The Frost Report writing team with some familiar faces including the future Monty Python team, 1965
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The Frost Report writing team with some familiar faces including the future Monty Python team, 1965
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It’s such a great photo, a different era.
Some titans of British comedy right there.
Ronnie Barker and Mart Feldman ftw.
Is that Marty Feldman in lower left?
Ok, I’m just waking up – so bare with me. Is that Dudley Moore in front of Eric Idle or someone who looks like him a little?
It’s really hard to overstate how massively influential this programme was not only for the British comedy scene, but comedy in general. All of the writers went on to shape the way comedy was delivered on TV screens for the next 20 years or so, which gave birth to the alternative comedy of the 80s and 90s – The Young Ones, Red Dwarf etc.
Monty Python, and their associates such as Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman changed TV comedy forever. It was on the Frost Report that the Python writing partnerships were formed – Jones and Palin, and Chapman and Cleese. They KNEW they had something that nobody else did, and David Frost let them all run riot.
Monty Python are the most influential comedy group of all time, and it’s hard to see how anything like that will happen again. It all started (properly) on the Frost Report.
I’m genuinely surprised there’s only one Ronnie and zero Goodies.
Back row: ?, Barry Cryer, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, ?
Middle row: ?, ?, ?, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ?, ?, Dudley Moore, Eric Idle, ?, ?, ?, ?
Front row: Marty Feldman, Sheila Steafel, David Frost, James Gilbert, Julie Felix, Ronnie Barker
There’s some serious brain power there.
Peter Cook once said that his most regrettable action was saving David Frost from drowning.
The Timmy Williams sketch sums up their feelings on working for Frost.
Too cool – I bet they had fun together!
Is that Douglas Adams (second row, fourth from the right)?
Marty Feldman and Ronnie Barker bookending the front row