Interlude: Footlights and that…
That Mitchell and Webb are a bit posh. This is hardly a secret as lots of comedy personnel are also fans of the sun-dreied tomato and pesto lifestyle. Because of their posh and funny status they must have gone to Cambridge and been involved in that Footlights thing, right? Of course. It supplied posh funny people to the telly box world every blinkin’ year! A whole load of Pythons and Goodies were there, as was sci-fi comedy writer Douglas Adams. In the early 1980s it made Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery and then in the 1990s it made a lot of people with ties to That Mitchell And Webb Look.
e.g.
1991: Cambridge Underground. Cast: Nick Ball, Mark Evans, James Hickish, Sue Perkins
Written by: The cast and director, David Farr, Murray Gold, Steve Hudson, Ol Parker.
1993: Some Wood And A Pie. Cast: Georgie Bevan, Katie Breathwick, Mark Evans, Daniel Mazer, William Sutcliffe, Robert Thorogood. Written by: The cast, James Bourne, James Bachman.
1994: The Barracuda Jazz Option. Cast: James Bachman, Katie Breathwick, Liz Hurran, Daniel Mazer, Robert Webb. Director: Mark Evans.
1995: Fall From Grace. Cast: Matthew Holness, David Mitchell, Tamsin Stanley, Claire Taylor, Jonathan Taylor, Robert Webb (also Vice-president of the committe). Written by: The cast and director, Leila Hackett. Additional material: Charlie Hartill, Linda Robertson, Gus Brown, Richard Grocock, Lucy Montgomery. Director: James Bachman.
1996: Rainbow Stranglers. Cast: Ali Chalmers, Leila Hackett, Matthew Holness, David Mitchell (also President of the committee) , Lucy Montgomery. Written by: The cast and director, James Bachman, Jonathan Taylor. Additional material: Gaby Kruger, Matthew Green, Charles Dean, Tom Hilton, Earl Spencer-Brown, Richard Grocock, Hannah Roberts, Richard Ayoade, Jerome Smith, Sarah Moule, Rachel Cammack. Director: Robert Webb.
Now we know…
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