Deze auteur legt populaire culturele instellingen meesterlijk vast met kennis en genegenheid, en vermijdt behendig de valkuilen van nerdachtig fanboyisme of grandioos pseudo-intellectualisme. Zijn zorgvuldige onderzoek levert resultaten op die opmerkelijk leesbaar, verhelderend en verrukkelijk zijn. Het werk is een levendige, hartverwarmende viering van een ongelooflijke prestatie in comedyproductie. Het is essentiële lectuur voor elke uitgebreide comedybibliotheek.
"Despite the wealth of Beatles books in the world, nobody has ever examined and celebrated the Fab Four's real X factor - the bands humor. If there was any one thing which separated these four Liverpool lads from all their competitors, it had to be the mad, witty knockabout laughs they generated and enjoyed wherever they went..."--Page 4 of cover
The finest, funniest stories of England, Scotland & Wales, refreshed for the 21st century. By Brother Bernard, as told to Jem Roberts.
'It's a great missing piece of the jigsaw - people go on endlessly about Python and Peter Cook, which is all well and good but there's basically this great corpus of work stretching for decades - and consistently good ...
Tells the story of author's explosive but agonizingly constructed fictional universe, from his initial inspirations to the posthumous sequel(s) and adaptations, bringing together a thousand tales of life as part of the British Comedy movements of the late 70s and 80s along the way.
The first-ever full official story of Fry and Laurie, containing never-before-seen archive material.
The Unadulterated Tale of the Creation of a Comedy Legend
British history as we know it is a cluttered patchwork of questionable stories which have been rewritten, reevaluated, and ridiculed, and yet there is still an unquestioned narrative thread which runs through the nation's historical record, accepted as the factual history. But final editorial control has always belonged to the winners. And nobody likes winners ... This will be this the very first in-depth examination of the creation of a British institution like no other, arguably the greatest sitcom of all time. With the participation—so far—of Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, and producer John Lloyd, this will be the definitive history of the program. The author will use all existing archive footage and rare literature, plus new revelations from personal interviews with the makers themselves, to finally reflect on the full scope of the tale of how the 1970s alumni of three great universities—Oxford, Cambridge, and not Hull, but Manchester—discovered a unique chemistry that would see them build a timeless comic masterpiece. Published in autumn 2012 for the 30th anniversary of the original pilot. At last Blackadder enthusiasts can now uncover THE cunning plan, in all its hideous hilarity.