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...ncourage the success of Shorter to placate the masses and divert them from political activity. Shorter is consistently monitored and manipulated by handlers con ...de|Flipside]] imprint. The disc included two of [[Peter Watkins]]'s short films: ''[[The Forgotten Faces]]'' (1961) and ''[[The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

...r in film, television, theatre and radio for over 55 years. He appeared in films including ''[[Take a Girl Like You (film)|Take A Girl Like You]]'' (1970) a ===1960s and 1970s===

| genre = [[Comedy]], [[satire]] ...comedy LP created in a recording studio". Sellers plays all of the roles, [satire|satirising]] the [[Social class in the United Kingdom|British class system]

...e series are thought to no longer exist, having been destroyed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as was [[Lost television broadcast|the policy at the time]] ...[working-class]] life comparatively realistically. It addressed racial and political issues that had been becoming increasingly prevalent in British society. Mi

...eenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British [[satire boom]] of the 1960s, and he was associated with the [[anti-establishment]] comedic movement tha ...nce]]. Following the success of the show, the duo appeared together in the films ''[[The Wrong Box]]'' (1966) and ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]'' (1

==''Private Eye'' and the satire boom== ...Gumboot North. After the strip folded, Rushton still contributed a weekly political cartoon to the ''Liberal News'' until mid-1962.

...wkey]], the designer responsible for many of Deighton's book covers in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/cultur ...writers Len Deighton and Brian Duffy have done is to transform the highly political and one-dimensional Joan Littlewood theatre piece into timeless—and painf

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...= [[Sketch comedy]]<br />[[Surreal humour|Surreal comedy]]<br />[[Satire]]<br />[[Black comedy]] ...r through university and in various radio and television programmes in the 1960s, sought to make a new sketch comedy show unlike anything else on British te

Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie were cast members of the 1960s [[BBC]] radio comedy show ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', which al ...nathan Lynn]]), before Brooke-Taylor, Garden, and Oddie worked on the late-1960s TV show ''[[Broaden Your Mind]]'' (of which only about ten minutes survives

...<ref>Humphrey Carpenter ''That Was Satire That Was: The Satire Boom in the 1960s'', London, 2000, p. 232</ref> ...Britain|Arts Council]], Potter invested £500,000 in the production; [[BBC Films]] provided the rest of the capital. The film was not given a cinema release

...ooks including an autobiography, ''My Gorgeous Life'', appeared in several films and hosted several television shows (on which Humphries has also appeared a ...pt an increasingly outlandish wardrobe after performances in London in the 1960s through which his Edna character grew in stature and popularity.

...oped the Tramp persona and attracted a large fan base. He directed his own films and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the [[Essanay Studios|Essana ...ve the U.S. and settle in Switzerland. He abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include ''[[Monsieur Verdoux]]'' (1947), ''[[Limelight (1952 film)|L

...and made his television debut, becoming a reliable bit-part actor in many films, particularly in the [[war film|war film]] genre. ...heatrical responsibilities Hordern had regular supporting roles in various films including ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'' (1963), and ''[[A Funny T

* [[w:Satire|Satire]] ...to something larger in scope and influence, including touring stage shows, films, albums, books and musicals. The Pythons' influence on comedy has been comp

...r catchphrases—was successfully continued in comedy shows of the 1950s and 1960s, such as ''[[Take It from Here]]'', ''[[The Goon Show]]'' and ''[[Round the ''ITMA'' was a character-driven comedy and contained parody and satire, unlike previous British radio comedy. The programme's satirical targets du