comedy from the 1980s to the present day: 70s escapism gave way to 80s cynicism, and this final episode in the series explores why comedy changed suddenly instead of gradually – and the role Channel 4 played in that change. This was the era of The Young Ones and Blackadder, but was alternative comedy really something new? Post World War Two, the old order was actively challenged by those seeking a new approach – and even before that, the Crazy Gang had almost set the template for ‘alternative’. Part 4 also looks at the 90s and beyond when stars who’d grown up on their ‘new wave’ predecessors also saw the best of what had gone before them. In a time when the nation’s divisions were less obvious, so it was with comedy. And as ever – there was change. We hear about stadium stand-up, sitcoms without laughter tracks, and big screen comedy successes.

      And David asks what new methods of communication will mean to British Comedy – new portals for the latest ‘experimental live improvisational sit-com featuring a cast of ‘train spotters’, or opportunities for comedy consumers to discover new laughs in classic clips?

Download Instructions:
http://corneey.com/wLUDHR — David Mitchell: History of British Comedy 01 1913 to 1938 (2014)
http://corneey.com/wLUDHU — David Mitchell: History of British Comedy 02 WWII to the 1960s (2014)
http://corneey.com/wLUDHP — David Mitchell: History of British Comedy 03 The 1960s and 1970s (2014)
http://corneey.com/wLUDHD — David Mitchell: History of British Comedy 04 The 1980s to the Present Day (2014)




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