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Helen Lederer says young women today 'would be aghast' at sexism in TV in 80s and 90s

Comedian and actress Helen Lederer found fame on our screens in the 1980s and 90s in shows including Naked Video, Bottom, The Young Ones and Absolutely Fabulous

Daily Mirror

Unseen footage of The Young Ones to be released as show marks 40th anniversary

The anarchic programme aired between 1982 and 1984

Wales Online

‘We took the sitcom and blew it apart’: how The Young Ones changed comedy for ever

With flying eclairs, falling beds and exploding buses, the anarchic antics of Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike shoved alternative comedy into the mainstream. Forty years on, we ask the show’s creators how they pulled it off

The Guardian - UK

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The Tube at 40: Fun facts about loved 80s TV show that came to Liverpool

The first episode of The Tube was broadcast on Bonfire Night, 1982

Liverpool Echo

Ben Elton brings back C4 fan favourite Friday Night Live after more than three decades

Ben Elton has spoken of his return to stand-up show Friday Night Live, which 'literally changed British entertainment', for a one-off special to mark 40 years of Channel 4

Daily Mirror

Edinburgh notebook: ‘Rik Mayall was like Bad Santa to us’

Stand-up comic Red Richardson on his pedigree comedy childhood

The Guardian - UK

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