Description
DESCRIPTION :
A candid and brilliantly funny memoir…
…of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed comedy legend.
En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-wracking first public appearance at St Peter’s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six months; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man who would be his writing partner for over two decades, Graham Chapman.
And so on to his dizzying ascent via scriptwriting for Peter Sellers, David Frost, Marty Feldman and others to the heights of Monty Python.
Punctuated from time to time with John Cleese’s thoughts on topics as diverse as the nature of comedy, the relative merits of cricket and waterskiing, and the importance of knowing the dates of all the kings and queens of England, this is a masterly performance by a former schoolmaster.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9780099580089 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Cleese, John | |
| PUBLISHER : Cornerstone | PUBLICATION DATE : June 01, 2015 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Arrow Books Ltd |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback |
DIMENSION : 198 mm x 129 mm
WEIGHT : 378 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
The Arts
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