Image for eYE Marty  : my life in words and pictures

eYE Marty : my life in words and pictures

See all formats and editions

Completed before he died, thirty years ago, this is the newly discovered autobiography of one of the most influential comedians of recent times, Marty Feldman.

Marty Feldman was one of the most essential creative forces in British comedy embodied also by his close friends and creative partners from Beyond the Fringe (especially Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) and Monty Python (especially John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle). Marty played the fool, often very happily and with tremendous talent and volcanic, anarchic energy, for his entire life.

Marty finished, and set aside eYE Marty soon before travelling to Mexico to shoot his final film.

He did not know that he would die there, although he certainly felt he might die soon, and was haunted by the notion.

The book is exactly as Feldman wrote it, with even the photos inserted where Feldman had noted they should go.

Hilarious, deeply charming, aphoristic, ironic, charged throughout with lust for life and filled with scenes of great vanished eras and and portraits of other performers and friends, eYE Marty is the amazing discovery of the story of a man who was at the heart of the British comedy revolution.

Read More
Available
£8.79 Save 20.00%
RRP £10.99
Add Line Customisation
Usually dispatched within 2 weeks
Add to List
Product Details
Coronet Books
1444792733 / 9781444792737
Paperback / softback
17/11/2016
United Kingdom
English
311 pages : illustrations (black and white)
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: 2015.