Product Description

'It's a great missing piece of the jigsaw - people go on endlessly about Python and Peter Cook, which is all well and good but there's basically this great corpus of work stretching for decades - and consistently good. I mean very very few traditions...I can't think of one! I mean, Christ, it's forty-five years! A major piece of work, and universally loved.' So says John Lloyd, brains behind "Blackadder", "QI", "Spitting Image", and so much besides - all shows with a massive debt to "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" and "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue". Together they form a body of work stretching across five decades, from Cambridge in 1960 to today's world-beating "Antidote" to "Panel Games", a laughter-bringer which has inspired unparalleled adoration in millions over fifty series. "The Clue Bible" tells the whole story, from 'Footlights' to 'Broadway' to the ferret-filled madness of Radio Prune - comedy's answer to the rock & roll revolution of the sixties. Offering an exhaustive guide to the comedy world that brought us "Mornington Crescent", besides episode guides, glossaries and rare facsimiles, the book will take the story right up to the present day, celebrating the lives of Willie Rushton, Sir David Hatch and of course, the irreplaceable Humphrey Lyttelton. With exclusive input from the Teams, plus Bill Oddie, Stephen Fry and many more, this is the long overdue authoritative, entertaining and above all, very silly lasting celebration of an unsung comic legacy that both shows so richly deserve.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1001 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 386 pages

About the Author
Jem Roberts is a lifelong fan of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. He lives in Bath, where he runs the comedy sketch troupe The Unrelated Family, and plays the ukulele very badly.

Customer Reviews

Truly clueful book
I have wanted to read this book for about 15 years, so it's been very frustrating that nobody wrote it until now- but it was well worth waiting for!
If you like this kind of book, this is exactly the kind of book you'll like. It's well written, but more importantly it's concise yet detailed, honest yet bubbling over with love for the subject. Yum.
(It has a slightly misleading title in that the first half is really about I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and related projects, but I think that's a feature, not a bug; at last, a proper critical appraisal of Hello Cheeky...)