Saucy! Secrets Of The British Sex Comedy Review: The Funny Side Of A Blizzard Of Bare Bums – The Irish...

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The genre was instantly successful, as we hear early in the enjoyable Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Industry (Channel 4, Sunday, 9pm), with one contributor recalling how Adventures of a Taxi Driver – a blizzard of bare bums and knob gags – made more at the UK box office in 1976 than Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.

A more sober documentary would have used the sex comedy as a starting point for a deep dive into the British psyche. But Saucy! is here to celebrate, not to stroke its chin. With one or two caveats, the message is that the slap-and-tickle flicks of the 1970s represented a glorious moment in UK cinema.