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The Comedy-O-Rama Hour The Wireless Theatre Company [ 1 ] The Auntie Mabel Hour , broadcast on the 1960s pirate radio station Radio City , off the British coast.
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The series has won numerous Comedy.co.uk Awards, voted for by readers of the British Comedy Guide. The series won the award for "Best British Radio Sitcom" for 2011, [27] 2013, [28] and 2014. [29] Also it was voted "Comedy of the Year" across TV and radio for 2014, making it the first radio show to be given the honour. [29]
Jerry Colonna and Bob Hope on Hope's NBC radio program, 1940.. Radio comedy began in the United States in 1930, and got a much later start in the United Kingdom because many of the British comedians (such as Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel) emigrated to the U.S. to make silent movies in Hollywood, and the American comedians who did not become dramatic actors migrated to radio.
In November 2010 it won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for "Best Radio Comedy / Light Entertainment". [7] In January 2013, it won the "Best Radio Entertainment Show" award in the 2012 Comedy.co.uk Awards held by the British Comedy Guide. [8] [9] It won the same award in 2015. [10]
The series was a successor to the early 1990s topical comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience, in which Punt and Dennis were a key part, although its origins lie with the short-lived Live on Arrival from 1988. The programme first aired on 26 September 1998. Repeats of The Now Show are now aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was voted Best British Radio Sketch Show in the British Comedy Guide Awards 2011. [4] In 2014, it was awarded Silver for Best Comedy at the Radio Academy Awards. [5] It was also shortlisted for Best Radio Comedy in the 2014 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards.
It was also the London home of the BBC's Radio 1 Club in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Paris Theatre closed in 1995, being replaced by the BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House . The closure was marked with a commemorative concert and broadcast of the last show ever to be recorded at the theatre, namely the final show in series two of ...