What is The Young Ones?
Q: What is The Young Ones?
A: The Young Ones is a British sitcom that first aired in 1982 on BBC2.
Q: What type of humour is featured in The Young Ones?
A: The Young Ones features an anarchic sense of humour that made the actors famous in the UK during the 1980s.
Q: Where else was The Young Ones shown besides the UK?
A: The Young Ones was shown to Americans on MTV, being one of the first shows on the new channel that was not mostly about music.
Q: Who are the main characters in The Young Ones?
A: The main characters in The Young Ones are four college students sharing a house: violent punk rocker Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson), the stuck-up anarchist Rick (Rik Mayall), the suffering hippy Neil (Nigel Planer), and the mysterious Mike (Christopher Ryan).
Q: Who is Alexei Sayle's character in The Young Ones?
A: Alexei Sayle plays their landlord, Jerzei Balowski, and other members of the Balowski family.
Q: Where was The Young Ones set and filmed?
A: Although the series was set in North London, many outdoors scenes were filmed in Bristol.
Q: How was The Young Ones received?
A: The show was like a regular sitcom, with violent slapstick, silly turns in the plot, and surrealism. The show was voted #31 in the BBC's Best Sitcom poll in 2004.
