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Roy Hudd's career began in the 1950s and since then he has worked with most of the major stars of the last forty years. His career as an entertainer began as a Butlin's "Redcoat" with Cliff Richard, and since then he has worked with such greats as Tommy Cooper, Tony Hancock, Larry Grayson and Morecambe and Wise, and has become one of Britain's best-loved entertainers. Roy's was born in Croydon in 1936, where he had a turbulent family life. His father left home and his mother committed suicide during the war, leaving his formidable, but adored grandmother, to raise him, and it was she who gave him the title for this book. Now in his seventies, Roy's TV and radio CV is highly impressive. His big television break came with "Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life" with David Frost, John Bird and John Fortune and he also had a brief stint in the popular TV soap "Coronation Street". His radio career includes the hugely popular "The News Huddlines", which he starred in and ran for twenty-six years. With over thirty pantomimes under his belt, as well as many memorable Variety and West End performances, perhaps most notably as Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh's first production of "Oliver!" , "A Fart in a Colander" brings together some wonderful stories from his life, and sparkles with the fun and laughter Roy has brought to millions of people throughout his career.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #162 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

As funny and engaging as the man himself
Roy Hudd is a national institution (no doubt he would make a gag about not wanting to live in one). His beaming and mischievous grin has been entertaining the British public for years.
In his autobiography he tells it like it is - or was - a no nonsense, but always entertaining and enjoyable excursion through the highways and byways of his life. I was a particular fan of his radio show - "The News Huddlines" - which always seemed to put a smile on my face with its infectious joie de vivre. Somehow life itself seems greyer and less comical than it did (we can only blame the government for about 90% of it) and perhaps its because our entertainers too have lost the ability to laugh at themselves - yet Roy never did, and we love him all the more for it. A great read.

One fart on another!
Roy Hudd has written a book that is easy to read, witty, very informative, and one that is not going to be put down easily. Whereas today, so many autobiographies are written by people who have not even begun to live, this is about a man who has lived through good times and bad, and who tells it as it took place.
As a child, I remember seeing Hudd in pantomime, in Oxford; I thought him a decent sort from that day to this, and his book merely serves to amplify that feeling.
This book is wonderful, well written, and about an interesting subject - above that, it is well worth reading. Buy it!

A fart in a colander
An excellent autobiography, I laughed from start to finish.
I could hear Roy Hudd talking