British Satire Boom of the 1960s/Humphrey Carpenter

This is a 2000 stated first edition with dust jacket, A Great Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of the 1960s, by Humphrey Carpenter, published by Public Affairs. It is actually a first thus. having been published that year with the title That Was Satire That Was.

CONTENTS

PREFACE
Prologue: Permission to Speak

PART ONE
I've got a viper in this box

1. Doing Silly Turns
2. This suet and the sangfroid will get you nowhere
3. Joined at the hip
4. A little bit of something for everyone
5. Danny Kaye of Cambridge
6. At right angles to all the comedy we'd heard

PART TWO
Boom

7. Funnier than anything we had ever seen
8. It really is a Rolls
9. Satire was in
10. Fortnightly Lampoon
11. Balls to the lot of them
12. A highly successful year for British satire

PART THREE
"The BBC moved in on the act"

13. A mixture of news, interview, satire and controversy
14. "Live" as hell
15. The death of deference
16. Sick jokes and lavatory humour
17. The party's over

PART FOUR
Everyone is a satirist

18. Swimming is out of fashion
19. I still think there is room for satire
20. Giggling into the sea

    Curtain call: where are they now?

    SOURCE NOTES
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    INDEX

The book is fine and probably unread. All 391 pages are present and clean, unmarked, untorn, and free of dog-ears. The binding is tight.

The book is 9 1/2 inches tall and 6 1/2 inches wide, and weighs 1 pound 8 ounces.

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