Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin shekaru goma masu zuwa, membobin Footlights sun mamaye wasan kwaikwayo na Burtaniya, suna kirkirar da kuma nunawa a cikin shirye-shirye kamar "Ba wai kawai... Amma Har ila yau", "Na yi hakuri, Zan Karanta Wannan Sake", "A Karshe 1948 Show", "Wannan shi ne mako da aka yi da kuma Jagoran Hitchhiker zuwa Galaxy", kafa ƙungiyoyi masu ban dariya kamar Monty Python, da The Goodies, kuma gabaɗaya suna haifar da tashin hankali. A lokacin shekarun 1980, Footlights ya karfafa matsayinsa a zuciyar wasan kwaikwayo na Burtaniya. Binciken 1981, wanda ya nuna Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Tony Slattery, Penny Dwyer da Paul Shearer, sun lashe kyautar Perrier Award
a Edinburgh Fringe Festival kuma ya haifar da Fry da Laurie, na farko a cikin dogon layi na shahararrun kuma masu cin nasara biyu da aka kafa a kulob din ciki har da Armstrong da Miller da Mitchell da Webb. Binciken da suka yi, The Cellar Tapes, a St Mary Street Hall an gabatar da shi a matsayin "binciken shekara-shekara: daya daga cikin 'yan wasan da suka fi karfi a cikin shekaru da yawa, ya riga ya ziyarci kudancin Ingila tare da babban nasara".