The Mary Whitehouse Experience (1990)

Genre

comedy television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 12 episodes

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four Cambridge graduates perform sketch comedy that makes fun of current events and public figures. The show is named after a real moral campaigner who became a target of jokes.

satiricalwittyenergeticplayfulirreverenttopicalsharp

What happens

The Mary Whitehouse Experience is a British topical sketch comedy show that the BBC produced in association with Spitting Image Productions. It starred two comedy double acts, one being David Baddiel and Rob Newman, the other Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis; all four comedians had graduated from Cambridge University. It was broadcast on both radio and television in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The show was named after Mary Whitehouse, a campaigner against what she saw as a decline in television standards and public morality. She became the target of mockery in the United Kingdom for her attitudes. The BBC feared Whitehouse would initiate litigation for the use of her name in the show's title, and for a period the alternative title The William Rees-Mogg Experience was considered. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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