The Comedy Man

by D. J. Taylor (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.29

  Looking back over a heady career, Ted King relives his heyday as a one half of comedy duo, when the BBC ruled the television waves, and the post-war era predominated. This novel traces traces his childhood from rural Yarmouth, his marriages and escape to London and showbiz.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $5.89

  D.J. Taylor's novel introduces the reader to comedy duo Ted King and Arthur Upward, who were, for a brief period in the late 1970s, the best-loved comedians on British television. Ten million people watched the Upward & King Show every week, and they rubbed shoulders with the stars for a few years - until the TV company pulled the plug. Twenty years later, Ted looks back on his years in the spotlight, always haunted by the fog-bound surroundings of his early life on the Norfolk coast, prompted by a documentary being made about the famous partnership. Ranging in time and place from rainswept Norfolk seafronts in the 1950s to 1960s Soho clubland, from bombs exploding in the Cyprus hills to Mosley's Daimler coursing through the East End, The Comedy Man is an unusual evocation of post-war English life.