How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

90 mins | Comedy, Documentary | May 26, 2018

This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

90 mins | Comedy, Documentary | May 26, 2018

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.

Producers	North One Television
Original title	How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
Directors	Sean Doherty
Writers

Cast

Clive Anderson

as

Mark Arden

as

Ed Bye

as

Adrian Edmondson

as

Ben Elton

as (Archive Footage)

Stephen Frost

as

Nick Helm

as

Richard Keith Herring

as

Charlie Higson

as

Paul Jackson

as

Elis James

as

Mark Lawson

as

Helen Lederer

as

John Lloyd

as

Rik Mayall

as (Archive Footage)

Lise Mayer

as

Lloyd Peters

as

Sally Phillips

as Narrator (Voice)

Nigel Planer

as

Geoff Posner

as

Rowland Rivron

as

Christopher Ryan

as

Alexei Sayle

as

Arthur Smith

as