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1980 ➤ Rik and pals detonate a timebomb beneath another kind of strip for Soho
On this autumn day 30 years ago, a handful of comics in their twenties broke free from the bear-pit formula of the Comedy Store, which had opened in London in 1979, modelled on its Hollywood precursor....
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What larks! Festive fun and games and British ways to make merry
❚ UNLIKE 21st-CENTURY DANCING, when the quadrille was introduced at Almack’s Assembly Rooms in 1815, its steps were notoriously difficult to perform correctly. This luxurious salon in King Street, St...
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➤ Happy golden anniversary to Lord Gnome, Glenda Slagg, Topes, O’Booze,...
❚ HOW ONE MAGAZINE has enriched a nation’s vocabulary over 50 years is evidenced by the enormous page at Wikipedia, detailing euphemisms for sex (“Ugandan discussions”) and drunkenness (“tired and...
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➤ David Frost salutes TW3, the TV show that pioneered satire 50 years ago...
❚ THE MOST INFLUENTIAL TV SERIES in British history – the lodestar for all future comedy, and more – won no fulsome retrospective from the BBC on its 50th anniversary today. Only a brief item on the...
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➤ Mad man dies after skewering the American Dream and bequeathing us Alfred E...
❚ THE CREATIVE GIANT WHO EDITED America’s most influential satirical magazine has died. From 1956 Al Feldstein took the circulation of Mad from 400,000 to a peak of 2,850,000, and spent 29 years not...
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