Back in the 1970s, the nadir or zenith of British film was the “sex comedy” in which you found such scintillating series as The Adventures of …, The Confessions of .. and the tail end of the Carry On films.
Presenting their first live event since the launch of their successful podcast, The Unmitigated Bounders arrive at the Museum of Comedy for a bawdy evening of boobs, bums and double entendres in true seaside postcard style.
The Saucy Seventies is anything but politically correct, as evidenced by the poster image of a seedy Bob Todd as the spanking squire in the 1975 ‘classic’ of the genre, The Ups and Downs of a Handyman.
With the films presenting Sid James’s distinctive laugh, the buxon charms of Mary Millington and Diana Dors, or the ups and downs of Robin Askwith’s lives, they entertained a generation with cut price values and top flight character bits.
The Percy pair of films rubbed up against the work day shenanigans of The Amorous Milkman and the [Secrets of a] Door-to-Door Salesman. They were firmly in the Benny Hill camp, cheap, daft,and often borderline porn, although of the softest kind.
In their Unmitigated Bounders podcasts, notorious smut peddlars ‘Confessions’ Pete & Fred ‘Saucy Seventies’ Karno do a ruff dive into British culture from the 1970s & beyond.
So far, they have covered Pete Walker’s 1970 sleasy classic Cool It Carol!, the crazy Confessions films which traumatised so many, and whether Carry On Emmanuelle deserves its terrible reputation.
Head to Bloomsbury, perhaps stopping off to pay tribute to Kenneth Williams along the way, and enjoy clips, lots of trivia and sage critical insight, this is a show that any serious cinema lover cannot miss.
The Unmitigated Bounders present The Saucy Seventies is at the Museum of Comedy on 20 Jul at 2pm with tickets here.