[…]didn't teach me everything he knew; but he developed this kind of basic format for my father's television show with The Silhouettes, with the type of comedy number. And he laid the foundations for that show which last virtually in that form all my father's life. I changed it a bit, I'm jumping a hea[…]
[…], and then we had a very good time with it afterwards talking with it.Derek Threadgall 24:04 You don't appear to go too much on analysing comedy.Unknown Speaker 24:13 Now I don't believe in There's a great saying analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and t[…]
[…] it's a good story. So Jimmy said, "Well, it's a comedy. I mean, I don't see anything offensive about the […]
[…] it wasn't a commercial, viable, nowhere for a writer to live on. It wasn't anything at all, it was something you knew some people watched. The first comedy shows I can recall on there was Bob Monkhouse and Dennis Goodwin kind of things. But it was nothing like, radio was still the big work place, w[…]
[…]- Sidney Newman - er - who was then head of drama asked me if I would write something for the Wednesday Play - so we wrote that - but it was really a comedy - and Sidney said “I want a comedy” - so you know although it was a drama it was a …it was a dramatic comedy.Q: Yes - yes I’ve got somet[…]
[…]s of variety shows but he was always, he was an innovator of his day and in, at the field of entertainment. And he, I mean we did the first situation comedy, family situation comedy, soap I suppose you could call it, ever in 1948, I think it was, called Family Affairs.Mm.It was the story of the[…]
[…]bsp; guess we are talking about that. Now, I was fortunate because I didn't quite know how or why but I was asked to photograph at George Formby comedy at Ealing. And when they loaned me out to Ealing, and it was just it was a year before Michael Balcon went there, Basil Dean was still running […]
[…]out? We didn't know what an alternative wireless program might be like so there was no question that it was it was funny although we didn't listen to comedy very much but then we didn't listen to anything serious very much – music, Leonardo and his orchestra, Harry Engelman and his players.Colin Mof[…]
[…] association with Richard Waring, who was another very successful situation comedy writer. But they did revue writing in those days because […]
