The University of Belly Laughs ; Melvyn Bragg On How the Footlights Conquered the World
Daily Mail › February 10, 2009
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When a group of seriousminded scholars founded Cambridge University back in the early 13th century, it seems a reasonable guess that they didn't regard its humble beginnings as a laughing matter. Over the past 800 years, of course, Cambridge has sealed its reputation for being one of the finest universities in the world.
But what those visionary medieval academics could never have guessed at the dawning of this institution was that, one day, it would be known to most not for the scientists, theologians or classicists, but for the comedians who would go on to make the outside world laugh.See the full content of this document
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The University of Belly Laughs ; Melvyn Bragg On How the Footlights Conquered the World
Above all else, it seems, the university has been a fertile breeding ground for comic genius.
A brief trawl through the membership archives of the Cambridge Footlights - which began 126 years ago to put on reviews, comic sketches...See the full content of this document
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