{"id":3746,"date":"2020-06-03T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2020-06-03T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T14:42:23","slug":"olly-double-interview-on-the-british-comedy-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/06\/03\/olly-double-interview-on-the-british-comedy-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Olly Double interview on the British Comedy Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/544\/double-oliver\">Dr Olly Double<\/a>, Reader in Drama, has been interviewed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comedy.co.uk\/\">British Comedy Guide<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>The British Comedy Guide &#8211; BCG &#8211; is a fan-run website dedicated to the promotion and celebration of British comedy. It is the world&#8217;s most-visited website about British comedy.<\/p>\n<p>The interview is entitled \u20181979 and All That: Back to the Future of Comedy after Coronavirus\u2019, by Jay Richardson.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Olly talks about how Coronavirus has impacted the comedy scene, and speculates how it can recover: \u2018There&#8217;s a strong case for the government to put really, really well targeted money into making sure that we don&#8217;t lose the live scene,\u2019 he explains \u2018It&#8217;s important to recognise that those people who play the O2 wouldn&#8217;t have got to that point if they hadn&#8217;t started out learning to perform in smaller clubs.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He also discusses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/news\/3549\/olly-double-publishes-new-book-on-alternative-comedy\">his recent book<\/a> <em>Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2020), and the varied history of the alternative comedy scene. \u2018That was another thing that surprised me,\u2019 he reveals, \u2018[t]he extent to which Covent Garden street performers were an important part of the growth of the scene, poetry, the extent to which a particular contingent of street-based acts from Brighton were important, those things were really interesting.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the full interview, please see the webpage here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comedy.co.uk\/live\/features\/oliver-double-interview\/\">www.comedy.co.uk\/live\/features\/oliver-double-interview\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Olly Double, Reader in Drama, has been interviewed by the British Comedy Guide website. The British Comedy Guide &#8211; BCG &#8211; is a fan-run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/06\/03\/olly-double-interview-on-the-british-comedy-guide\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}