Oxbridge

tony cowards · Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 11198

The illustrious University of Salford has produced some of the greats...Rik Mayall, Ade Edmundson and of course me (although I had nothing to do with comedy during my time there).
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MikeP · Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Sway, New Forest

All Footlighters can be found here.

Oh, and can anyone tell me this Cook Forst drowning anecdote?

Cecilia Smart · Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 1887

I must throw in my tuppenth and say that I know a few (predominantly) Oxford people that are, like the rest of us, trying their hardest to write great material - be it novels, screenplays, plays etc and just trying to create something brilliant and original.

It doesnt seem to automatically guarantee that they are further ahead if the are from my generation (between 28-35). It most certainly have have done for the unfunny-as-fuck Punt and Dennis generation of graduates though.

Admittedly, of the people I know, it does seem to have got them automatic freelance jobs at the BBC via friends and 'soft' nepotism (ie, just getting people through the door into jobs) - which in itself is no great feat. The pay is shit and the politics and fuckology are the same as in all publicly funded institutions.

pete_holloway · Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 48

jug · Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 3956

" What about the Goodies? A striking ommission, that has undermined this whole thread "

Yep, as they all went to Cambridge University it rather hammers the Oxbridge claim

Met at the footlight stuff, toured with Cambridge circus and went on to I'm Sorry I'll read That Again

In fact Tim Brooke-Taylor was president of the Footlights

so well done Tom Bell

Guest · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:35 am Post subject:

jug · Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 3956

Tut Tut yourself Mr Smith

There was an element of sarcasm within

Do try to keep up

Guest · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

PLEASE explain it then, SO that in THE future I might be UP to speed.

jug · Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 3956

It'll take more than any explainations from me to get you up to speed

Perhaps one of your friends might help

Guest · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:32 pm Post subject:

spudfish · Joined: 11 Jun 2005 Posts: 4826 Location: Middlesbrough.

didnt Caroline Aherne go to Liverpool? or has my uni been lying to me?

We Hate Pigeons Productions met on a Stand Up course in liverpool. We're not famous yet of course, at least not outside Liveprool's pubs...

jug · Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 3956

" ...TRY being less PEDANTIC.. "

I hardly think pointing out that a post is completely wrong is pendantry

But I'll happily bow to your greater knowledge of the subject

Clever Jake · Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1366

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DanWillis · Joined: 31 Jan 2002 Posts: 314 Location: London

Rowan Atkinson's a graduate of Newcastle University, he's made a penny or 6. Billy Connelly is probably the most famous British stand-up internationally, I doubt he went to Oxbridge, though I've no idea if he's got a degree, very good folk singer though ... And Frank Skinner has a degree or 2 and he's not Oxbridged up, though he was shacked up with that Baddiel fella, so osmosis may have kicked in..

I do think there is an "Old boys" mentality at the BBC when it comes to hiring people from Oxbridge .... Or at least there used to be, they're all on the picket lines now...