Blackadder Goes Forth: better than your average sitcom. Martin Keene/PA Archive/PA Images August 30, 2017 Ben Elton’s wrong – TV sitcoms aren’t dead, they’ve just changed since his day Ian Wilkie, University of Salford In his recent Ronnie Barker Memorial Lecture, the comedian and writer said social media and technology are killing traditional TV comedy. Not so.
A local shop, for local people. BBC January 4, 2017 Brexit, comedy and ‘Britishness’ – what to do when parody becomes real Neil Archer, Keele University British comedy has always revelled in self-reflexive parody. Now, following Brexit, perhaps the re-nationalisation of British comedy is nigh.
Forget Blackadder, these are the guys Gove should be worrying about. Ian West/PA January 14, 2014 Young Brits think WWI was futile, but don’t blame Blackadder Steven Fielding, University of Nottingham As Britain starts four years of commemorating the centenary of the First World War, Blackadder Goes Forth, first broadcast on BBC1 in 1989, has, bizarrely, taken centre stage. To rather less fanfare than…