Exploration of how the cultural characteristics of British Comedy programming for cinema, television, and radio developed since 1900. Traces the evolution of comedic forms and surveys contemporary genres: sketch, broken, sitcom, satire, stand-up, improv, the impressionists, and "sittrag." Emphasis on the making of comedy in an ethnically and culturally diverse society. (F,S,U)
Attributes: HM, SCE, TIII
3 Credits