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 STATESMANFew 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 workingclass voice plus a threat of genuine violence nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case whod kick your head in."In 1971, comedians on the working mens club circuit imagined that they would be free to continue telling their tired, racist, misogynistic gags forever. But their nemesis, a nineteenyearold Marxist art student, was slowly coming to meet themThatcher 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 Alexeis 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 its difficult to foul a dwarf in a game of football.

Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: APB; Weight: 400 g; Dimensions: 193 x 123 x 22

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