How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

Overview

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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Cast

Clive Anderson
Clive Anderson
Mark Arden
Ed Bye
Ed Bye
Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Edmondson
Ben Elton
Ben Elton
(Archive Footage)
Stephen Frost
Stephen Frost
Nick Helm
Nick Helm
Richard Herring
Richard Herring
Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson
Paul Jackson
Elis James
Elis James
Mark Lawson
Mark Lawson

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