Performance

Venue	Crazy Coqs Cabaret
	Also: Brasserie Zedel
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	12th July 2017
To	12th July 2017
When	21:15
Crazy Coqs Cabaret (V01613972150)
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Date of change: 28 Jun 17 - T1115363442

The Establishment Club

Work:: The Establishment Club (S91490773)

Production:: (T1115363442)

Founded by Peter Cook in 1961, "The Establishment" was the Soho club from which the satire boom was launched. Featuring uncensored, live, stand-up comedy, it gave a platform to radical, political, and anarchic performers (everyone from Lenny Bruce to Barry Humphries and even Frankie Howerd), and was the inspiration for "That Was the Week That Was" (first broadcast in 1962), and Beyond The Fringe which ran for 18 months on Broadway. Fifty years on, comedy performers no longer have to fear censorship from the Lord Chamberlain, yet judging from the bland state of comedy on television today, although he may be gone, his malign spirit lives on. So what better time to relaunch the club that first challenged the tedium of the status quo?

Performer	Steve Furst (host)
Performer	David Mills
Performer	Dickie Beau
Performer	Yuriko Kotani
Performer	Frank Sanazi
Performer	Rainer Hersch

Listing:: L01517483612

Production details

Founded by Peter Cook in 1961, "The Establishment" was the Soho club from which the satire boom was launched. Featuring uncensored, live, stand-up comedy, it gave a platform to radical, political, and anarchic performers (everyone from Lenny Bruce to Barry Humphries and even Frankie Howerd), and was the inspiration for "That Was the Week That Was" (first broadcast in 1962), and Beyond The Fringe which ran for 18 months on Broadway. Fifty years on, comedy performers no longer have to fear censorship from the Lord Chamberlain, yet judging from the bland state of comedy on television today, although he may be gone, his malign spirit lives on. So what better time to relaunch the club that first challenged the tedium of the status quo?

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