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Funny, Peculiar

Author : Mark Lewisohn
Publisher : Pan Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780330393409
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Funny, Peculiar written by Mark Lewisohn and published by Pan Books Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benny Hill`s saucy smirks at underdressed women are relished the world over. Yet the comedian cut an unlikely figure of global admiration: unmarried and emotionally enfeebled in his few relationships, he was a deeply private individual uninterested in the trappings of success, a frugal man content to live in his humble childhood home flooded, freezing and burgled while his building society account bulged with millions of pounds he didn`t use and hadn`t wanted to earn. Funny, Peculiar is the first objective and full account of Benny Hill`s life and work. Tenaciously researched and yet sensitively reported, it charts the highs, lows and many paradoxes of a man whose professional strengths-observation, impression and mime-bought him unimagined success, and whose weakness, especially an inability to change, fashioned his ultimate downfall. - First in-depth biography since Benny`s death in April 1992. - A return to favour with audiences who are jaded with `alternative comedy`. - Existing biographies are unreliable, lightweight and out of date. - Benny has been screened in 109 countries, and enjoyed for over 50 years

The Strange and Saucy World of Benny Hill

Author : Dennis Kirkland
Publisher : Blake Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781857825459
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Strange and Saucy World of Benny Hill written by Dennis Kirkland and published by Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why did Benny Hill live the way he did? If he was so rich, why didn't he buy himself a beautiful home? Why did he never marry and did he only pretend to love the ladies? And whatever did he do with all that money? In this biography, Dennis Kirkland answers all these questions and more.

I Was Benny Hill's Toy Boy' -A Life in Variety

Author : Brian W. Kearney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955266133
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book I Was Benny Hill's Toy Boy' -A Life in Variety written by Brian W. Kearney and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kearney presents a revealing look into the life of Jon Jon Keefe, actor, comedian, singer, and companion to the stars. The text offers unique insight into Benny Hill, Billy Ekstein, Tony Bennett, Tommy Cooper, Jimmy Tarbuck, Dusty Springfield, and Eartha Kitt.

Fallen Stars

Author : Julian Upton
Publisher : Headpress
ISBN 13 : 9781900486385
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Fallen Stars written by Julian Upton and published by Headpress. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fallen Stars probes the underside of fame to reveal a host of glittering careers stunted by ill-health, alcoholism, drug addiction and egomania. Twenty-one tales of stardom turned sour, these are the tragic final years of some of the world's best-loved actors and comedians, a latter-day Hollywood Babylon that includes Benny Hill, Diana Dors, Peter Sellers, Carry On legends and many others.

Dead Funny

Author : Terry Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350032263
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Dead Funny written by Terry Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of my desperation I have been patient, in spite of my bewilderment I have been understanding, in spite of my feeling of utter abandonment ... I've been hanging on in there. Trying to help you come through this terrible thing. While Eleanor wants a child, her willing partner, Richard, is too busy running the Dead Funny Society. But in a week when British comedy heroes Frankie Howard and Benny Hill both kick the bucket, the society gather for a celebration, which promises to be full of hilarity and laughter – well, for everybody except the disgruntled Eleanor anyhow. Terry Johnson's hilarious comedy of mortality and marriage was premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in January 1994. This edition was published for the West End revival in October 2016 at the Vaudeville Theatre, London.

Pedro and Ricky Come Again

Author : Jonathan Meades
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783529512
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Pedro and Ricky Come Again written by Jonathan Meades and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark publication collects three decades of writing from one of the most original, provocative and consistently entertaining voices of our time. Anyone who cares about language and culture should have this book in their life. Thirty years ago, Jonathan Meades published a volume of reportorial journalism, essays, criticism, squibs and fictions called Peter Knows What Dick Likes. The critic James Wood was moved to write: ‘When journalism is like this, journalism and literature become one.’ Pedro and Ricky Come Again is every bit as rich and catholic as its predecessor. It is bigger, darker, funnier, and just as impervious to taste and manners. It bristles with wit and pin-sharp eloquence, whether Meades is contemplating northernness in a German forest or hymning the virtues of slang. From the indefensibility of nationalism and the ubiquitous abuse of the word ‘iconic’, to John Lennon’s shopping lists and the wine they call Black Tower, the work assembled here demonstrates Meades's unparalleled range and erudition, with pieces on cities, artists, sex, England, concrete, politics and much, much more.

