Comedy is woven into the fabric of British life, reflecting the nation’s pleasures, preoccupations and anxieties. This chronological survey follows its development from the slapstick of Chaplin, through Tony Hancock’s post-war gloom, the insinuations of Benny Hill and the Carry On films, and the alternative comedy of the Thatcher years, to today’s standups, and explores the way it has embodied our changing attitudes to sex, race and class.
From the slapstick comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, the surrealism of Spike Milligan and Monty Python, and the golden age of political incorrectness helmed by Benny Hill, to the alternative scene that burst forth following the punk movement, the hedonistic joy of Absolutely Fabulous, the lacerating scorn of Jimmy Carr, Ricky Gervais, and Jo Brand and the meteoric rise of socially conscious stand up today: comedy can be many things, and it is a cultural phenomenon has come to define Britain like few others.
In Different Times, David Stubbs charts the superstars that were in on the gags, the unsung heroes hiding in the wings and the people who ended up being the butt of the joke. Comedians and their work speak to and of their time, drawing upon and moulding Britons' relationship with their national history, reflecting us as a people, and, simply, providing raucous laughs for millions of people around the world.
Different Times is a joyous, witty and insightful paean to British comedy.
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