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Thatcher stole my trousers /

by Sayle, Alexei.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2016Description: 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781408864531 (hbk.) :; 1408864533 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 920 SAYSubject(s): Sayle, Alexei | Comedians -- Great Britain -- Biography | Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography | Biography | BiographySummary: In 1971 comedians on the working men's club circuit imagined that they would be free to go on telling their tired, racist, misogynistic gags forever, but a 19-year-old Marxist art student with a bizarre concern for the health of British manufacturing was slowly coming to meet them. Through the next decade Alexei Sayle would be a student at Chelsea Art School, a clerk in a DHSS office, one of London's bottom ten freelance illustrators, a school dinner lady and a college lecturer, before he became the original MC of the Comedy Store. 'Thatcher Stole My Trousers' is the story of Alexei's rise to fame.
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In 1971 comedians on the working men's club circuit imagined that they would be free to go on telling their tired, racist, misogynistic gags forever, but a 19-year-old Marxist art student with a bizarre concern for the health of British manufacturing was slowly coming to meet them. Through the next decade Alexei Sayle would be a student at Chelsea Art School, a clerk in a DHSS office, one of London's bottom ten freelance illustrators, a school dinner lady and a college lecturer, before he became the original MC of the Comedy Store. 'Thatcher Stole My Trousers' is the story of Alexei's rise to fame.

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