Movie: How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

Top 10 Billed Cast

Clive Anderson
Clive Anderson

Mark Arden
Mark Arden

Ed Bye
Ed Bye

Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Edmondson

Ben Elton
Ben Elton

(Archive Footage)

Stephen Frost
Stephen Frost

Nick Helm
Nick Helm

Richard Herring
Richard Herring

Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson

Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson

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    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.

  • Release Date

    2018-05-26

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
  • Tagline

    Once in every lifetime, comes a sitcom like this.

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    English
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