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.
12 October 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
26 March 1950, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1 December 1970, Bedford, New Hampshire, USA
13 May 1922, New York City, New York, USA
1940, USA
10 November 1956, Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
12 May 1937, New York City, New York, USA
12 September 1967, Washington, District of Columbia, 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.