Times have moved on, but t for Teddy Taylor, once one of the nation's top comedians. Teddy is plotting his way back to the top during a 1990's summer engagement in Great Yarmouth through a haze of booze, women and creditors. Facing declining audiences, The Teddy Taylor Show, with its dancers, beat-the clock and wet tee-shirt contests, and w eyebrow-raising jokes, is taking him ever further from where he sees as his rightful place. As the pressure builds and those around him, including Sylvia, his fourth (or is it fifth?) wife, try to keep him on the rails, Teddy spins further and further away from reality. And just who, Teddy wants to kw, is the young and heavily pregnant woman stalking him from the audience? 'The Count of Comedy' is a brilliant evocation of the British seaside milieu through the eyes of Teddy Taylor as he wanders through his, and the nation's, past and present.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ashgrove Publishing Ltd
ISBN-10
1853981818
ISBN-13
9781853981814
eBay Product ID (ePID)
190098267
Product Key Features
Author
Anthony Frewin
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Bath
Author Biography
Anthony Frewin was an assistant to the film director Stanley Kubrick for nearly thirty years. He has written some twelve books, the latest of which was an annotated bibliography of books that could almost exist but don't, The Secret Library of George Armoulian (Ashgrove, 2012). He lives in London.