It is set to be an 'explosive new comedy' 😉
Like so many of us, Reed, 40, had a lot of fun on Guy Fawkes’ Night on the street of his home city. He clearly remembers that one of the yearly challenges for him and his mates at Bootham School was to find , a blazer worn by a pupil at rival St. Peter’s school, with which to dress their own guy. And, with luck, a school cap, as well.
“The fascinating thing is that, centuries on, we still celebrate a man who was part of an abject failure. He fell flat on his face. What he did wasn’t a great triumph for democracy, it was the biggest political flop ever. All the conspirators were discovered, all suffered the consequences. And the fact that he is remembered for his complete lack of any success at all is, to me, deeply comic.
Reed grew up with a lot of comedy in the family home. “Dad was, and is, a great fan,” he explains, “and we had a lot of videos with some of the classic performers. He recorded them from the television – on VHS. They were all labelled. If the label was in pencil, they could be enjoyed for a while, and then recorded over. If it was written with a Sharpie, then it was in the permanent collection. End of. In that latter category there was, The Young Ones, Blackadder, the Python films.
Reed doesn’t believe in philosophising about humour, and why it works but he does have some thoughts on why and how we laugh.
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