The Fully Authorised History of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: The Clue Bible from Footlights to Mornington Crescent

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Penguin Random House, 2010 - Humor - 466 pages
RADIO. 'It's a great missing piece of the jigsaw - people go on endlessly about Python and Peter Cook, which is all well and good but there's basically this great corpus of work stretching for decades - and consistently good...A major piece of work, and universally loved'. So says John Lloyd, brains behind "Blackadder", "QI", "Spitting Image", and so much besides - all shows with a massive debt to "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again" and "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue". Together they form a body of work stretching across five decades, from Cambridge in 1960 to today's world-beating "Antidote" to "Panel Games", a laughter-bringer which has inspired unparalleled adoration in millions over fifty series. This book tells the whole story, from Footlights to Broadway to the ferret-filled madness of Radio Prune - comedy's answer to the rock & roll revolution of the sixties.

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About the author (2010)

Jem Roberts is the author of The Clue Bible (2009), The True History of the Black Adder (2013) and The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2015). He has also written for the Independent, the Telegraph and Total Film, among others, and is a trustee of the Bath Comedy Festival. jemroberts.com/@jemroberts

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