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footlights

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If you're in Cambridge at Christmastime, the Footlights Panto is not to be missed - but book very early.

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Quick take

The Cambridge Footlights, commonly referred to simply as Footlights, is a student sketch comedy troupe located in Cambridge, England.

Meaning at a glance

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N

The Cambridge Footlights, commonly referred to simply as Footlights, is a student sketch comedy troupe located in Cambridge, England.

N

a 1921 American silent film romantic drama directed by John S. Robertson.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for footlights.

N

The Cambridge Footlights, commonly referred to simply as Footlights, is a student sketch comedy troupe located in Cambridge, England.

N

a 1921 American silent film romantic drama directed by John S. Robertson.

Example sentences

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If you're in Cambridge at Christmastime, the Footlights Panto is not to be missed - but book very early.

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Consider the following photos[1][2] of Cambridge Footlights former members.

3

They are more varied than just perception at the footlights of our consciousness (cf Hurlburt): Imagination, inner voice, emotion, unsymbolized conceptual thinking as well as (our reconstructed view of our) perception.

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), which talks a lot about how he and Graham Chapman - two of the members of Monty Python - got their start in comedy in the Footlights at Cambridge.

5

There is an argument that Footlights continues to dominate a particular strain of "awkward Englishness" style comedy, i.e.

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Which would have also included funny, costumed college musical numbers, from their time in the Cambridge Footlights.

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It's notable just how many of the shows called out in this thread have links to the Cambridge Footlights.

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You look at the list of people who came and went through Footlights, and it's like reading a Who's Who of modern British comedy.

9

I think the legal standard is that he had to have finished an Oxbridge degree, or at least spent a semester in the Footlights.

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Footlights members may have produced Python and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", but it also gave us "Out of the Trees" (available on YouTube) and "Ayoade on Ayoade".

Quote examples

1

There is an argument that Footlights continues to dominate a particular strain of "awkward Englishness" style comedy, i.e.

2

Footlights members may have produced Python and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", but it also gave us "Out of the Trees" (available on YouTube) and "Ayoade on Ayoade".

Proper noun examples

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Which would have also included funny, costumed college musical numbers, from their time in the Cambridge Footlights.

2

It's notable just how many of the shows called out in this thread have links to the Cambridge Footlights.

3

You look at the list of people who came and went through Footlights, and it's like reading a Who's Who of modern British comedy.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use footlights in a sentence?

If you're in Cambridge at Christmastime, the Footlights Panto is not to be missed - but book very early.

What does footlights mean?

The Cambridge Footlights, commonly referred to simply as Footlights, is a student sketch comedy troupe located in Cambridge, England.

What part of speech is footlights?

footlights is commonly used as N.