Cambridge College Denver

Cambridge College Denver

Cambridge College Denver

When you tour the university city of Cambridge, whose university history dates back to 1209, you are walking in the footsteps of people like John Maynard Keynes, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Byron and William Wordsworth. In addition to these notable names, though, the city has also produced some of Britain's best comedians and comic actors.

The focus for most was the famous Footlights, the University’s Dramatic Club. In the late 1950s it produced Beyond the Fringe. This satirical show transformed comedy in Britain when it transferred to London’s West End and then to Broadway, teaming Cambridge’s Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller with Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett from Oxford. Soon ex-Cambridge students were involved in successful TV shows such as Monty Python, The Goodies and FawltyTowers.