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Article Excerpt
A little-noted casualty of the rise of New Labour in the UK was a generation of alternative comedians who had built careers opposing the Tories. In the 1990s, the targets of alternative comics--Thatcher, student politics (The Young Ones), monarchy, empire and colonialism (Black Adder), Thatcher again, Major and the Murdoch press (A Bit of Fry and Laurie), sexism, neo-liberalism, Thatcher and Major once again, chauvinism, war (Comic Strip Presents, The Man from Aunty)--looked to be on the back foot.
Ben Elton turned to writing musicals with Andrew Lloyd Webber, while keeping up a steady stream of books. Stephen Fry, a friend of the trouble-prone New Labour architect Peter Mandelson, moved on to movies and books, as did his comedy partner Hugh Laurie. Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall continued,...
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