Comments on: The (too) easy laugh that kills so many TV comedy shows https://my1960s.com/shulman/the-too-easy-laugh-that-kills-so-many-tv-comedy-shows/ We grew up in the sixties and loved every minute of it! Tue, 28 May 2024 12:30:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Peter Tyler https://my1960s.com/shulman/the-too-easy-laugh-that-kills-so-many-tv-comedy-shows/#comment-100 Tue, 28 May 2024 12:30:33 +0000 https://my1960s.com/?p=2848#comment-100 In reply to Ken.

I could not expressed this any better.This story gets right to the heart of the matter(and shows how much comedy has changed over the years).Well written piece,Sir!

]]> By: Ken https://my1960s.com/shulman/the-too-easy-laugh-that-kills-so-many-tv-comedy-shows/#comment-99 Mon, 27 May 2024 21:20:15 +0000 https://my1960s.com/?p=2848#comment-99 Milton Shulman was very perceptive. Writing in 1967, at first sight in other words, he gets it exactly right: ‘Steptoe’ and ‘Till Death Us Do Part’ were enormously popular from the start, and are still funny today. The 1960s tv comedies of Roy Hudd and Leslie Crowther are now completely forgotten. Yet he blames the wrong people. The more feeble comedies of the Sixties were feeble because of the writers, not because Roy Hudd or Leslie Crowther were poor comedians. Hudd in particular was brilliant, given decent material. The BBC, to encourage talent, were commissioning comedy scripts from new and untested writers: this was a brave policy, and the right thing to do, but some were bound to be less talented than Galton and Simpson or Johnny Speight.

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