Louis Barfe is expert on all aspects of the entertainment industry. He is the author of Where Have All The Good Times Gone? The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry (2004), Turned Out Nice Again: The Story of British Light Entertainment (2008) and The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson (2012).His new book is Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story.
At the Guardian he tagged a (UK-centric) top ten list of books about comedy. One of the classic titles on the list:
Read about the other entries on the list.The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book by Eric Idle (1976)
Rutland Weekend Television, the Monty Python spin-off that inspired this book, remains unrepeated and unreleased on DVD. I found this before I’d seen even a frame of the series. It’s a masterpiece, not least the real cover wraparound hiding the fake cover for the Vatican Sex Manual and the libellous Who’s Who in Rutland, printed on brown parcel paper.
--Marshal Zeringue
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