Comedy Songs: The Pop Years
Documentary which traces the modern history of the comedy pop song, from the Goons through the 1960s satire boom, the 1970s golden period of Monty Python and the naff 1980s.
Documentary tracing the modern history of the comedy pop song from the birth of the charts in 1952 to its reinvention in the new millennium.
We discover that George Martin was the missing link between the Goons and the Beatles, that the Barron Knights invented the parody song and that the Two Ronnies were not big fans of Not the Nine O'Clock News.
Almost everyone appears in the comedy song's chequered history of peaks and troughs, from the 1960s satire boom to the 1970s golden period of Monty Python and Billy Connolly and on through the wilderness years of 1980s novelty naffness and the genre's redemption in alternative comedy and the likes of Victoria Wood and Alexei Sayle.
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Mon 22 Dec 2008 21:00- Tue 23 Dec 2008 02:10
- Fri 16 Jan 2009 22:30
- Sat 17 Jan 2009 01:55
- Sat 14 Feb 2009 23:55
- Tue 16 Jun 2009 21:00
- Mon 14 Dec 2009 23:30
- Tue 15 Dec 2009 03:00
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