{"id":638,"date":"2017-04-11T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/?p=638"},"modified":"2017-04-11T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:16:19","slug":"histcompod-episode-6-jim-barclays-letter-of-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/histcompod-episode-6-jim-barclays-letter-of-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Histcompod &#8211; Episode 6 &#8216;Jim Barclay&#8217;s letter of complaint&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/02\/HistComPod-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-578\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/02\/HistComPod-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/02\/HistComPod-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/02\/HistComPod-logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/02\/HistComPod-logo-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/02\/HistComPod-logo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/02\/HistComPod-logo-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Episode 6 of &#8216;A History of Comedy in Several Objects&#8217; is now available on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/a-history-of-comedy-in-several-objects\/id1210414720\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acast.com\/ahistoryofcomedypodcast\" target=\"_blank\">acast<\/a>. In this episode we look at strongly-worded letter written to that legend of early alternative comedy, Jim Barclay. This angry missive was provoked by a riotous show by Alternative Cabaret at Goldsmiths College Students\u2019 Union in 1979. Expect deviance, titillation and Keith Allen. We also have excerpts from an exclusive interview with Jim Barclay himself!<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to get involved! You can contact us via\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:standup@kent.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">standup@kent.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0or tweet us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HistComPod\" target=\"_blank\">@histcompod<\/a>. You can search the online catalogue for more information about the holdings of \u00a0the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Images of some objects featured on the podcast can be found on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishstandupcomedyarchive\/albums\" target=\"_blank\">flickr site<\/a> in the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishstandupcomedyarchive\/albums\/72157680653167655\/with\/33166952770\/\" target=\"_blank\">History of Comedy in Several Objects<\/a>\u2018 album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 6 of &#8216;A History of Comedy in Several Objects&#8217; is now available on iTunes and acast. In this episode we look at strongly-worded letter written to that legend of early alternative comedy, Jim Barclay. This angry missive was provoked by a riotous show by Alternative Cabaret at Goldsmiths College Students\u2019 Union in 1979. Expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140933,140932],"tags":[140933,140845,140926,140853,179459,179460,140932,179461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}