The fact that it is factual belies the wonderful narrative of Thompson’s cricketing life and, at times, it would have been more enjoyable if the tales it tells were fictional. However it makes us understand that if there is anything we want to do in life, we should just go ahead and do it. Publisher's cloth, very good in unclipped dust wrapper; a hilarious and deeply perceptive book about the English and their preoccupations with the sport. Defending the humour in the show, he publicly announced that "You'll never see anything PC or right-on in my shows.

Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. It excels when describing and discussing that most writable of sports, cricket; however, in describing the colourful characters and cities that Thompson encountered it is no less impressive. Harry Thompson’s hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out. The breakdown of their marriage became public in 1997 when Duff wrote an article about Thompson's affair with a 25-year-old woman (later revealed to be Victoria Coren [12]) in the Daily Mail.Treated at a London hospital, he married Whadcock on Monday 7 November 2005, before dying later that day. Now I’ve decided to read more I chose to go with this book, on the recommendation of a cricket lover friend. Moving on to produce other comedy panel shows, in 1995 he began work on They Think It's All Over, a BBC sports show. The idea that clever men with better things to do devote their spare time to playing cricket, badly, has become familiar.

Harry Thompson’s hilarious audiobook tells the story of one of those great madcap enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out. It is part sports commentary, part humour and part travelogue as you slowly warm up to the rag-tag team, then get angry with them and then cheer them on with a fair degree of exasperation. The early part of the book, before the world tour, was a little less boring, telling of the establishment of the club, a sort of Oxford/BBC/Surrey take of people who live cricket but love themselves more. For all us cricketers a great tale and probably in one way or another most our fortunate lives so far. While a village team, but since from England, the home of the game and former rulers of the colonial world, they were greeted with an intense sense of history and competition.The first chapter deserves to be anthologised alongside the funniest passages of cricket writing in the game's rich literary history, and what follows is crammed with sharp observation, comic and cruel characterisation and a great many very good jokes. Tales of a cricket tour, talk tales presumably, that should really be kept for more drunken nights of the tourists, and anyone else who was unlucky enough to get caught up in it. At its heart, it is the true story of someone who epitomised a certain sort of person that this country produced in the 19th century.

This bestselling book is a humorous chronicle of the eccentric team's mission to play a match on every continent, including an encounter with penguins in Antarctica and an unlikely victory over the Malaysian national team. Another founder was Harry Thompson, who became a television comedy producer, novelist and biographer, and eventually wrote Penguins Stopped Play, about the club's attempt to play on every continent of the world.

Having cancer is like a big hard bastard has invited me outside the pub, and when I get there he's brought two of his mates". This book has the ability to make you look very silly as you stifle a smirk on the bus so that people will not think you are mad - while reading on another joke makes you try and stifle the urge to laugh out loud causing snot to shoot from one's nose, making you look extemely silly! In 2003 The Observer listed him as one of the 50 funniest or most influential people in British comedy, citing Monkey Dust as evidence: "the most subversive show on television.