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Forget the Funky Gibbon: how musical comedy went from square to hip by Brian Logan

Novelty singles gave this art form a bad rap but acts such as Flight of the Conchords and Frisky and Mannish have brought it countercultural cachetIt was like taking a step back in time, watching Weird Al Yankovic at the Hammersmith Apollo last weekend. Not because I'm nostalgic for Al's glory years " on the contrary, I didn't know his stuff very well. But his act is a throwback to a time when musical comedy was unco…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM on October 9, 2015

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