Promotion
Use code CYBER2024 for 30% off sitewide + free shipping over $30
A Great, Silly Grin
The British Satire Boom Of The 1960s
Contributors
Formats and Prices
Price
$24.99Format
Format:
Trade Paperback $24.99This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around May 29, 2003. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.
Also available from:
A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s. From there it is a short trip to the coffee bars of London, where the appearance of a scruffy yellow pamphlet calling itself Private Eye overturned the way Britons looked at their world. The apotheosis of the satire boom, and the progenitor of so many American comedy acts, was the groundbreaking BBC television program “That Was the Week That Was,” which combined elements of sketch comedy and evening-news broadcast to produce something essential, hilarious, and, on occasion, scandalous. Humphrey Carpenter’s history of this tumultuous and exciting era introduces us not only to the people involved in its creation–Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Michael Frayn, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, and David Frost–but also their routines and sketches.
Genre:
- On Sale
- May 29, 2003
- Page Count
- 408 pages
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780306812057
Newsletter Signup
By clicking ‘Sign Up,’ I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Hachette Book Group’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use