Farced Perspective

Author: The Python Perspective

A podcast looking back at comedies on key anniversaries to ask: what was innovative material then, what continues to be successful now, and what have people thought about it along the way?
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86: Farced Perspective, 10 March 1972: What's Up, Doc?
Episode 86
Saturday, 29 November, 2025

Anna and Ben sit down to visit the third most successful film of 1972, the slapstick comedy "What's Up, Doc?" They discuss how the film compares to its obvious antecedents and whether Streisand's character is more manipulative and callous than either Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" or any of Groucho's schemers, and whether Bugs Bunny's life has to be endangered to justify his actions. Of course you know that this means war...