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The Comedy Café: 12/08/2011

12/08/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Comedy Café, 12/08/2011

How classic music meets comedy at this year's BBC Proms.

Dramatic soprano, Susan Bullock, and BBC Radio 3 Controller, Roger Wright, explain how comedy and classic music go hand in hand at this year's BBC Proms.

Classic music meets comedy for the first time at this year's BBC Proms! On the bill is Soprano Susan Bullock - better known for dramatic performances of Wagner than her sense of humour. Susan joins the Comedy Café together with BBC Radio 3 Controller, Roger Wright, to explain how comedy can make beautiful classical music at the BBC Proms. 

German Comedy Ambassador, Henning Wehn, uses the stereotype of the humourless German as the basis for his act. Meanwhile Yasmeen Khan, one half of British-Asian sketch duo 'Asian Provocateurs', tries to avoid her comedy being pigeon-holed because of her cultural background. They join the Comedy Café to discuss the relevance of humour that relies on cultural stereotypes in today's politically correct world. 

Experimental '60's sitcom "The Strange World of Gurney Slade" was very strange indeed. Set in a surreal atmosphere in which the hero dips in and out of reality it was considered years ahead of its time. Conceived by actor, singer, songwriter and director, Anthony Newley, he also starred as the title character - an actor and social misfit who walks off the set of a banal sitcom in disgust into a fantasy world of his own creation. British Film Institute's TV Consultant, Dick Fiddey, shares his insights on why this short lived show is worthy of introducing to a new generation - four decades later.

And a year down the line we catch up with winner of last year's Foster's Edinburgh Best Newcomer Comedy Award, Roisin Conaty, who tells us what she's been up to over the past 12 months and shares her tips on the fresh talent at this year's festival to look out for.

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