- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (15 Nov 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006370675
- ISBN-13: 978-0006370673
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 249,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Les Dawson was many things - slum kid, soldier, boxer, insurance agent, vacuum-cleaner salesman and one of Britain's best-loved comedians. In this autobiography he tells of ten hard years in the northern clubs, of his friends, his TV career and his illness.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The first part of his 2 part autobiography that is funny, sad and at amazing to learn the life he lead and the other side of a comic legend. Well worth buying - a classic
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A book to make you laugh. If you are a 'senior' you will share memories of times past when Les Dawson relates stories of his childhood. If you are not a 'senior' - one of the younger generation - you will still get a good belly-laugh from his hilarious jokes and cracks.
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A Clown Too Many-Les Dawson
28 Dec 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
A Clown Too Many is an autobiography of Les Dawson's rise to the top of the English entertainment world as a comic, from more than humble beginnings. It is not the typical rags to riches story, and reads like a comic/tragedy skit or movie. It seems on the one hand hard to believe that all that is written actually happened to one man in one lifetime, yet I have not the slightest reason to believe it didn't. This book had me alternately falling off my chair in laughter one minute, and uncomfortably sad the next. I couldn't tell you if Les is still alive. I know that I never saw any of his many English television shows. What I can tell you is that I do not know that I have ever read a more honest, entertaining and self effacing biography in my life. The man is brutally honest about himself, his strengths, his weaknesses, his mistakes and successes, and ultimately what is important in life. Hardly a word is wasted as he lovingly and entertainingly lays his life bare for all to enjoy and learn from. The rare combination of a book that both entertains and teaches. Long live A Clown Too Many.
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