Ausschnitte aus dem aktuellen Programm “Mist, mir geht´s gut” aus dem Kölner Senftöpfchen Theater

Goody Goody Yum Yum
It’s forty years since the first episode of „The Goodies“ was broadcast on the BBC, but you wouldn’t know it. For some (t)reason, the BBC rarely acknowledges the existence of one of it’s most popular comedy programmes. Originally entitled „Super Chaps 3“, „The Goodies“ were concieved, written and performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. All three were Cambridge graduates, and had come to comedy through the „Cambridge Footlights“ comedy revue society, where they had met and worked with John Cleese, Eric Idle and Graham …

Steve Dix stellt uns heute eine weitere Comedy-Legende vor: den großartigen Dave Allen – der Comedian im Portrait plus drei Videoclips

Goodnight, and May Your God Go With You
In the early 70’s comedy wasteland of working men’s clubs, tired mother-in-law jokes and greasy perms, one comedian stood out head and shoulders above the rest : I speak of Dave Allen, an Irishman who became famous in the UK and Australia due to his brand of cutting wit and observational humour.

Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson first met in the late 1970′s, at Manchester University, where they were studying drama together. Under the name „20th Century Coyote“, they started performing anarchic comedy plays together. Hearing about the fledgling alternative comedy scene in London, they moved down and became part of the „Comic Strip“ club, which produced a group of performers who would become synonymous with alternative comedy in the UK.
Their first main exposure together (not counting Mayall’s solo appearances as „Kevin Turvey“, a rather naiive Brummie character) was in 1981 in …

Unsere wöchentliche Video-Kolummne Newspresso macht heute und nächsten Montag kurz Pause. Als Ersatz haben wir aber ein richtiges Schmankerl aus dem Archiv gezaubert: Der Must-See-Comedy-Guide. In diesem Reader findet ihr eine ganze Reihe an Portraits aus der Comedy-Welt. Parrallel dazu gibts etliche Video-Clips die euch die besprochenen Legenden in Bewegung zeigen. Aber guckt selbst…

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Two memories :
Number One : October 1979 : walking into Martin’s the newsagents after school, and discovering that all six shelves of the paperback section were filled with a book with a strange cover, and an even stranger name : “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”. The world turns upside down. (Mind you, at that age, your world tends to turn upside-down with considerable regularity, due to girls, music and frantic wanking schedules)
Number Two : Sitting at work in Deutz over the road from the Köln Arena, …

It’s a familiar opening title, but somehow things are subtly different : could the mysterious tag “Banksy” on billboards have something to do with it? “The Simpsons” titles go on, reaching the point where the entire family are on the sofa in front of the TV – a point where the show’s famous “couch gag” is usually unveiled.
Suddenly the camera pulls back to reveal this is a poster in a nightmarish 3rd world slave labour camp, where the show is produced. The oppressive regime responsible is shown to …

Für unseren Comedy Guide “Must See” hat Steve Dix, unsere britische Comedy-Enzylopädie, aus gegebenem Anlass ein Portrait der Slapstick-Legende Norman Wisdom geschrieben. Der begnadete Komiker, stilprägend für Größen wie Lee Evans, starb am Montag im Alter von 95 Jahren.

Das heutige Must See dreht sich um Kenny Everett. Mit der “Kenny Everett Video Show” sorgte er für einigen Aufruhr im britischen Fernsehen der 70er und 80er Jahre. Mit seinem manischen Humor und ausgefeilten technischen Tricks hatte er schon die Radio-Comedy revolutioniert. Nun nahm er sich das Fernsehen vor und schuff eine Kult-TV-Serie die sich immer am Rande des machbaren bewegte.
Steve Dix stellt euch den großartigen Kenny Everett vor. Garniert mit einer Reihe sehr lustiger Ausschnitte aus seinem Werk.

Endlich mal wieder ein Artikel für unseren Comedy-Guide Must See. Steve Dix, Brite, Comedian und Autor stellt uns heute den irischen Stand-Upper Ed Byrne vor.