Feldman was born on 8 July 1934 in Canning Town, East London, the son of Cecilia (née Crook) and Myer Feldman, a gown manufacturer, [7] who was a Jewish immigrant from Kyiv, Ukraine. It was a face that David Frost, one of his bosses, characterised as "too grotesque" for television -- see what Feldman has to say about Frost, and Francis Bacon, and John Lennon. An exception was when during a promotional tour for The Last Remake of Beau Geste, he denounced the campaign led by Anita Bryant against homosexuality. Marty Feldman's autobiography eYE Marty offers insight into this underrated brilliant comic, from his Dickensian childhood to finding his way into the arts. The book is exactly as Feldman wrote it, with even the photos inserted where Feldman had noted they should go.

And perhaps another biographer could have latched on to a detail like that and written a much better work – by acknowledging the brilliant moments and the great work, but zeroing in on how it all went wrong.

Written over a period of a few years and completed not long before his death, Feldman’s story tells of his unhappy childhood struggles, homeless years as he struggled to make it as a performer in post-war Britain, and eventual move to America and the bountiful opportunities available to him in the New World. Marty was co-author the famous Monty Python 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch and was also script editor on The Frost Report with future members of Monty Python.

Last Remake of Beau Geste would be considered one of the funniest films of all time if anyone either A) Read the book, or more importantly B) Realized you didn’t have to. His unique and mischievous physiognomy, brought about by a thyroid condition, is highlighted throughout and it is this to which he ascribes his skewed view of life: "I have an eyE that looks the opposite way from the other but why should we not have an eyE that can see all around us?Often a chapter will begin discussing something, then jump forward 2 years, and back again without any strong sense of time. In conclusione mi sentirei di consigliare questo libro solo ai veri appassionati del personaggio Marty Feldman, mentre invece un normale lettore può trovare nella biografia citata su wikipedia già un buon livello di informazione. Unflaggingly self-deprecating, yet remaining resolutely positive, Feldman tells his story with humour and candour, neither wallowing over unhappy periods, nor gloating about his successes.

Le cose migliorano quando si arriva al 1973 e alle riprese di Frankenstein Junior perché almeno si comincia ad avere una corrispondenza diretta tra quello che si legge e ciò che si è potuto vedere di persona. The function of my comedy is not to provide answers, but to postulate questions, impertinent questions and therefore finally, pertinent questions. A spokesman said: ‘The book is exactly as Feldman wrote it, his great friend Mark Flanagan, had it transcribed, with even the photos inserted where Feldman had noted where they should go. Towards the end of the book he gets more reflective about politics, religion and the absurdities of life. During the course of his career, Feldman recorded two albums, Marty (1968) and I Feel a Song Going Off (1969), re-released in 1971 as The Crazy World of Marty Feldman.

Flanagan told the Sunday Times: ‘It’s Marty’s story from his impoverished childhood in East London in the 1930s to all the famous people he knew, like David Frost, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle. Per questo motivo, oltre che per la mia smodata passione per quel film, quando in libreria ho incrociato la sua biografia ho colto al volo l'occasione, sperando di imparare qualcosa in più di quell'uomo tanto riconoscibile. One of the most poignant lines in the book is in a letter from Spike Milligan to Lauretta shortly after Feldman's premature death: "If life is like a game of cards, somebody is cheating.

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They wrote a few episodes of The Army Game and the bulk of Bootsie and Snudge, both comedies for ITV, and the BBC radio show Round the Horne, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams.