Talk:Radio comedy
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I can't seem to find information that indicates that Yes Minister or Steptoe and Son were previously radio shows?
Zuytdorp Survivor 02:20, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- I added that because BBC7 radio were doing reruns. However, the BBC7 Yes Minister website isn't very helpful :( --Steinsky 13:48, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- (same goes for Steptoe and Son)
- By "reruns" do you mean playing the audio of a tv show on the radio? I must admit that years ago they did this for Yes, Minister on the radio here in Australia, but I'm not sure that makes them radio comedy. Perhaps we could put a note next to such entries on the list. eg: "(tv show audio)"
- Zuytdorp Survivor 03:53, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- They were re-recordings of TV shows for radio. They also did this for Dad's Army, where the scripts had to be altered slightly to remove some of the visual humour. JW 23:21, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Lead sentence
[edit]I added a summarizing lead sentence, but it duplicates some info in the Background & History section, so it would be good if someone could clean that up.
--Jeff 03:57, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
- Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve sitcom elements, sketches or any other form of comedy found on other mediums.
Except silent forms, e.g., sight gags. I know, it's a pendantic point, but that sentence could be more precise.
--66.142.229.83 17:39, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
- I replaced "any other" with "many other", and added a bit about the advantages of radio comedy. I'm not sure it's right for the introduction though - it might be better in its own paragraph with a more detailed analysis of the pros and cons of the medium. Not Josh 14:48, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Overlap
[edit]The category 'BBC radio comedy' overlaps the list, but not entirely. Should the list just be a link to the category? (can I link to a category?) Or should I work to make both the same? Henry Troup 20:50, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Approach to comedic radio
[edit]this section seems to me to make no sense. I don't even really understand it.
British radio comedy
[edit]The paragraph discussing the origins of British radio comedy is not only embarrassingly scant, it's also factually incorrect. Absurdtrousers (talk) 15:20, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
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