>> The dead parrot sketch is 50 years old this year
>> That might as well be the middle ages to ages to an eighteen years
>> old. How well were you acquainted with first world war era comedians in 1969?
Not sure about comedians but I'd a nodding acquaintance with music of WW1 and after listening to 'These You Have Loved' and Saturday Night is Music Night with my paternal Grandmother. They also cropped up on the RBL Festival of Remembrance which my other Gran regarded as compulsory viewing.
Perhaps there's a difference there. My generation gathered as a family round the television. We saw stuff like Dad's Army, When the Boat Comes In and various other plays and films covering events from earlier in 20th Century. The Good Old Days was another window into the past (we used to see the producer, Barney Colehan in the village newsagent - he lived just up the road from my parents).
Nowadays with a telly or PC in every room there's no linger that shared experience.
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