- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: The Do-Not Press; New edition edition (13 Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1899344128
- ISBN-13: 978-1899344123
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 601,846 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mark Steel at his best,
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This review is from: It's Not a Runner Bean...: Dispatches from a Slightly Successful Comedian (Paperback)
I came across Mark Steel through his Guardian column and later Independent columns and then via his Radio 4 series to his stand-up show. There's no doubt that he is a very funny man. Then a friend recommended 'It's Not A Runner Bean', which is very possibly the best thing he's ever done. Told in short chapters, it offers snap-shots of Mark's rise and rise as a comedian. Best bits are encountering Jim 'Bullseye' Bowen on a TV talk show and the BBC producer who wouldn't change the words 'Radio One' to 'Radio Four' in his introduction because the scriptwriter had gone home. Funny, revealing and very rewarding....
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Laughed out loud, even at the sad bits,
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This review is from: It's Not a Runner Bean...: Dispatches from a Slightly Successful Comedian (Paperback)
They say you have to start out small, but not this small, surely. Steel joined the Foreign Legion of comedy, starting in Sierra Leone or Djibouti, whatever is the equivalent of pubs in the north where no one can hear your best lines, and even if they did, they wouldn't think they were funny. But he is amazingly funny. It might just be me, but the best bits are when he leaves the glam comedy stage to spend the night on some stranger's hard cold floor trying to avoid old discs of cat sick.Now he's a giant of Brit journalism, which makes it even funnier, actually.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Honest, no-frills account of a stand-up comedian.,
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This review is from: It's Not a Runner Bean...: Dispatches from a Slightly Successful Comedian (Paperback)
Really honest account of a stand-up comedian on tour. Steel is a master of his craft and it shows in this book. He has some gems of stories from his UK and Ireland tours. A great read.
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