'It's not like other comedians' memoirs. It's funny.' Guardian
L'autobiografia di Alexei Sayle Serie
Questa serie offre uno sguardo profondo, spiritoso e spesso incredibilmente schietto sulla vita di uno dei comici più distintivi della Gran Bretagna. Segui un viaggio pieno di colpi di scena, dall'infanzia in una famiglia operaia fino all'apice della scena comica. Ogni libro è ricco di umorismo unico e osservazioni acute, che rivelano non solo il dietro le quinte dello spettacolo, ma anche commenti sociali dell'epoca. È una lettura che ti farà ridere e, allo stesso tempo, ti spingerà a riflettere sul tuo percorso.
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Thatcher Stole My Trousers
- 336pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
'Enlightening ... Funny, smart, original and provocative ... It is hard to imagine the stalwarts of Mock the Week recognising the Druze militia leader Walid Jumblatt in a London cinema' NEW STATESMAN'Few standups have come close to capturing a fraction of this creative energy in a book ... Alexei Sayle is an exception' GUARDIAN"What I brought to comedy was an authentic working-class voice plus a threat of genuine violence - nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case who'd kick your head in."In 1971, comedians on the working men's club circuit imagined that they would be free to continue telling their tired, racist, misogynistic gags forever. But their nemesis, a nineteen-year-old Marxist art student, was slowly coming to meet them...Thatcher Stole My Trousers chronicles a time when comedy and politics united in electrifying ways. Recounting the founding of the Comedy Store, the Comic Strip and the Young Ones, and Alexei's friendships with the comedians who - like him - would soon become household names, this is a unique and beguiling blend of social history and memoir. Fascinating, funny, angry and entertaining, it is a story of class and comedy, politics and love, fast cars and why it's difficult to foul a dwarf in a game of football.