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Exploding Cooker

The Story of Slapstick charts the history of the world's most popular comedy genre. Whether you're three or 53 we all seem to love physical humour. It doesn't matter if they're slapped, banged or walloped, there's a simple glee in the misfortune of others. The '80s were the time of the alternative comedy movement. A new generation of young upstarts were sticking it to the man and unleashing the truly anarchic appeal of slapstick. None more so than The Young Ones. In this clip, we see the truly explosive nature of slapstick and the liberal attitudes to studio safety at the time.

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