Comedy Songs - The Pop Years
- TV documentary
- BBC Four
- 2008
- 1 episode
Documentary which traces the modern history of the comedy pop song from the birth of the charts in 1952 to its reinvention in the new millennium. Features Victoria Wood, Nigel Planer, Rowland Rivron, David Quantick, Alexei Sayle and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Documentary
- Broadcast
- 2008
- Channel
- BBC Four
- Episodes
- 1
- Features
- Victoria Wood, Nigel Planer, Rowland Rivron, David Quantick, Alexei Sayle, Barry Cryer, David O'Doherty, Roger McGough and more
- Directors
- Chris Hill and Celia Wormley
- Producers
- Chris Hill, Celia Wormley, Gilly Hall and Steven D. Wright
- Companies
Documentary which traces 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 its redemption in alternative comedy and the likes of Victoria Wood and Alexei Sayle.
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- Studio
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Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 22nd December 2008 at 9pm on BBC Four
- Episode length
- 90 minutes
- All previous repeats
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- Friday 25th December 2009 at 12:40am on BBC2
- Monday 14th December 2009 at 11:30pm on BBC4
- Tuesday 16th June 2009 at 9:00pm on BBC4