'It's not like other comedians' memoirs. It's funny.' Guardian
La autobiografía de Alexei Sayle Serie
Esta serie ofrece una mirada profunda, ingeniosa y a menudo increíblemente sincera a la vida de uno de los comediantes más distintivos de Gran Bretaña. Sigue un viaje lleno de giros y vueltas, desde una infancia de clase trabajadora hasta la cúspide de la escena de la comedia. Cada libro está repleto de humor único y observaciones agudas, que revelan no solo el detrás de escena del mundo del espectáculo, sino también comentarios sociales de la época. Es una lectura que te hará reír y, al mismo tiempo, te invitará a reflexionar sobre tu propio camino.
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Thatcher Stole My Trousers
- 336 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
'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.
