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Thatcher Stole My Trousers (Paperback, Export/Airside)
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Thatcher Stole My Trousers (Paperback, Export/Airside)
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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.
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