Category: British
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Red Dwarf: The Reviews Are In
Here’s a couple of contemporaneous reviews for the first series of Red Dwarf, in February of 1988. The first is from the 18th, by Ann Mann in The Stage. And here’s another, this from a couple of weeks later, on the 28th, by David Bradbury in The Sunday Mirror.
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Ed Bye In His Own Words
It’s depressingly easy to forget the influence and contribution TV directors have made to comedy over the years. It’s not like the movies, which revere the director, and forget the writers, it’s the other way round really. So it was nice to stumble across this interview with Ed Bye in The Stage from the 3rd…
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The Comic Strip Clipped
There’s something fasincating about charting the development of things through their contemporaneous newspaper clippings. So let’s take a wander through the early years of The Comic Strip, and it’s beginnings in Soho. On the 25th September 1980, news broke that a contentious row about the chosen venue of the new Comic Strip had been resolved.…
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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…
