Pigs Can Fly
Throughout his career, Barry Cryer has collaborated with all the greats, such as Max Miller, Tony Hancock, Bob Hope, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John Cleese, Kenny Everett, Tommy Cooper, Spike Milligan, Morecambe and Wise, and more. He has also collaboratively penned series like Hello Cheeky!,...
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Throughout his career, Barry Cryer has collaborated with all the greats, such as Max Miller, Tony Hancock, Bob Hope, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John Cleese, Kenny Everett, Tommy Cooper, Spike Milligan, Morecambe and Wise, and more. He has also collaboratively penned series like Hello Cheeky!, toured with Willie Rushton in their show Two Old Farts in the Night, and is a panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. This is his collection of completely true apocryphal stories from these 50 years, packed with jokes, fascinating asides, and riveting portraits of the major figures in comedy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780752859194 (0752859196)
Publish date: September 1st 2003
Publisher: Orion Publishing
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
bookshelves: spring-2014, published-2003, nonfiction, amusing, britain-england, biography, fraudio, under-50-ratings, tbr-busting-2014 Read on May 08, 2014 Read by the man himself. 1 hr 14 minsDescription: Throughout his career, Barry Cryer has collaborated with all the greats, such as Max Mille...
More a stream of conciousness than a coherent text, it's full of anecdotes that Cryer relates about the many people he has worked with, written for and just met (or nearly met in some cases). Some of them are very amusing. I can see this might be better in audiobook.