Synopsis
Stand-up routines that have set the comedy standard. A unique book and audio CD gift package. With an introduction to each artist, transcripts and audio of the routines and special added extra material, we bring you: Rory Bremner, the best impressionist in the world, doing Prince Charles; Monty Python's unmatched, Dead Parrot; Eddie Izzard's bizarre world at its height in Cats & Dogs; Lenny Henry's Brixton wide-boy Delbert Wilkins; Rowan Atkinson & Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen get stuck in a spiral of one-downmanship; Steve Coogan's chain-smoking, masturbating alter-ego; Paul Calf; Pete & Dud sending up British reserve in The Psychiatrist; Jo Brand, the queen of British stand up, on Hastings; Peter Cook & Rowan Atkinson giving their prophetic, comedic best in The End of the World; and, Bill Hicks, the late American comedy supreme, asking another of his penetrating questions in What is Pornography? It also features: Sean Hughes, Greg Proops, Arnold Brown,and, Vic & Bob. 'Dogs go woo-ooh and cats go [purring sound] because they're drilling, aren't they? That's what they're doing. They're drilling. They drill for gold. They drill for oil. They drill for anything just for the love of drilling. When they're behind your sofa, they're just drilling [purring sound]' - Eddie Izzard.
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Mike O'Brien is part of the comedy-scene elite that grew up in the eighties. He is the director of the Laughing Stock comedy record and video label. Bruce Dessau is a renowned comedy journalist and the author of several books about comedians, including Rowan Atkinson, Billy Connelly, Victoria Wood and Reeves & Mortimer. He writes for the Guardian, Time Out and the Evening Standard.
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