The full BBC One series consists of three 30-minute programmes with 35 comedians, sewn together as if they were a single discussion.
The decision was taken early in the production process to film with three cameras, largely in close up, and with very sparing use of archive material.
Each show features five or six archive clips of a variety of other comedians past and present.
A spin-off series of six half-hour interviews, called Dawn French's More Boys Who Do Comedy, was transmitted on BBC Four,[1] slightly bizarrely before the main BBC One series transmitted.
The featured comedians were John Cleese, Graham Norton, Bill Bailey, Rob Brydon, Russell Brand and Ken Dodd.