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Welcome to the world of Vic Reeves: 'Jan 1 - I rise and decide to design a new type of hat. The place I choose to work this morning is underneath the bath. A safe place if any. My designs are at first sketchy, looking more like a fat young boythan a hat, but by 6pm my design is complete and ready to be sent to Dunn and Co. for approval. I hope they like it. I think it would suit a more formal gentleman like a king or Harrison Ford!' Packed with paintings and drawings by the author,SUN BOILED ONIONS will take you on a surreal journey. Including hilarious fictional diaries, modern fables, mysterious ramblings. SUN BOILED ONIONS is a treasure trove of visual style and eclectic ideas. Guaranteed to intrigue and entertain.

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New Year's Day, 1999. Vic Reeves wakes up to discover a flock of seven white doves of peace flying around his bedroom, "casting a Disneylike sense of well-being about." However, all is not well; Vic re- awakens several hours later to discover that the doves have stolen his prized bust of Caligula: "a foreboding sense of gloom now hangs over the home". So begins Vic Reeves' Sunboiled Onions, a fictional diary packed with Vic's own paintings and drawings of a month in the mind of one of the UK's most popular comedians.

Like his TV series with sidekick Bob Mortimer, Sunboiled Onions has a surreal menace in its humour, reflected in Vic's weird drawings of famous figures, which are often uncannily accurate yet strangely disconcerting with their eyes drawn too far apart. Elvis crops up throughout the book, appearing as Sir Walter Raleigh in King Lear (naked from the waist down, of course), buying fan heaters from Argos with Frank Sinatra and ironing his slacks in his bucolic cottage. Alongside such reveries, Vic deals with the problems of his everyday life: "January 10--Flies swarm around the pork in my attic, so I get rid of it, all 150 lbs of it, in a ditch near B&Q". Along the way, Vic muses on various celebrities and their foibles, including Michael Jackson, Abba, Henry VIII, Eric Morecombe and Richard Nixon. Those who love Reeves and Mortimer will celebrate Sunboiled Onions as another manifestation of the genius of the man they call the Darlington Dadaist. --Jerry Brotton

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Vic Reeves' hit TV shows with Bob Mortimer include The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Shooting Stars and, in 1999, Families at War and the re-make of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
Vic is one of the country's most popular and high profile comedians. He lives in Kent.

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  • PublisherMichael Joseph
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0718143965
  • ISBN 13 9780718143961
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages160
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