So Anyway...: The Autobiography - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 009958008X ISBN 13: 9780099580089

Casa editrice: Arrow, 2025

Riassunto

Un'autobiografia sincera e brillantemente divertente. su come un ragazzo alto e timido di Weston-super-Mare sia diventato una leggenda della comicità. Nel frattempo, John Cleese descrive la sua prima snervante apparizione pubblica alla St. Peter's Preparatory School all'età di otto anni e cinque sesti; la sua vita familiare infinitamente itinerante con genitori che sembravano incapaci di restare in una casa per più di sei mesi; le sue prime esperienze nel mondo del lavoro come insegnante che non sapeva nulla delle materie che avrebbe dovuto insegnare; i suoi giorni da proprietario di criceti a Cambridge; e il suo primo incontro con l'uomo che sarebbe stato il suo partner di scrittura per oltre due decenni, Graham Chapman. E così via fino alla sua vertiginosa ascesa attraverso la scrittura di sceneggiature per Peter Sellers, David Frost, Marty Feldman e altri fino alle vette dei Monty Python. Intervallato di tanto in tanto dai pensieri di John Cleese su argomenti diversi come la natura della commedia, i meriti relativi del cricket e dello sci d'acqua e l'importanza di conoscere le date di tutti i re e le regine d'Inghilterra, questa è un'interpretazione magistrale di un ex maestro di scuola.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John Marwood Cleese was born in 1939 in Weston-Super-Mare. He studied Law at Cambridge University and has enjoyed a successful career in comedy, theatre, film and television.

He first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.

In the mid-1970s, Cleese and his first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. Later, he co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. He has appeared in many other films, including the James Bond films, Harry Potter and Shrek and has guest-starred in numerous TV shows.

Dalla quarta di copertina

A candid and brilliantly funny memoir... ...of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed comedy legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-wracking first public appearance at St Peter’s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths;

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter's Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six months; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man who would be his writing partner for over two decades, Graham Chapman. And so on to his dizzying ascent via scriptwriting for Peter Sellers, David Frost, Marty Feldman and others to the heights of Monty Python.

Punctuated from time to time with John Cleese's thoughts on topics as diverse as the nature of comedy, the relative merits of cricket and waterskiing, and the importance of knowing the dates of all the kings and queens of England, this is a masterly performance by a former schoolmaster.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Arrow
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 009958008X
• ISBN 13: 9780099580089
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 174
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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