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Thatcher Stole My Trousers (Paperback)
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Thatcher Stole My Trousers (Paperback)
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Loot Price R315
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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 'Few standups have come close to capturing a fraction of
this creative energy in a book ... Alexei Sayle is an exception'
GUARDIAN "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 continue telling their tired, racist, misogynistic
gags forever. But their nemesis, a nineteen-year-old Marxist art
student, was slowly coming to meet them... Thatcher Stole My
Trousers chronicles a time when comedy and politics united in
electrifying ways. Recounting the founding of the Comedy Store, the
Comic Strip and the Young Ones, and Alexei's 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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