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The People's Jesters: Twentieth Century British Comedians

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About the Book

An exercise in nostalgia, with its perceptive and amusing profiles of scores of well-loved and well-remembered comics, from George Robey and Will Hay, via Max Miller and Tommy Handley, to Tony Hancock and Morecambe and Wise. It is also an analysis of how comedians worked.

Table of Contents:
Contents 1. The Coming of the Comedians 7 2. From Music Hall to Variety 17 3. Seasonal Fruits:Pantomime Christmas crackers Pantomime 31 4. Seasonal fruits:seaside showssummer frolics 43 5. The advent of radio 55 6. The influence of cinema 69 7. Radio revisited 79 8. 'Our gangs': comic groups 91 9. Sketchiness: comedy playlets 103 10. 'Kindly leave the stage the double act story 113 11. Funny turns: speciality comedy 129 12. Are women funny? 'comediennes' 145 13th Regional effect: humour by areas 161 14. London laughs: metropolitan icons 179 15. Comedy alphabet: single comedians 187 16. Television: box of delights 193 17. Tivoli to telly:Britain's Best Comedians 211 Index 219

About the Author :
Eric Midwinter's lifelong interest in comedians began 70 years ago when he saw Albert Modley in a Manchester pantomime. He thus brings untold memories, as well as his noted skills as a well-known social historian and commentator, to the task of describing and judging the major age of the comedians. The author of over fifty books, many of them dealing with social life and leisure activity in the 19th and 20th centuries, he prepared a dozen or so 'lives' of comedians for the New Dictionary of National Biography (2004), and, in The People's Jesters, he revisits, updates and widens his critically acclaimed 1979 study, Make 'Em Laugh; Famous Comedians and Their Worlds.

Review :
"Meticulously reseached and vastly entertaining The People's Jesters is a major work on the British variety theatre which deserves to be read." (Patrick Newley, The Stage Newspaper).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781898576259
  • Publisher: Third Age Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Third Age Press
  • Height: 246 mm
  • Sub Title: Twentieth Century British Comedians
  • ISBN-10: 1898576254
  • Publisher Date: 09 Mar 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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