How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
“Once in every lifetime, comes a sitcom like this.”
2018•1h 30m•7.0•Released
DocumentaryComedy
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.
Director
Sean Doherty
Languages
English
Studio
North One Television
Cast
Clive Anderson
Mark Arden
Ed Bye
Adrian Edmondson
Ben Elton
(Archive Footage)
Stephen Frost
Nick Helm
Richard Herring
Charlie Higson
Paul Jackson
Elis James
Mark Lawson
Helen Lederer
Self
John Lloyd
Rik Mayall
(Archive Footage)
Production
Company
North One Television
Producer
Zosia Alchimowicz
Producer
Sean Doherty
Producer
Nigel Alred
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