- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Andre Deutsch Ltd (22 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0233994114
- ISBN-13: 978-0233994116
- Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 22.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 906,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"I found this old violin and this old painting so I took them to an expert and he said, 'what you've got there is a Stradivarius and a Rembrandt. Unfortunately Stradivarius was a terrible painter and Rembrandt made rotten violins". Funny enough to reduce an audience to helpless tears of laughter? Maybe you had to be there. But that was always the way with Tommy Cooper. With his fez, bungled conjuring tricks, and material like that, he ruled the comedy world.
Jeremy Novick admits early on that to get a feel for Cooper it is no good just reciting his scripts. You really need to watch the tapes, or failing that, to talk to people who know about comedy. Eric Sykes for instance--"who bowed to no one when it came to comedy"--was utterly in awe of the man but in many ways Cooper's is a sad story. "There's only one trick that Tommy always does successfully", claimed his wife, "it's making a drink disappear". But ultimately, when he had his fatal coronary on the stage of her Majesty's Theatre in 1984, it was somehow fitting that at the very end he died as he lived; with people laughing at him. --Nick Wroe
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Some 14 years after his death, Tommy Cooper remains one of Britain''s best-loved comedians. Following his successful biography of Morecambe and Wise, Jeremy Novick l ooks back on Tommy''s life and career. '
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
I read this book after seeing Jeremy Novick on a couple of TV documentaries and was pleased to see that the warmth he seemed to feel for Tommy was replicated in the book.
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