How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

Once in every lifetime, comes a sitcom like this.

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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.

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Cast

Clive Anderson actor Mark Arden actor

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Ed Bye actor Adrian Edmondson actor Ben Elton actor Stephen Frost actor Nick Helm actor Richard Herring actor Charlie Higson actor

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Paul Jackson actor Elis James actor Mark Lawson actor Helen Lederer actor John Lloyd actor Rik Mayall actor Lise Mayer actor

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Lloyd Peters actor Sally Phillips actor Nigel Planer actor

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Geoff Posner actor