When Comedy Changed Forever
- TV documentary
- BBC Three
- 2006
- 1 episode
The history of British comedy from the 1970s to today, showing how the work of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer provided a link between old-style acts such as Bernard Manning and modern phenomena like Little Britain. Also features Roy Walker, Bruce Dessau, Jonathan Ross, Matt Lucas, Simon Day and more.
Press clippings
There has been heated debate on internet forums this week regarding the BBC3 programme When Comedy Changed Forever. This one-off, 60 minuter put forward the thesis that modern television comedy owes an enormous debt to Vic Reeves Big Night Out. Taking this assumption as its intellectual starting point, the rest of the programme was then bolted round the idea, and presented to us via some ugly graphics that were meant to denote the different ages of TV comedy as distinct geographical locations.
Jack Kibble-White, Off The Telly, 17th March 2006