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The best contacts book in entertainment gets dusted off once more as David Frost recruits Michael Palin, Stephen Fry, Michael Grade et al to look at the rise – and perhaps fall – of the sketch show. The question posed at the outset – has the sketch show had its day? – is a pertinent one, although not answered in the 15-minute taster we were able to see.
Still, we can promise plenty of clips, both unfamiliar (some lovely corpsing from the early days of live variety shows) and over-familiar (Andre Preview, ‘The Frost Reports’ class sketch). With any luck, a very watchable primer to a comedy format that should ideally be as easy to watch as it apparently is hard to master.