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 of March 1994.
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