- Monty Python (Comedy troupe), Motion picture actors and actresses, Biography, Comedians
In this rollicking memoir, Cleese takes his readers on a Grand Tour of his ascent in the entertainment world, from his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town and his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman), to the founding of the landmark comedy troupe that would propel him to worldwide renown.
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Warm, comic, classical in form and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- John Cleese
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 396
- Publisher
- Crown Archetype, Penguin Random House, Three Rivers Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847946973
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