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The Comedy Café: 23/07/2010

23/07/2010

BBC Radio Scotland - The Comedy Café, 23/07/2010

Chris Kane celebrates the comedy of Radio Scotland's 80s Day.

Chris Kane looks at some of the key trends in 1980s humour, including the arrival of alternative comedy and the boom in satire.

Join Chris Kane for a trip down comedy memory lane to mark Radio Scotland's 80s Day.
Arnold Brown remembers the delights and horrors of London's Comedy Store, and we look at the stand-out satirical programmes of the 80s.
A great decade for film comedies or not? Movie critic Siobhan Synnot gives us her thoughts.
And - big hair, big shoulder pads and big phones: we laugh at the fashions and fads of the 80s.

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