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| Preface | vii | |
| Prologue: Permission to speak | 3 | |
| Part 1 | I've got a viper in this box | |
| 1 | Doing silly turns | 17 |
| 2 | This suet and this sangfroid will get you nowhere | 30 |
| 3 | Joined at the hip | 44 |
| 4 | A little bit of something for everyone | 59 |
| 5 | Danny Kaye of Cambridge | 68 |
| 6 | At right-angles to all the comedy we'd heard | 81 |
| Part 2 | Boom | |
| 7 | Funnier than anything we had ever seen | 91 |
| 8 | It really is a Rolls | 116 |
| 9 | Satire was in | 128 |
| 10 | Fortnightly lampoon | 153 |
| 11 | Balls to the lot of them | 169 |
| 12 | A highly successful year for British satire | 186 |
| Part 3 | "The BBC moved in on the act" | |
| 13 | A mixture of News, Interview, Satire and Controversy | 201 |
| 14 | "Live" as hell | 216 |
| 15 | The death of deference | 237 |
| 16 | Sick jokes and lavatory humour | 247 |
| 17 | The party's over | 274 |
| Part 4 | Everyone is a satirist | |
| 18 | Swimming is out of fashion | 287 |
| 19 | I still think there is room for satire | 295 |
| 20 | Giggling into the sea | 309 |
| Curtain call: where are they now? | 335 | |
| Source Notes | 339 | |
| Bibliography | 373 | |
| Acknowledgements | 377 | |
| Index | 379 |
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Gunther Rindler
reviewed Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of The 1960s on September 06, 2008
Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of The 1960s
Remember many of these great fun British comedies...Faulty Towers was 1 of my favorites! My current favorite is "As Times Goes By" starring none other than Judy Dench
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Add Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of The 1960s, A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s. From there it is a short trip to the coffee bars , Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of The 1960s to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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