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Thatcher Stole My Trousers (Paperback, Export/Airside) Loot Price: R336
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Thatcher Stole My Trousers (Paperback, Export/Airside): Alexei Sayle

Thatcher Stole My Trousers (Paperback, Export/Airside)

Alexei Sayle

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'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 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 go on telling their tired, racist, misogynistic gags forever but their nemesis, a 19 year old Marxist art student with a bizarre concern for the health of British manufacturing was slowly coming to meet them. Through the next decade Alexei Sayle would be a student at Chelsea Art School, a clerk in a DHSS office (where nobody did any work), one of London's bottom ten freelance illustrators, a school dinner lady and a college lecturer (who kidnapped his students), before he became the original MC of London's first modern comedy club, the Comedy Store, and the landscape of British comedy was altered forever. Thatcher Stole My Trousers chronicles a time when comedy and politics came together in electrifying ways. Recounting the opening season of the Comedy Store, Alexei's experiences with Alternative Cabaret, the Comic Strip and the Young Ones, and his 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.

General

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2016
Authors: Alexei Sayle
Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 336
Edition: Export/Airside
ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-6456-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Individual actors & performers
Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-4088-6456-8
Barcode: 9781408864562

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