Before I became a mother I was able to spend large portions of my weekend watching my various comedy box sets, but no - I'm not bitter, just a little disappointed, hey ho. However, these days I have my comedy books to look through and that's always enjoyable, especially when combined with searching stuff on the interweb. If you were to ask me just how many books about comedy combined with various comedians' autobiographies I wouldn't be able to answer you, but let me tell you, it's a lot - here are two to illustrate my point:
Unsurprisingly I also own quite a few script books -
Father Ted, Blackadder, Little Britain, Alan Partridge and
The League of Gentlemen to name but a few. The Father Ted one is my favourite, especially as it give the context and background to all of the episodes including the inspiration for such classics as the
Entertaining Father Stone episode - based upon an unwelcome visitor who used to turn up every year at Arthur Matthews' parents' house. I cannot believe that my personal highlight New Jack City is so detested by Linehan and Matthews, but it takes all sorts I suppose.
Talking of Father Ted - I've just re-read my last post and it's a tiny bit vitriolic to be honest and reminded me of the Christmassy Ted episode where he wins the coveted Golden Cleric award and proclaims a very long revenge tirade aimed at all of the ecclesiastical people who have annoyed him over the years. Somebody at work asked me why I bought such script books and that they weren't surprised that I did. Hmm.
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