{"id":611,"date":"2017-03-20T19:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/?p=611"},"modified":"2017-03-21T20:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T20:11:05","slug":"histcompod-episode-3-comedy-trade-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/histcompod-episode-3-comedy-trade-union\/","title":{"rendered":"HistComPod – Episode 3 ‘Comedy Trade Union’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third episode of A History Of Comedy In Several Objects (or HistComPod for short) is now available via iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Join Olly and Elspeth for another week spelunking in the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive as they look at an attempt to establish a Comedy Trade Union in 1983, and go through a list of all the key acts in the alternative comedy scene of the day, where future stars like French and Saunders rubbed shoulders with long forgotten performers whose gags are now lost in the mists of time.<\/p>\n

The specific focus of this episode is a letter written in 1983 by Andy de la Tour and Lee Cornes to others involved in the alternative cabaret scene at the time about the formation of a ‘union’ for performers, looking particularly at pay from specific venues. This letter is from the Andy de la Tour Collection (within this folder<\/a> of material).<\/p>\n

Olly also talks about a\u00a0new group, the UK Comedy Guild<\/a>; the article discussed (‘Gagging rights: British comedians set up UK Comedy Guild trade union’ by Paul Fleckney) can be found on\u00a0The Guardian website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"BSUCA-AT-006-002-A\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If you want to get involved\u00a0you can contact us via\u00a0standup@kent.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0or tweet us at\u00a0@histcompod<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can search the online catalogue for more information about the holdings of \u00a0the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive at\u00a0http:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The third episode of A History Of Comedy In Several Objects (or HistComPod for short) is now available via iTunes. Join Olly and Elspeth for another week spelunking in the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive as they look at an attempt to establish a Comedy Trade Union in 1983, and go through a list of all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140933,140941,140932],"tags":[140926,140853,140942,140944,140943,140932],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}