[…]archic and alternative than that.So you know the “Terry and June” era seemed to be very much over and we were looking at a very different approach to comedy. So I interviewed people like Paul Jackson and Jonathan Lynn, who wrote “Yes Minister” for example. And that was another item that went into th[…]
[…]l the sort of everything oiled between Mel and Rowan and Richard and all these, you know, big comic egos, basically. I mean, you know, the history of comedy in the 90s would have all of those elements in it. And there they were and I was wrangling them. But it was, it was, it was difficult from a ju[…]
BEHP 0694T Clyde Jeavons TranscriptClyde Jeavons [CJ] Murray Weston [MW] David Sharp [DS]Please note that there is some repetition between the first and second Interviews. DSMW: Well although we didn’t call our first interview the first one, with David Francis, this is our second interview with[…]
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[…]there; cycle back home for lunch, eat a hurried lunch in half an hour, and be back on the set by two o’clock. Erm..and we were making this er…musical comedy which was based on a play, with very old, but very experienced actors – Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge, who were at the time very popular,[…]
[…]s that's right. Yes, yes. Didn't, didn't Rob Wilton do drag too? No probably not, no he was very funny.Rodney Giesler:… there was an absolute mass of comedy programs you know like Merry-Go-Round and Ray’s a Laugh and Up the Pole, you know Yule and Maurice and all that stuff which is hopefully still […]
[…]. And the other, what's he called, was it Edward Kennedy, who used to do the, sort of done the master of the double tape. And. Oh, they were colossal comedy actors and actresses, those people and we just sort of took them for granted, didn't we? They were there, you know, you knew they were going to[…]
