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>League of Gentlemen tie-in book - Beautifully put together. You can tell they've always been fans of good comedy tie-in books, and have gone all out to make this one desirable.
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I'm not a big LoG fan by any means, but I've seen this too in the shops, and you're right, the attention to detail is impressive.

>"The Best Of Les Dawson And John Cleese" - Certainly a title that catches your eye. A bunch of sketches starring exactly who it says it does. There's no original transmission date given on the box, but if it's been newly copyrighted this year, that makes it... 1965? 1970? Any copyright lawyers here this morning? This might be great, might be shite. No way of knowing till you open the box. Schr�dinger's video.

Not sure, but this is probably the stuff from Dawson's 1974 series of Sez Les for Yorkshire Television. Cleese had left Python, and apparently he and Dawson were big fans of each other, so he appeared in quite a few sketches, mainly playing establishment-type characters. I like both of them too, so...who knows? (Does someone else want to fork out for it first, though?)

Dawson went away to Paris when he was young, to make his name as a novelist. It didn't work out so he went into stand-up.

He did write at least 1 thriller later on. Anyone read it? I saw it in a library once but, er, couldn't be bothered.

I now very few comics who intended to go into stand-up... it's not much of a "when i grow up I want to be..." job really. Most of us seem to have gotten side-tracked into it while working on something else; acting, writing, music, whatever. Surprising number of ex-teachers, although teaching is actually a fairly similar process (standing in a room full of people who don;t necessarily want to listen, trying to win them over).

Hey it's one of my "I want to be when I grow up..." jobs!
But, there's a whole heap of other stuff I want to do as well.
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(con artist)