EPISODE
SEASON
The History of Comedy - Season 1
The documentary series revolves around the path of comedy in the world through archive footage interspersed with contemporary interviews with legends and comedians everywhere. It is history not only that makes us laugh, but it has greatly affected the world. The series explains the influence of this comedy on the social and political scene throughout history and the course of all the events that followed.
1 December 1956, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
5 March 1955, Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA
29 September 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 April 1961, Mission Hills, California, USA
2 July 1970, Savannah, Georgia, USA
30 August 1948, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
8 June 1958, New York City, New York, USA
5 December 1968, San Francisco, California, USA
27 July 1957, Galveston, Texas, USA
30 October 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 December 1950, New York City, New York, USA
4 April 1964, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
4 September 1982, Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
13 November 1967, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
12 January 1972, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
8 December 1953, Yakima, Washington, USA
6 December 1967, Syosset, New York, USA
3 September 1970, Port Hueneme, California, USA
February 09, 2017
The CNN program would be enjoyable just for its wealth of vintage clips...To watch this series is to remember - or, depending on your age, to be introduced to - earlier comics who were incendiary in their own way, in much less permissive times.
February 09, 2017
What History of Comedy does within that hour is to bring what are often viewed as isolated incidents into context.
February 09, 2017
To its credit, History of Comedy does appear determined to cover every foot of this vast waterfront.