BRITISH COMEDY GREATS - 2003 - GREAT BUY!

What would you nominate as the all-time great of British comedy?  Morecambe and Wise?  Monty Python?  The Office?  The British have always been famed for their sense of humour but what are its most lasting products the people, the programmes and the performances that will still be making people laugh, at the end of the twenty-first century?

This fascinating book is a roll-call of some of the iconic acts, shows and writers that make up the illustrious history of comedy on stage, screen and radio in the British Isles.  In a series of beautifully illustrated essays, some of our leading writers take a lively, personal and often provocative look at Britain's greatest comedic achievements and at some of the unforgettable people who helped to create them for us.

Among the comedy 'greats' to be found in these pages are individuals and double-acts such as Tommy Cooper, Billy Connolly and Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.  There are great comedy shows such as Beyond the Fringe, Dad's Army and Steptoe and Son.  There are classic British films and film-makers, including the Ealing Comedies and Charlie Chaplin.  There are even essays on such ground-breaking publications as Private Eye and Viz.

This isn't meant to be a definitive list.  How could it be given the extraordinary variety of British comedy in the last one hundred years?  But from Flanders and Swann to Fawlty Towers, from The Good Life to The Good Show, from Carry On to the Comedy Store, it represents the nominations of some of our best-known writers, commentators and performers, and celebrates along the way some of the magic, quirkiness and sheer irrepressible laughter-making which are the living legacy of British comedy.

This 192 page hardcover is illustrated with colour and black and white photographs.  The dustjacket has a little edgewear, but it is otherwise in a very good, tight, clean condition inside and out. 

This is a large heavy book and overseas customers should email me for a postage quote before bidding.

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