Satire boom

The satire boom is a general term to describe the emergence of a generation of English satirical writers, journalists and performers at the end of the 1950s. The satire boom is often regarded as having begun with the first performance of Beyond the Fringe on 22 August 1960 and ending around December 1963 with the cancellation of the TV show That Was The Week That Was. The figures most closely identified with it are Peter Cook, John Bird, John Fortune, David Frost, Bernard Levin and Richard Ingrams. Many of the figures who found initial celebrity through the satire boom went on to establish subsequently more serious careers as writers including Alan Bennett (drama), Jonathan Miller (polymathic), and Paul Foot (investigative journalism).

In his book The Neophiliacs Christopher Booker, who as a founding editor of Private Eye was a central figure of the satire boom, charts the years 1959 to 1964. He begins with the Cambridge Footlights student revue The Last Laugh written by Bird and Cook. It transferred to a West End theatre. Booker ends the period with the cancellation of the television series That Was The Week That Was, and the closing of the Establishment Club.

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Denis Norden: elder statesman of gentle comedy forged in heat of World War II

The Conversation 24 Sep 2018

Denis Norden, who died recently aged 96, epitomised a peculiarly British brand of comedy that emerged from a specific time and place ... Keep calm and carry on was the message ... Jokes were parochial and daft in tone rather than overtly satirical ... 1957-61) on television ... Like many of his contemporaries, he started to seem old-fashioned by the 1960s and was replaced, in his turn, by the new generation of university comics in the satire boom ... ....

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Fenella Fielding: the velvet-tongued marvel trapped in a camp cul-de-sac

The Observer 12 Sep 2018

a sensational showcase ... She was a brilliant interpreter of Wilde and Ibsen on stage and had written and performed one-woman revue shows at the time of the Peter Cook satire boom. Perhaps Fellini was also a little in love with her ... ....

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From Beyond the Fringe to Nanette: five shows that changed the face of comedy

The Guardian 21 Aug 2018

Beyond the Fringe ... Here, as never before, the sacred cows of postwar Britain (the political class; the royal family; the military) were led to the satirical slaughter ... this was “the moment,” he wrote, “when English comedy took its first decisive step into the second half of the 20th century.” By design or otherwise, Beyond the Fringe punched a hole through English deference and launched the 60s satire boom ... Live in Concert ... Twitter ... .......

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Zimbabwe parliament warns Mugabe: Turn up for hearing or face jail time

CNN 29 May 2018

Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)Zimbabwe's parliament has threatened to charge the country's former president Robert Mugabe with contempt if he does not appear at a hearing probing $15 billion in lost diamond revenue ... President Mnangagwa. 'Zimbabwe is open for business'. "We expect him to have time to appear before parliament ... He added ... Read More ... Robert Mugabe ... READ MORE. Satire is booming in Zimbabwe after Mugabe's fall. ....

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Satire Booming After Mugabe's Fall

All Africa 25 May 2018

[New Zimbabwe] On A stage in a park in Harare, Carl Joshua Ncube, perhaps the country's most famous comedian, is coaching a novice. Imitating her act, in which she pretends to deliver a baby, he mimes a doctor slapping its bottom ... ....

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Never-ending nightmare: why feminist dystopias must stop torturing women

The Guardian 12 May 2018

Society books. Never-ending nightmare. why feminist dystopias must stop torturing women. The Handmaid’s Tale has inspired a new generation of writers whose dystopian worlds are ever more bleak, dark and sadistic. But where is the hope? ... But no matter ... The boom of feminist dystopias seems to fit exactly that description – they are identifying problems, sometimes with satirical exaggeration, and giving readers the relief of recognition ... ....

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Rebooted MAD magazine to publish first issue in April

Entertainment Weekly 20 Feb 2018

Ready for a whole new MAD?. The long-running humor magazine officially announced via Twitter that it will be starting from scratch beginning this April, with a new No. 1 issue to coincide with its revamp ... The magazine has declined in relevance over the years, damaged by the reduced prominence of print publications as well as the boom of sharp satire across TV and digital media ... ....

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'Satire has had a busy year': how to laugh at the year that was

The Guardian 29 Dec 2017

American TV has continued its post-millennial satirical boom, ranging from cartoonish lampoonings to deep journalistic investigation, led by the likes of Saturday Night Live, Samantha Bee and John Oliver, the Emmy-laden former podcaster, who, it is fair to say, has come a long way since he and I were left alone in an empty theatre after our entire audience of four walked out 20 minutes into an Edinburgh preview show in 2004....

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Autocorrect Typo legalizes cannibalism instead of cannabis

Democratic Underground 14 Dec 2017

The typo, which somehow crept into the House bill between the second and third reading, is expected to cost the Canadian economy up to 22 billion dollars a year in lost cannabis-related revenue but create a boom in cannibalism-related tourism....

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We need to talk about: Jolyon Rubinstein and his new podcast

The Guardian 27 Oct 2017

The anchorman of Spotify’s news comedy podcast tells us about dealing with A-list guests, facing an armed response team while dressed in a gimp suit, and how satire can be a vital tool in the battle against extremism ... Is political satire harder to write now that we have a reality-show performer in the White House and did the original 1960s satire boom have an easier time of it?....

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Gerhard Richter: Brisbane show honours German master's irony and influence

The Guardian 16 Oct 2017

His early works in the 60s, painted from images sourced from the media, were parodies of the then-ascendant international styles of American Pop Art and the postwar culture and economic boom in West Germany at the time ... After forming and then promptly disbanding the satirical art movement Capitalist Realism, founded with fellow German artists Sigmar ......

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The Coffin Industry Proudly Supports the Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill

Democratic Underground 22 Sep 2017

(satire...). If Congress passes the new health care bill, there will be a boom in demand for all of these jobs, and Americas unemployment problems will be solved. The economy will become as shiny and sturdy as a new oak coffin ... ....

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Yo-Yo Ma joins MTT, SF Symphony at festive 2017 gala

San Francisco Examiner 15 Sep 2017

Saint-Saens’ Cello Concerto No ... The show began with the Overture to Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” written for an initially unsuccessful 1956 musical based on Voltaire’s classic satire. Veering from twinkling to animated to majestic and booming, the appealing piece served as an ideal introduction to the season’s upcoming focus on the American composer (and MTT’s friend Lenny) on the centennial of his birth ... Click here or ....

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