Author: Simon Dunn
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The Inception Of 20th Century Coyote
This is a very small thing, marking an historical moment in the development of what became known as Alternative Comedy in the early 1980s. It’s easy to forget that 20th Century Coyote was more than just the early name of the Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson double-act, and was in fact the name of a…
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Punk Shocker!
A Rude, Crude Team Out To Make Mayhem Four months before The Young Ones was first broadcast, it was already making sensationalist headlines in the tabloids. Take this fabulous single page spread for example, from The Daily Mirror on Saturday 28th August 1982. Here’s the text if you can’t quite make it out. ONLY days…
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Rik’s Comedy Of Errors
This is the story of how Rik Mayall accidentally broke Jon Plowman’s arm while throwing him in to a swimming pool. But we’ll get back to that. The Oxford And Cambridge Shakespeare Company was the brainchild of, among others, Jonathan Miller. The company staged Shakespeare productions, which toured the UK and then the USA. In…
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Contemporaneous The Young Ones Clippings
So much has been written about The Young Ones over the years, I thought it might be interesting to look back at what was being written about it during the first few weeks that it aired. On the morning of the debut of Demolition, this write up appeared in The Daily Mirror, written by Ken…
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All Night Long
Funny how the memory plays tricks on you. For the longest time I keep remembering a mid-1990s 8.30pm sitcom starring Keith Barron, working in an all-night bakery. Sometimes I forget what it was called, and it takes ages to recall the title … but my mind keeps coming back to it. All Night Long, written…
