![]() ![]() Of course, it’s all about raising funds and Comic Relief isn’t for comedy-obsessed eighties teenagers any more and neither should it be. ![]() Needless to say I was soon pining for the days when I would be excited all week about Comic Relief and with good reason, with the likes of Fry & Laurie and French And Saunders doing actual new high quality material, repeats of little-seen episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus at a million o’clock in the morning, and, well, lots of actual proper funny tie-in stuff on the radio too. Cutting a long story short I was finding myself bored to the point of desperation by that year’s endless half-hearted attempts at combining the spectacularly unfunny stars of one show with the not exactly gag-inspiring format of another, only taking place in a cavernous studio with acoustics somewhere between a swimming pool and the end credits of We Are The Champions, punctuated only by people who should know better turning up with no material and wandering on stage assuming something would happen. Mind you, I may say that, but there was in fact some suitably inadvertent background motivation behind this feature. Which reminds me, if anyone has 1989’s Punt And Dennis Follow That Star!, a serialised retelling of the Nativity for Simon Mayo’s show which is pretty much the only The Mary Whitehouse Experience-related audio material that isn’t in circulation, could you please drop me a line? Anyway, the chapter also takes a look at Hey Rrradio!!!, the show that sort of evolved into The Mary Whitehouse Experience in a roundabout way, with Comic Relief inadvertently providing the bridge between the two, hence this heartless attempt at snatching money away from charity to line my own pockets. It was adapted primarily from Chapter Seven, Ken Dodd Is Innocent, which covers The Mary Whitehouse Experience and its many radio spinoffs including Sound Bites, Rob And Dave’s Comedy Phone-In, Punt And Dennis Sample Mary Whitehouse and plenty more besides. ![]() I have to be honest and admit outright that this look at the origins of The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a fairly calculated attempt to get some exposure for Fun At One – The Story Of Comedy At BBC Radio 1, which is still available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here. ![]()
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