So, Anyway...
The Autobiography
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So, Anyway...
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Narrated by:
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John Cleese
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By:
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John Cleese
About this listen
Read by John Cleese with an introduction by Michael Palin. This is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter’s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six months; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man who would be his writing partner for over two decades, Graham Chapman. And so on to his dizzying ascent via scriptwriting for Peter Sellers, David Frost, Marty Feldman and others to the heights of Monty Python. Includes archive clips of many of his most famous moments.
Punctuated from time to time with John Cleese’s thoughts on topics as diverse as the nature of comedy, the relative merits of cricket and waterskiing, and the importance of knowing the dates of all the kings and queens of England, this is a masterly performance by a former schoolmaster.
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I suspect Cleese's venom for journalists (particularly those unfortunate enough to have found employment with the daily mail) may have coloured their judgment.
This is a highly entertaining and beautifully read memoir. Looking forward to part 2... be warned that it ends where python starts...
Pythonic
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If you could sum up So, Anyway... in three words, what would they be?
Funny, interesting,Any additional comments?
I have to admit, I delayed listening to this audio-book, because i thought I wasn't going to enjoy it. Over the years, I've loved most of John Cleese's work, but I had got the impression that he isn't a very likeable person, so was anxious I might not enjoy it. I needn't have worried. It's extremely entertaining, and Cleese comes across as a likeable man, although you wouldn't want to cross him. I loved the way he regularly breaks into laughter as he reads, and I love the fact that he left these corpses in, rather than do a second take. Perhaps he was in a hurry to finish it! I finished this book very quickly, always a good sign.Much better than I had feared!
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It's also, in my view, less balanced than some might have expected. There is a very great deal of detail about Cleese's early life, but the story pretty much peters out around the time of Monty Python. His take on the production and recording of, say, Fawlty Towers, would have been good, but it merits hardly a word, as does much from the mid 1980s onwards.
Maybe he has a second volume in mind?
Good, but maybe hard-going at times.
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A great treat!
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Autobiography?
Far better. I don't want spoil anything so won't say anymore other than listen to it.
hilariously funny
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