Beyond A Joke
Series exploring how sitcoms reflect contemporary Britain at the close of the 20th century, featuring archive news footage, interviews and clips
Another comedy also has this name.
- Genre
- Documentary
- Broadcast
- 2009
- Channel
- ITV3
- Episodes
- 5 (1 series)
- Features
- John Cleese, Paul Nicholas, Tony Benn, Carla Lane, Jonathan Harvey, Don Warrington, Ian Lavender, Nina Myskow and others
- Director
- Vicky Thomas
- Producers
- Vicky Thomas and Rachel Ashdown
An ITV3 documentary series which looked at how contemporary Britain at the close of the 20th century was reflected in the British comedy programmes that were made during that time.
The hour-long episodes feature news archive material, interviews with famous comedy professionals (including John Cleese), and clips from the various sitcoms discussed.
- Production company
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 4th May 2009 on ITV3 at 9pm
- Last new broadcast
- Monday 1st June 2009 on ITV3 at 9pm
- Length of episodes
- 1 hour
- Last repeat
- Sunday 7th June 2009 at 8:00pm
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