All British Comedy Explained

All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun and Tom Salinsky Ben Elton explains The Young Ones . Released 27 November 2025. Ben Elton is one of the most significant voices in the British comedy landscape and has been for over forty years. We spoke to him largely because of The Young Ones but his list of TV writing credits is incredible and that’s before you get into his stand-up, novels, p...

All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky 1.4: The Goon Show. Released 20 November 2025. The one British comedy show to which all roads ultimately lead. Spike Milligan’s lunatic flights of fancy changed the game and he found ideal comrades in Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers. The show ran for ten years and hundreds of episodes. We listened to The Lost Gold Mine from the f...

All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky 1.3: Not Only But Also. Released 6 November 2025. Following the success of Beyond the Fringe, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore came to television with three series in a more whimsical tone than the biting stage show which shot them to fame, but still infused with Cook’s astonishing wordplay and Moore’s immense charm. We watched a sele...

All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky 1.2: The Young Ones. Released 23 October 2025. The first full expression of the anarchic style of alternative comedy was BBC2’s The Young Ones. 12 episodes were broadcast between 1982 and 1984 and they’re all currently available on iPlayer. The show made stars of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson and kickstarted Ben Elton’s career...

All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky 1.1: Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Released 9 October 2025 The seminal comedy show which ran for 45 episodes between 1969 and 1974 on BBC1 (first three series) and BBC2 (final series). It made stars of writer-performers Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and animator Terry Gilliam. We watched serie...

All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky Episode 0: In the Beginning. To kick off our journey through British comedy, we surveyed our first set of eight shows, all LANDMARKS of the genre. 1. Monty Python’s Flying Circus (which influenced all the comedy after it) 2. The Young Ones (which brought anarchic alternative comedy to the BBC) 3. Not Only But Also (early TV incar...

Abigoliah Schamaun is a professional stand-up comedian, originally from America and now living in London. Despite that, her knowledge of British television comedy is nothing short of shameful. Luckily, she has British writer Tom Salinsky to help her out, one show at a time. Mailing list: http://eepurl.com/jnPC56 allbritishcomedy@gmail.com https://allbritishcomedy.com https://www.youtube.com/@AllBr...

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