

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018-05-26 · 90 min · ★ 7.0
This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.
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- Directors
- Sean Doherty
- Production companies
- North One Television
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Status
- Released
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Clive Anderson
Ed Bye
Adrian Edmondson
Ben Elton(Archive Footage)
Stephen Frost
Nick Helm
Richard Herring
Paul Jackson
Elis James
Mark Lawson
Helen LedererSelf
John Lloyd
Rik Mayall(Archive Footage)
Sally PhillipsNarrator (Voice)
Nigel Planer
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