{"product_id":"a-great-silly-grin-humphrey-carpenter-9780306812057","title":"A Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of the 1960s","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Great, Silly Grin\u003c\/i\u003e opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s. From there it is a short trip to the coffee bars of London, where the appearance of a scruffy yellow pamphlet calling itself Private Eye overturned the way Britons looked at their world. The apotheosis of the satire boom, and the progenitor of so many American comedy acts, was the groundbreaking BBC television program \"That Was the Week That Was,\" which combined elements of sketch comedy and evening-news broadcast to produce something essential, hilarious, and, on occasion, scandalous. Humphrey Carpenter's history of this tumultuous and exciting era introduces us not only to the people involved in its creation--Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Michael Frayn, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, and David Frost--but also their routines and sketches.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Humphrey Carpenter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0306812053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780306812057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Da Capo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 6.60w x 0.85d","brand":"Humphrey Carpenter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057820233983,"sku":"9780306812057","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_127c2b0d-d55c-4abf-92a7-0328b9e28bd8.jpg?v=1685049052","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-great-silly-grin-humphrey-carpenter-9780306812057","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}