IT is the moment when comedy and sexism breaks down – but it happens in strip clubs. It is the passion for free creative expression – but it retains the edge of business, professionalism. It's one of the longest and most successful brands in British comedy history – few people can recognize it now.
On the edge of Edinburgh this summer, comics gifts… will be honored in a series of film screenings and Q&A with its creator and Prime Mover Peter Peter Richardson. Richardson is the symbol behind the legendary comedy club The Comic Strip, which opened in 1980. When he and his star performers – Rik Mayall, Alexei Sayle, French and Saunders – created Channel 4's Comics Gift… a few years later, he could reasonably claim to be the man who brought to the TV show for the TV show.
It's a celebration of the iconic moment in British comedy history, and one might assume that Usher Hall in Edinburgh or Pleasance Grand in 750 seats has been put on hold as host. But one might assume that it is wrong. “When I started [showing these films] About a year ago, Richardson told me, “We don't have the money to promote them. So we're going to get to the theater and about 30 people read the idea we're going there somehow. Having 30 people in a 300-seat movie theater can be hard work.”
Gifts of Comics… Three series were conducted on Channel 4 from 1982 to 1988, then moved to the BBC in the early 90s and then returned to Channel 4 for a one-time special, the latest in 2016. However, this is not a big name in comedy, for example, the same people as young people, the same players as young people and the same players and the same time and the same play in the broadcast.
Jennifer Saunders in the Comic Gift: War. Photo: RGR Collection/Alamy
“It's not good TV because it's not repetitive, TV is about repeating a formula that people can understand it well,” Richardson admits. “Even comedy?” Mayall, one of the show’s stars, believes it shouldn’t be called a comic, and “funny movies” might be more appropriate. In fact, the series is – like the most recent page 9, an anthology show with a different tone, an independent film that is united only by sensitivity, and the performers who bring them to the screen.
“I told Channel 4 that these performers are so great that they don't need to play one-dimensional roles. They can play all kinds of roles. One week, they can be a heavy metal band, and next week they can be famous for five.” You could call it bad TV because you don't see more TV, but as it evolves, it has become a collection of very memorable one-time moments, which is what people remember now. ”
The performers also include Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Plans and Richardson himself, including the spinning support cast including Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane. At the time, they set the dazzling scene of the British comedy world. It all started with comedy shops, strip clubs and the anarchy headquarters of recently called “alternative comedy.” Richardson's coup was picking the most exciting voices of that generation and then transporting them to another strip club, less anarchy, and a few blocks on the road: Raymond Revuebar. Here, with financial support from Michael White, producer of Rock Horror Pictures, he opened a comic club—a name that seems obvious, although Edmondson said the “new depression club” is close.
The year since 1980-1981, comics are the hipster and hottest comedy nights in town. “Raymond Revuebar's bouncers are a simple rule of thumb for whom they are directed,” Sell later wrote. “If they think about shaving, they are sent to a stripper; if they smell beer, they come to us.” Celebrities piled up: Bianca Jagger, Dustin Hoffman. Robin Williams comes and asks for a performance to impress his guest, David Bowie. Sail gave him 15 minutes. Williams said: “I told me [Bowie] I'll do it for an hour. “Sel: “You can't. “Williams: “I will buy a club!” “Sel: “We don't own it. It belongs to a fluffy porn writer. “The buzz even reached the page of London Book Review, and critics pointed out: “In a few seconds, [Sayle] There are audiences agape. It seems that most of them have never been called c.
One-time moment… Alexei Sayle isn't you killing my brother? Photo: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy
Then, Channel 4 comes, seeking cutting-edge talent to help push new broadcasters to the country’s radio waves. Richardson was given to Carte Blanche. “They said, ‘What do you want to do?’ I said, “I want to make six different movies. ''''''The first, five were crazy in Dorset, spreading on the opening night of the station, and Enid Blyton's attitude was controversial around Enid Blyton's attitude. But five angry no Richardson said this summer is on the edge. “Peeing from racism and sexism [in that way] He said it no longer existed. This is not an interesting question, like when we did this in the 80s. ”
One option might be to re-edit the episode – it's a course of action, with Richardson, 73, freely indulging in Edinburgh's performances blending together. Don't enjoy the glory of his young success for him. “We did something, re-examine the movie and said, '30 years later, they need some adjustments.” Because things are getting faster now. “The West's Fist-Deceptive Traveler Checks “A little cut.” The late favorite four were in the car, too. The show's artificial Hollywood movie made the movie of the Miner's Strike, a scene in the strike. The man won the Montreux Comedy Award for Golden Rose and starred in Richardson (the only performer who appeared in each episode), playing Al Pacino, who played Arthur Scargill. He laughed, “I can do better now because I'm working with John Sessions on Stella Street.” “So, he said, now slipping into the convincing Italian-American accent, “I can do it.” ”
Stella Street is another in Richardson's TV hits, and when the comics show up, his life's work is on hold anyway. Even though he is a working comedian, Richardson is an external limitation of Nigel's mastermind, an amateur filmmaker and a child who wants to be the filmmaker himself. With the help of comics, he made the movie released: Super Grass in 1985 and ate the rich two years later. Other TV shows include the Red Nose of Courage, which tells the story of John Major’s flight from the circus to Parliament, and the 2011 pursuit of Tony Blair, imagining the escaped EX-PM accused of a series of murders.
Both will be screened on “The Edge,” comedian Robin Ince, and special guests including Sayle and Allen. Richardson is modest about the achievements of bringing these 30 years of film to screen. “I always thought we were the new Ealing comedy. [Ealing Studios at its peak] About 150 movies have been produced in 20 years, about 15 of which have been remembered. Therefore, our strike rate is not bad. We made some slippers, but it was really nice to have at least one or two of each series. ”
“These performers are so great that they don’t need to play one-dimensional roles”… Nigel Planer and Dawn French in the car of four men. Photo: RGR Collection/Alamy
Indeed, some are carved in the heart of the writer – especially the bad news tour, and there is more bad news, the show’s two-part heavy metal deception predated this is the spine faucet, and ended up performing live on stage with Edmondson, Mayall, Mayall and Co, under the beer glass, at the 1986 Rock Festival at Castle Donington.
Richardson is not enough to get along with the coverage of comic presents and admits that as a bloody sitcom rejection, he is an unfortunate auteur of his own. He was delighted to bring the remade film to Edinburgh, a city that in the past, and he and Planer used to tour as Dexy's midnight runner as support law. “Host Rowland complained that we didn't do new material in every show,” he said.
There is no expectation of new material in these screenings, but a new experience. “It's a great thing to show them in the cinema. You don't usually share comedy TV with your audience, and that changes the whole experience: people laugh around you. We found out there is yes Audiences across the country want to watch these movies on the big screen and talk about them. What we created 30 or 40 years ago is still causing laughter, which is great. I like it. ”
Comic Gifts… On the Edge Is Tonics in Edinburgh on 2, 3, 8, 9 and October 10