Filmed in the UK in 1965, this rare footage captures Allen in his pomp – and telling jokes that feel absolutely fresh
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Title: The Woody Allen Show
Year: 1965
The set-up: If you've seen the original Casino Royale movie, my sympathy. Even by the standards of 1960s sex comedies, it is an embarrassing mess. It did make one oblique contribution to world culture, however. In 1965, when Woody Allen was in the UK filming it (playing the villain, whose plan is to make all women beautiful and exterminate all men taller than himself), he recorded a quick half-hour for Granada Television. So far as anybody knows – or at least so far as I do – it is the only complete Woody Allen standup show that exists on film.
Usually standup comedy ages about as well as a tomato, becoming furred by quaintness after only a few years,...
Reading on mobile? Click to view the video
Title: The Woody Allen Show
Year: 1965
The set-up: If you've seen the original Casino Royale movie, my sympathy. Even by the standards of 1960s sex comedies, it is an embarrassing mess. It did make one oblique contribution to world culture, however. In 1965, when Woody Allen was in the UK filming it (playing the villain, whose plan is to make all women beautiful and exterminate all men taller than himself), he recorded a quick half-hour for Granada Television. So far as anybody knows – or at least so far as I do – it is the only complete Woody Allen standup show that exists on film.
Usually standup comedy ages about as well as a tomato, becoming furred by quaintness after only a few years,...
- 10/24/2013
- by Leo Benedictus
- The Guardian - Film News
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