That Was Satire That Was: The Satire Boom of the 1960s brave memoir The Trap: Sometimes your friends

The Trap: Sometimes your friends can turn out to be enemies

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That Was Satire That Was: The Satire Boom of the 1960s brave memoir The Trap: Sometimes your friendsForty years ago, at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, four young men walked on to a stage and produced a flow of staggeringly inspired comic genius. In Beyond the Fringe, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett created a satirical revue which amazed the critics and the public, selling out night after night. Soon the satire virus spread: The Establishment Club, 'London's first satirical nightclub', opened its doors in Soho; a scruffy