- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Century; First English Edition, First Impression edition (17 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0712677070
- ISBN-13: 978-0712677073
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 425,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bob Monkhouse has been in show business for over 45 years and is one of Britain's most enduring comedians. This second volume of his memoirs combines personal disclosures with anecdotes and revelations about the stars he has known.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I expected this second book to pick up where the first biography Crying With laughter had left off. Perhaps a collection of racier and more litigious stories of the scrapes Bob and his friends and colleagues had gotten themselves into during his eventful career combined with insightful and poignant views of the famous and not so famous he currently knew and had known.
Disappointingly this additional book was more the combined off cuts from the cutting room floor of the first and his day to view diary from the mid 1990s. Details of airports, hotels and venues left me bored while the majority of the anecdotes did not match the touching honesty and laugh out loud quality gags and puns from Crying With Laughter.
I'd expected a tell 'em straight, no punches pulled signing off memoir from this great comedian's life but sadly it's more like a contractual filler.
Disappointingly this additional book was more the combined off cuts from the cutting room floor of the first and his day to view diary from the mid 1990s. Details of airports, hotels and venues left me bored while the majority of the anecdotes did not match the touching honesty and laugh out loud quality gags and puns from Crying With Laughter.
I'd expected a tell 'em straight, no punches pulled signing off memoir from this great comedian's life but sadly it's more like a contractual filler.
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Bob Monkhouse Over The Limit - My Secret Diaries 1993-8
These are not just diaries.....
This book is a tutorial - a master class on the history of comedy. Bob Monkhouse expounds in beautiful prose on what comedy is and what makes a great comedian. As Bob himself says of his book Bob Monkhouse Over The Limit - My Secret Diaries 1993-8: ".. a two-ton box of chocolates with no guide on the lid as to what's in the centres " or again " a collection of memoirs....strung along the chronological washing line of time...." Bob writes brilliantly and at length on many things including the comedy greats of yesteryear as well as on the more recent kings of comedy. We read hilarious stories and interesting anecdotes about the people Bob has worked with over his many years in comedy.
Among those mentioned are: Bing Crosby, Rex Harrison, Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper,Bruce Forsyth,Jimmy Tarbuck, Dick Emery, Frank Sinatra, Paul Merton,Jack Benny, Tony Hancock, Ken Dodd, Les Dawson, Benny Hill, Danny Kaye,John Cleese, Bob Hope - and the list goes on and on.Jeffrey Archer gets a mention,too and we get a laugh as well. This is a book to read and to dip into again and again. The book is full to bursting with real true stories. Bob's wit and wisdom shine through from every page of this genuinely funny, interesting and enthralling masterpiece.
Unputdownable!!
Buy it!! Read it and enjoy!!
Bob Monkhouse: Unpublished!
These are not just diaries.....
This book is a tutorial - a master class on the history of comedy. Bob Monkhouse expounds in beautiful prose on what comedy is and what makes a great comedian. As Bob himself says of his book Bob Monkhouse Over The Limit - My Secret Diaries 1993-8: ".. a two-ton box of chocolates with no guide on the lid as to what's in the centres " or again " a collection of memoirs....strung along the chronological washing line of time...." Bob writes brilliantly and at length on many things including the comedy greats of yesteryear as well as on the more recent kings of comedy. We read hilarious stories and interesting anecdotes about the people Bob has worked with over his many years in comedy.
Among those mentioned are: Bing Crosby, Rex Harrison, Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper,Bruce Forsyth,Jimmy Tarbuck, Dick Emery, Frank Sinatra, Paul Merton,Jack Benny, Tony Hancock, Ken Dodd, Les Dawson, Benny Hill, Danny Kaye,John Cleese, Bob Hope - and the list goes on and on.Jeffrey Archer gets a mention,too and we get a laugh as well. This is a book to read and to dip into again and again. The book is full to bursting with real true stories. Bob's wit and wisdom shine through from every page of this genuinely funny, interesting and enthralling masterpiece.
Unputdownable!!
Buy it!! Read it and enjoy!!
Bob Monkhouse: Unpublished!
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