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Crown Archetype
November 2014
On Sale: November 4, 2014
400 pages
ISBN: 038534824X
EAN: 9780385348249
Kindle: B00KAFVNY2
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Humor
John Cleese’s huge comedic influence has stretched across
generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand
of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty
Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy’s DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway…, Cleese takes readers
on a Grand Tour of his ascent in the entertainment world,
from his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town and his
early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future
Python partner Graham Chapman), to the founding of the
landmark comedy troupe that would propel him to worldwide
renown. Cleese was just days away from graduating Cambridge and
setting off on a law career when he was visited by two BBC
executives, who offered him a job writing comedy for radio.
That fateful moment—and a near-simultaneous offer to take
his university humor revue to London’s famed West
End—propelled him down a different path, cutting his teeth
writing for stars like David Frost and Peter Sellers, and
eventually joining the five other Pythons to pioneer a new
kind of comedy that prized invention, silliness, and absurdity. Along the way, he found his first true love with the actress
Connie Booth and transformed himself from a reluctant
performer to a world class actor and back again. Twisting and turning through surprising stories and
hilarious digressions—with some brief pauses along the way
that comprise a fascinating primer on what’s funny and
why—this story of a young man’s journey to the pinnacle of
comedy is a masterly performance by a master performer.
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