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Ben Thompson
Sunshine on Putty: The Golden Age of British Comedy from Vic Reeves to The Office
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Table of Contents
Introduction
‘Successful comedy often anticipates future newsreel coverage’
1. Was the Reeves/
Office
era really a golden age, and if so, how and why did it come about and what were its exact parameters?
2. What in the name of Bob Monkhouse’s stolen jokebook does ‘Sunshine on Putty’ mean?
What Henri Bergson has to say about all this
At Last, The Theodore Hook in 1812 Show
Chronological Timeline
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1 On the Launchpad
The Reeves and Mortimer despot/democrat trajectory is about to commence
3. Primary Ross/Reeves interface
2. Seven days in the sitcom wilderness: ‘Listen very carefully, I will say this only once’
1. Getting Chiggy with it
…Lift off! ‘Twisted movements…little puppets…light breezes blowing gently across the floor’
2 ‘Don’t Mention the War’
Conflict aftermath and comedic rebirth, from The Goons to Richard and Judy
Where there’s armed conflict and the imminent threat of violent death, there’s hope
Goon, but not forgotten
Hugh Greene was their valet
The amazing
Let The People Sing
dead cow prophecy
‘What did you do in the comedy war, Daddy?’
Another way in which Margaret Thatcher was the mother-in-law of alternative comedy, besides the obvious one
3 Morris, Iannucci, Coogan, Lee, Herring and Marber
a.k.a. The new school of linguistic exactitude
On The Hour.
because fact into News(s)peak won’t go
Saying what the thing itself is
Steve Coogan in flashback
The
On The Hour
ice pack commences its break-up
Stewart Lee’s side of the story
Patrick Marber’s side of the story
Knowing him, knowing them
A boot of non-fact grinding into the face of news for ever –
The Day Today
hits the ground running
The
Day Today
diaspora
4 The Great Mythological Armour Shortage of 1993-4
Parts One to Five One
Two. Variety is the spice of life…except when it isn’t
Three. That whole ‘comedy is the new rock ‘n’ roll’ farrago
Four
Five. Bill Hicks in the afterlife, a.k.a. that whole ‘comedian as martyr’ delusion
5 Constructing the Citadel
The comedy edifice needs bricks and mortar, just like any other (in five more parts) 1. The Management
(a) Avalon’s testosterone vale
(b) Off The Kerb: Mr Cresswell remembers when all this were nobbut fields
(c) All the way with PBJ
2. Diversification
(a) Acting
(b) Writing novels
3. The Edinburgh Festival: Homage to Caledonia
4. The British Comedy Awards
5. Back at comedy base camp
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