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- Not The Nine O’Clock News was the first major programme showcasing the talent of the so-called 'alternative' comedy performers. Unlike the Bernard Mannings of the world, the performers didn’t rely on boob gags and mother in law jokes to get them through the day.
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Originally shown as a comedy alternative to the Nine O'Clock News on BBC1, it features satirical sketches on then-current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, and spoof television formats.
Oct 18, 2019 · Alternative comedy would truly come of age three years later with the intersecting casts of The Young Ones and The Comic Strip, but it was Not the Nine O’Clock News that paved the way,...
- Gerard Gilbert
Oct 17, 2007 · Not The Nine O'Clock News gave the world alternative comedy and made the media scene we have today. Its huge popularity was ensured by the fact that sketches like the telethon...
Not the Nine O'Clock News is a British television comedy sketch show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. Originally shown as a comedy alternative ...
- 48 min
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- George Pollen
Jul 20, 2013 · Without Not The Nine O’Clock News, there’d have been no The Young Ones and, ultimately, an entirely different and exceptionally duller comedy scene today.
Jan 4, 2019 · Not the Nine O’Clock News deviated from a free-style sketch comedy format and returned to a much more conventional sketch style, using film clips and satire to give a spoof of the news and pop culture of the day.
Not the Nine O’Clock News is definitely one of these shows. Despite a lot of the sketches being rooted firmly in the political and cultural zeitgeist of the late seventies and early eighties, the jokes and satire can easily be transplanted into current times, and the rest is just timelessly funny.
