eYE Marty: The newly discovered autobiography of a comic genius

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Feldman created a number of immensely successful and influential shows, and 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).

In 1974, Dennis Main Wilson produced a short BBC sketch series for Feldman titled Marty Back Together Again—a reference to reports about the star's health—but it never captured the impact of the earlier series.

Often a chapter will begin discussing something, then jump forward 2 years, and back again without any strong sense of time. Feldman created a number of immensely successful and influential shows such as Marty, The Frost Report and sketches for Monty Python.

Tanti, troppi dettagli sui contratti televisivi e radiofonici, dicevo, contrapposti a una scarsa capacità narrativa vera e propria: mancano le sequenze, ci sono salti temporali, non si capisce bene quando si svolgano certe situazioni e, se non fossero indicati gli anni in alcuni momenti, ci si troverebbe in un vero e proprio limbo narrativo. La biografia di Marty Feldman ricalca la falsariga di molti altri personaggi famosi, in modo particolare dei comici: spesso l’uomo che va in scena è molto diverso da quello che vive il quotidiano e spesso l’allegria che riescono a trasmettere al pubblico non corrisponde a quella nel loro cuore. Flanagan told the Sunday Times: ‘It’s Marty’s story from his impoverished childhood in East London in the 1930s to all the famous people he knew, like David Frost, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle.

This cornucopia of random scribbling, family photos, Milliganesque poems, philosophical and political musings and insight into writing comedy explains Feldman's magpie-like mind. His unpublished biography was discovered in his former Los Angeles home by nightclub owner Mark Flanagan, who inherited the property from Feldman’s widow, Lauretta. Equally, it was interesting to plot his journey to Hollywood, and unfortunately his fall from grace. He died of a heart attack [10] in a hotel room in Mexico City on December 2, 1982 at age 48 [6] during the making of the film Yellowbeard; the film was subsequently dedicated to him. It was a face that David Frost, one of his bosses, characterised as 'too grotesque' for television -- see what Feldman has to say about Frost, and Francis Bacon, and John Lennon.

Leaving school at 15, Feldman worked at the Dreamland funfair in Margate, [8] but had dreams of a career as a jazz trumpeter, and performed in the first group in which tenor saxophonist Tubby Hayes was a member. Marty not only talks about his experiences from early childhood right up to a few days before his tragic end but he also philosophises about life, love the universe and everything. So far the writing is unclear in that certain terms that are not in use lately aren't explained well. The Chalke History Festival announces a new name, new look, and tons for history buffs to get their teeth into! He was an architect of British comedy, paving the way for Monty Python, and then became a major Hollywood star, forever remembered as Igor in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein .

Nel caso di Marty Feldman le cose stanno un po’ a metà; Robert Ross, autore del libro, racconta bene soprattutto l’adolescenza del ribelle Martin che spazia tra esperienze e iniziative a dir poco stravaganti.

As with all good books, I found myself both wanting to read all night, and also wanting to delay finishing it. No one has ever made me laugh as hard as Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein, he was pure comic perfection. The other three performers -- future Pythons Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and future Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor needed a fourth and had Feldman in mind. my generation who loved Marty Feldman will be enthralled by this honest self appraisal of a life which began with so many disadvantages. I think I just don't know enough about Marty Feldman and I am even less interested in English life to care to look up the many expressions in this book.He talks openly of taking BBC producers to strip clubs to try and find females willing to be on Comedy sketch shows (the implication that no serious actress at the time would be willing to do these jobs). A childhood injury, a car crash, a boating accident, and reconstructive eye surgery may also have contributed to his appearance. Like another genius before him Buster Keaton he was chewed up by a medium that didn’t know what to do with him.