An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s.

Beyond the Fringe was at the forefront of the 1960s satire boom and after success in Britain it transferred to the United States, where it was also a hit.

It played in London's West End and then on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s, and is widely regarded as seminal to the rise of satire in 1960s Britain.

The programme is considered to be a significant element of the " satire boom " in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s.

The 1960s had also seen the satire boom, including the creation of the club, The Establishment, which, amongst other things, gave British audiences their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from Lenny Bruce.

The club grew in prominence in the 1960s as a hotbed of comedy and satire.

* The Establishment ( club ), an English satire club of the 1960s

Examples of British anti-establishment satire include much of the humour of Peter Cook and Ben Elton ; novels such as Rumpole of the Bailey ; magazines such as Private Eye ; and television programmes like Spitting Image, Rumpole of the Bailey, That Was The Week That Was, and The Prisoner ( see also the satire boom of the 1960s ).

He also wrote histories of BBC Radio 3 ( on which he had regular stints as broadcaster ), the British satire boom of the 1960s, Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s ( 2002 ), and a centennial history of the Oxford University Dramatic Society in 1985.

Private Eye was part of the satire boom of the early 1960s, which included the television show That Was The Week That Was, for which Ingrams wrote, and The Establishment nightclub, run by Peter Cook.

This caught the wave of the satire boom in 1960s Britain and became a popular programme.

He was a writer and presenter on many shows, including the 1960s satire programmes That Was The Week That Was and The Frost Report.

Winner and Reed closed out the 1960s as a pair with The Jokers ( 1967 ) ( also starring Michael Crawford ), popular comedy-drama I'll Never Forget What's ' isname ( 1967 ), and the World War II satire Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ).

Though there were still many episodes that were standard 1960s sitcom fare, the show became notable for its surrealism and satire.

Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on That Was The Week That Was, the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, as well as in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the traditional formula was shunned by The Two Ronnies, who completely dispensed with the need for a " straight man ", and Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, two Oxbridge-educated comedians who used the double act to deliver satire and edgy comedy.

Some have critiqued Robbins for his approach toward political satire, stating that his references to Reagan-era politics and the rebelliousness of the 1960s are simply too anachronistic in the context of the 1990s, but others have praised it for framing political commentary as a Hollywood comedy.

The novel is a bitterly funny satire on life for young English Catholics in the 1950s and 1960s, depicting them juggling the pressures of youth, sexual desire and the modern world with rigid rules about the avoidance of pleasures, the shame of disappointing Christ and the Virgin, and the fear of hell.

In the 1960s, Morgan was seen at times on the legendary weekly news satire That Was The Week That Was in 1964 – 65, made numerous appearances in the early years of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and became a regular cast member of the short-lived but respected James Thurber-based comedy series, My World and Welcome to It in 1969.

News satire has been prevalent on television since the 1960s, when it enjoyed a renaissance in the UK with the Satire Boom, led by such luminaries as Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, David Frost, Eleanor Bron and Dudley Moore and the television programme That Was The Week That Was.

Mavis Bramston grew out of the recent local theatrical tradition of topical satirical revue —- most notably the popular revues staged at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre in the 1950s and 1960s -— but it was also strongly influenced by the British satire boom and especially by the contemporary British TV satirical comedy series That Was The Week That Was and Not Only ...

In the early 1960s, Japanese popular vaudevillian Shinji Maki used this melody with his social satire performance " Yan-na-chatta-bushi ".

Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.

The local economy is based upon tourism directed to the beaches of the Costa Blanca and particularly the second residence construction boom which started in the 1960s and reinvigorated again by the late 1990s.

Other manufacturers and the aviation press widely ridiculed and spoofed many of these marketing terms but between Cessna ’ s designers producing a product the flying public wanted and the work of the marketing department, Cessna built and sold more aircraft than any other manufacturer during the boom years of the 1960s and 1970s.

The 1950s and early 1960s featured a boom in synagogue construction as upwardly mobile American Jews moved to the suburbs.

Following the 1960s boom of shockumentary " Mondo films " such as Gualtiero Jacopetti's Mondo Cane, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Italian cinema became internationally synonymous with violent horror films.

The heady days of the CACM ( midto-late 1960s ), which produced an industrial boom for El Salvador and Guatemala, barely touched the Honduran economy except to increase its imports because of the comparative advantages enjoyed by the Salvadoran and Guatemalan economies and Honduras's inability to compete.

Other British companies contributed to a boom in horror film production in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s, including Tigon-British and Amicus, the latter best known for their anthology films such as Dr. Terror's House of Horrors ( 1965 ).

Such successful diplomatic and economic policies allowed Tito to preside over the Yugoslav economic boom and expansion of the 1960s and 1970s.

The population of Spain doubled during the twentieth century as a result of the spectacular demographic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The economic boom was however overshadowed in the late 1960s and early 1970s during the so-called Years of Lead, when Milan witnessed an unprecedented wave of street violence, labour strikes and political terrorism.

* Graham Bond ( 1937 – 1974 ), an English musician, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s

In the early 1960s Allen Sherman referred to Thoreau in his song parody " Here's To Crabgrass " about the suburban housing boom of that era with the line " Come let us go there and live like Thoreau there.

At independence, Mozambique's industrial base was well-developed by Sub-Saharan Africa standards, thanks to a boom in investment in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The effect of the baby boom continued to be analyzed and exploited throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Changes in the law in the 1960s brought about a boom of strip clubs in Soho with " fully nude " dancing and audience participation.

Large reserves of petroleum and natural gas were discovered in the 1960s, which led to a continuing boom in the economy.

At independence, Mozambique ’ s industrial base was well-developed by Sub-Saharan Africa standards, thanks to a boom in investment in the 1960s and early 1970s.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Baton Rouge experienced a boom in the petrochemical industry, causing the city to expand away from the original center.

The Haven Bridge, which now carries the two trunk roads over the river, was opened in 1966, and the new road built in the early 1970s rather separated Skirbeck from Boston ; but the town largely avoided the development boom of the 1960s.

The Dana Porter Arts Library, with sculptures by Ron Baird in the foreground Over a period of five years ( 2003 – 2008 ), the University experienced its second largest building boom since the 1960s.

The 1960s and 1970s saw a second population boom, caused by immigration from poorer regions of Spain: however this was not matched by construction of the necessary amenities and it was only in the 1990s that public investment resulted in additional schools, leisure facilities and housing.