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EPISODE · Dec 13, 2016 · 10 MIN

So, Anyway... by John Cleese

from Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Murray Dickens

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So, Anyway... Author: John Cleese Narrator: John Cleese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 9 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “John Cleese’s memoir is just about everything one would expect of its author—smart, thoughtful, provocative and above all funny. . . . A picture, if you will, of the artist as a young man.”—The Washington Post   The legendary writer and performer of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame takes readers on a grand tour of his ascent in the entertainment world   John Cleese’s huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected now seem written into comedy’s DNA. In this rollicking memoir, Cleese recalls his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town, his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman), and the founding of the landmark comedy troupe that would propel him to worldwide renown. Cleese was just days away from graduating Cambridge and setting off on a law career when he was visited by two BBC executives, who offered him a job writing comedy for radio. That fateful moment—and a near-simultaneous offer to take his university humor revue to London’s famed West End—propelled him down a different path, cutting his teeth writing for stars like David Frost and Peter Sellers, and eventually joining the five other Pythons to pioneer a new kind of comedy that prized invention, silliness, and absurdity. Along the way, he found his first true love with the actress Connie Booth and transformed himself from a reluctant performer to a world class actor and back again.   Twisting and turning through surprising stories and hilarious digressions—with some brief pauses along the way that comprise a fascinating primer on what’s funny and why—this story of a young man’s journey to the pinnacle of comedy is a masterly performance by a master performer.

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So, Anyway... Author: John Cleese Narrator: John Cleese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 13, 2016...

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