British TV Comedies
British TV Comedies
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英国喜剧电视节目
DOI：
10.1057/9781137552952_11
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2016
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Osborne D
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对于大多数国家和大多数时期的大多数观众来说，看电视需要看着其他人的脸--他们通常没有见过面对面的人。1989年1月5日，第4频道播出了《德斯蒙德的故事》，这是英国第一部由非洲加勒比裔黑人编剧创作和编剧的情景喜剧。这部剧在许多方面都是里程碑式的，尽管它仍然是第四频道播出时间最长的情景喜剧剧《S》，但它的演员阵容也是如此。著名演员诺曼·比顿饰演来自圭亚那的脾气暴躁的理发店老板德斯蒙德·安布罗斯，而德斯蒙德长期受苦的妻子雪莉由英国战后戏剧界的另一位坚定人物卡门·门罗饰演(四年前，卡门·门罗与蒙娜·哈蒙德、伊冯·布鲁斯特和伊尼戈·埃斯佩杰尔共同创立了英国首屈一指的黑人领导公司Talawa Theatre)。德斯蒙德的理发店位于伦敦东南部的佩克汉姆地区，这里是他的三个孩子迈克尔(杰夫·弗朗西斯饰)、格洛丽亚(金·沃克饰)、肖恩(贾斯汀·皮克特饰)、他的朋友波克皮(拉姆·约翰·霍尔德饰)和波克皮的对手、非洲永久学生马修(吉尔布尔·阿桑特饰)和各种当地人的聚会场所。
For most viewers in most countries and in most periods, watching television has involved looking at the faces of other people — people they have not usually met in person, (Frosh 90)WhenDesmond’swas launched by Channel 4 on 5 January 1989, it was the first situation comedy series in Britain to be created and scripted by a black writer of African Caribbean descent. It was a landmark series in a number of ways, notwithstanding the fact that it remains Channel 4’s longest-running situation comedy series, but also for the acting credentials of its cast. The celebrated actor Norman Beaton starred as Desmond Ambrose, a grumpy barbershop owner from Guyana, while Desmond’s long-suffering wife Shirley was played by another stalwart figure of British post-war theatre, Carmen Munroe (who, together with Mona Hammond, Yvonne Brewster and Inigo Espejel, had founded Talawa Theatre, Britain’s premier black-led company, only four years previously). Set in the south-east London area of Peckham in Desmond’s barbershop, the premises are used as a gathering place for his family of three children Michael (Geff Francis), Gloria (Kim Walker), Sean (Justin Pickett), his friend Porkpie (Ram John Holder) and Porkpie’s adversary, the African perpetual student Matthew (Gyearbuour Asante), and a variety of locals.