![]() The title caused immediate problems: Mrs Whitehouse herself threatened legal action, and Dare made preparations to change the title to 'The William Rees Mogg Experience' (Baddiel even recorded an alternative end-credits sequence, but in the end, the original title remained). ![]() All four were in fact graduates of Cambridge University, but were part of a distinct generation of comedians who were, at the time, in strong reaction against the revue tradition: their comedy was direct, sometimes polemical and largely based on the conventions of stand-up. ![]() The constant personnel in a changing line-up were a pair of double-acts: ex- Rrradio!!! writers Rob Newman and David Baddiel, and Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, who were also breaking into television around this time via their appearances in Jasper Carrott's BBC1 show Carrott Confidential. The series was devised by Bill Dare, who had also produced its predecessor. The show which put Radio 1 firmly on the comedy map grew out of Hey Rrradio!!!, the station's first official comedy series, which had appeared a couple of years earlier. Series Two ('Summer season') 1989 (nine programmes) Online encyclopaedia of contemporary british radio comedy
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