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1969: Marty Feldman - What is Comedy? | One Pair of Eyes | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive
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42:27Now PlayingWhat makes you laugh? It is always easier to describe humour than to analyse it.
Marty Feldman, for many years a successful comedy writer before his more recent activities as a performer, prefers to look at humour through the people who create it, comparing their traditions, motivations, and anxieties with his own.
Among the people he talks to for this documentary are Peter Sellers, Sandy Powell, Eric Morecambe, Peter Brough and Archie Andrews, Dudley Moore, Annie Ross and Jon Hendricks, Johnny Speight, Denis Norden and Barry Took - a veritable who's who of British comedy.
Clip taken from One Pair of Eyes: No, But Seriously..., originally broadcast on BBC Two, 7 June, 1969.
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