The Best British Stand-Up and Comedy Routines - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786718587 ISBN 13: 9780786718580

Publisher: Running Press, 2006

Synopsis

With an introduction to each artist, transcripts and audio of the routines and special added extra material bring you the following. Rory Bremner, the best impressionist in the world, does Prince Charles Monty Python's unmatched Dead Parrot Eddie Izzard's bizarre world reaches its height in Cats and Dogs Lenny Henry does Delbert Wilkins, the Brixton wide-boy born of the famous 80s riots Rowan Atkinson and Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen get stuck in a spiral of one-downmanship Steve Coogan introduces his chain-smoking alter-ego Paul Calf (not to be confused with Pauline Calf) Pete and Dud send up British reserve and push each other to the limits of comic invention in The Psychiatrist Jo Brand, the queen of British stand up, on the attractions of her birthplace, Hastings Peter Cook and Rowan Atkinson give their prophetic, comedic best in The End of the World Bill Hicks, the late American comedy supreme, asks another of his penetrating questions in "What is Pornography?"

About this title

About the Author:

Mike O'Brien is part of the comedy-scene elite that grew up in the eighties. He is the director of the Laughing Stock comedy record and video label. Bruce Dessau is a renowned comedy journalist and the author of several books about comedians, including Rowan Atkinson, Billy Connelly, Victoria Wood and Reeves & Mortimer. He writes for the Guardian, Time Out and the Evening Standard.

About this edition

• Publisher: Running Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0786718587
• ISBN 13: 9780786718580
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: O'Brien Mike