How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

The story

This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.

Cast & crew

Clive AndersonCast

Mark Arden

Mark ArdenCast

Ed ByeCast

Adrian EdmondsonCast

Ben Elton(Archive Footage)

Stephen FrostCast

Nick HelmCast

Richard HerringCast

Charlie Higson

Charlie HigsonCast

Paul JacksonCast

Elis JamesCast

Mark LawsonCast