Instant Sunshine

Actor · London, England

Instant Sunshine is an English musical comedy cabaret quartet formed in 1966. Consisting of three doctors from St Thomas Hospital in London—Peter Christie (words and music), David Barlow, and Alan Maryon-Davis (comic asides and sound effects)—the trio added a fourth member in 1972 with journalist and double bass player Miles Kington. In 1998, Kington departed and was replaced by Tom Barlow (no relation to David). As of 2017, the group recorded five vinyl LPs and were prominently featured on the second and third series of the obscure BBC sitcom One-Upmanship.

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Comedy
A quintessentially British comedy-of-manners. Based at the fictional Yeovil College of Lifemanship, Richard Briers plays Stephen Potter and is joined by Peter Jones as the snooty Gatling-Fenn and Frederick Jaeger, complete with monocle, playing Cogg-Willoughby. "The world is divided into two types of people," Potter says, "winners and losers, the one-up and the one-down. He who is not one-up is surely one-down".
One-Upmanship
1976 · 3 votes