The Tobacco Keeper

Author : Ali Bader
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9992194502
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book The Tobacco Keeper written by Ali Bader and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Arabic in 2008, The Tobacco Keeper relates the investigation of the life of a celebrated Jewish Iraqi musician who was expelled to Israel in the 1950s. Having returned to Iraq, via Iran, the musician is thrown out as an Israeli spy. Returning for the third time under a forged passport, he is murdered in mysterious circumstances. Arriving in Baghdad's Green Zone during the US-led occupation, a journalist writing a story about the musician's life discovers an underworld of fake identities, mafias and militias. Even among the journalists, there is a secret world of identity games, fake names and ulterior motives.

Good Stuff

Author : Jennifer Grant
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307596672
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Good Stuff written by Jennifer Grant and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Grant is the only child of Cary Grant, who was, and continues to be, the epitome of all that is elegant, sophisticated, and deft. Almost half a century after Cary Grant’s retirement from the screen, he remains the quintessential romantic comic movie star. He stopped making movies when his daughter was born so that he could be with her and raise her, which is just what he did. Good Stuff is an enchanting portrait of the profound and loving relationship between a daughter and her father, who just happens to be one of America’s most iconic male movie stars. Cary Grant’s own personal childhood archives were burned in World War I, and he took painstaking care to ensure that his daughter would have an accurate record of her early life. In Good Stuff, Jennifer Grant writes of their life together through her high school and college years until Grant’s death at the age of eighty-two. Cary Grant had a happy way of living, and he gave that to his daughter. He invented the phrase “good stuff” to mean happiness. For the last twenty years of his life, his daughter experienced the full vital passion of her father’s heart, and she now—delightfully—gives us a taste of it. She writes of the lessons he taught her; of the love he showed her; of his childhood as well as her own . . . Here are letters, notes, and funny cards written from father to daughter and those written from her to him . . . as well as bits of conversation between them (Cary Grant kept a tape recorder going for most of their time together). She writes of their life at 9966 Beverly Grove Drive, living in a farmhouse in the midst of Beverly Hills, playing, laughing, dining, and dancing through the thick and thin of Jennifer's growing up; the years of his work, his travels, his friendships with “old Hollywood royalty” (the Sinatras, the Pecks, the Poitiers, et al.) and with just plain-old royalty (the Rainiers) . . . We see Grant the playful dad; Grant the clown, sharing his gifts of laughter through his warm spirit; Grant teaching his daughter about life, about love, about boys, about manners and money, about acting and living. Cary Grant was given the indefinable incandescence of charm. He was a pip . . . Good Stuff captures his special quality. It gives us the magic of a father’s devotion (and goofball-ness) as it reveals a daughter’s special odyssey and education of loving, and being loved, by a dad who was Cary Grant.

Spare Rib Reader

Author : Marsha Rowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spare Rib Reader written by Marsha Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Antkind

Author : Charlie Kaufman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0399589694
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Antkind written by Charlie Kaufman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon . . . propelled by Kaufman’s deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull’s-eye wit."—The Washington Post “An astonishing creation . . . riotously funny . . . an exceptionally good [book].”—The New York Times Book Review • “Kaufman is a master of language . . . a sight to behold.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND MEN’S HEALTH B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film made by an enigmatic outsider—a film he’s convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made—a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete—B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: The film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius. All that’s left of this work of art is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the film that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of “likes” and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his bête noire and his raison d’être. A searing indictment of the modern world, Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself—the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.

Benny Hill - Merry Master of Mirth

Author : Robert Ross
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849942587
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Benny Hill - Merry Master of Mirth written by Robert Ross and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benny Hill is the best known and best loved British comedian on world television - from the USA to the Pacific Rim. Feted for his unique brand of coy awareness, innuendo and saucy songs - but seemingly out of favour in his homeland before his death - Benny Hill can now be rated as having had one of the foremost careers in comedy. Robert Ross tracks Hill's career through the landmark Independent Television specials, early parody sketches for the BBC, film appearances, radio shows and recordings - including the No. 1 hit 'Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West'. Ross examines Hill's skillful use of the fledgling TV medium, and celebrates the support of his regular back-up team (Bob Todd, Henry McGee and Nicholas Parsons). The truth is revealed about Hill's Angels and the alternative comedy backlash that saw Hill pushed off the small screen in the UK. Benny Hill is the ultimate guide to the most widely recognised funny man since Charlie Chaplin.

