Editing British sitcom (section)

===Galton and Simpson===
[[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton and Alan Simpson]] (1930–2018 and 1929–2017) wrote together for over 50 years; their most famous series were ''Hancock's Half Hour'' and ''Steptoe and Son''. Some of their scripts for Hancock almost repudiated a narrative structure altogether and attempted to reproduce an everyday environment with the intention of also reproducing its comedy. Both the character played by Tony Hancock in ''Hancock's Half Hour'', and [[List of Steptoe and Son characters#Harold Steptoe|Harold Steptoe]], played by [[Harry H. Corbett]], were pretentious would-be intellectuals who found themselves trapped by the squalor of their lives. The Galton and Simpson comedies were often characterised by a bleak and somewhat fatalistic tone. ''Steptoe and Son'' in particular was at times an example of [[black comedy]], and close in tone to [[Social realism]] drama.<ref name="GALTON"/>