Captain Falsebeard in A Very Fishy Tale

Author : Fred Blunt
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141366672
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Captain Falsebeard in A Very Fishy Tale written by Fred Blunt and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet CAPTAIN FALSEBEARD and ADMIRAL SWINETOES Bitter enemies of the briny blue! When Captain Falsebeard discovers the legendary Crossbone treasure, he and his crew can't believe their luck! Until, that is, Falsebeard's arch enemy - the dastardly Admiral Swinetoes - determines to steal the booty - by any means possible. This first picture book by hilarious new storyteller, Fred Blunt, is a swashbuckling tale of battling pirates, stolen treasure, mermaids and - parrot poo!

The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus

Author : Monty Python
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0679726470
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus written by Monty Python and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1989-11-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***ALMOST CERTAINLY NOMINATED FOR SOMETHING SOMEWHERE*** The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes. Characters' names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appearance in each sketch. This first volume contains twenty-three classic episodes, featuring some of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere. The minister of silly walks, the dead parrot, banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly, satirical skit, every snide insult, every saucy aside.

The Essential Dave Allen

Author : Graham Mccann
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444717766
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Dave Allen written by Graham Mccann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dave Allen passed away in March 2005, we lost a true comedy great. Sitting cross-legged on a high stool, whiskey in one hand, cigarette in the other, Dave Allen's exasperated commentaries on the absurdities of modern life struck a chord with millions of fans in Britain, Ireland and Australia for over four decades. He was a compelling storyteller - able to spin shaggy dog stories out of the almost any subject, including the missing tip of his fourth finger of his left hand, for which he provided various unlikely explanations. But his gentle, laconic wit could also give way to ferocious attacks on the media, the state and, most famously, the Catholic Church. He was a unique talent - a comic who could make his audiences laugh, cry, and be shocked, all in one. This official celebration of Dave Allen's comedy has been drawn together by Graham McCann - Britain's best-loved entertainment writer. It is a treasure trove of stories, stand-up routines, sketches, interviews and photos, which takes us on a journey from the cradle to the grave. It will delight Dave Allen's million of fans, old and new alike. 'Dave Allen was our greatest storyteller and nobody ever came close to his ability to spin a yarn. He was unique, right up there with the greats.' Jack Dee

The Real Benny Hill

Author : Margaret Forwood
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780860518457
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book The Real Benny Hill written by Margaret Forwood and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Beginner's Guide to Acting English

Author : Shappi Khorsandi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0091924774
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book A Beginner's Guide to Acting English written by Shappi Khorsandi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1977 and life in Iran is becoming unpredictable. The Shah will be overthrown and events are about to take place on the world stage. But for five-year-old Shappi Khorsandi all this means is that she must flee, leaving behind a mad extended Iran clan and everything she has ever known.

Beyond a Joke

Author : Bruce Dessau
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099558270
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Beyond a Joke written by Bruce Dessau and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond a Joke is a celebration of comedy - one of the modern world's most dominant and compelling art forms - but it is also the story of comedy's dark side, homing in on the scandals that have surrounded some of light entertainment's biggest stars, and telling it as it is, featuring insight from one who was there at the time. While Beyond a Joke explores the extremes of this world it also addresses another question. Are comedians naturally dysfunctional, or does the stress and pressure of the job make them dysfunctional? Ruby Wax once told the author that she had builders in her house who were just as emotionally unstable as most stand-up comedians she had worked with. But they don't want to go on stage and plead with an audience to love them. Bruce Dessau is the only person who could write this book. From Russell Brand slashing his chest onstage to Jo Brand trashing a friend's car on the motorway, he has heard it all. Bruce Dessau knows where the bodies are buried.