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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 817
EAN: 9780563536758
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 0563536756
Label: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Manufacturer: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: July 01, 2002
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Release Date: July 01, 2002
Studio: BBC Audiobooks Ltd

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Rating: - A delightful trip into the absurd
Another reviewer of this product complained that the interview section with Charles Richardson isn't very funny - a reaction I simply can't understand, as these twelve interviews are simply the funniest exchanges I have ever heard. Gerard Hoffnung was just 35 when he died, but he sounds like a portly (and utterly mad) sixty-year-old, and his timing and instinct for the absurd are just exquisite.

A special mention to Charles Richardson, a totally straight American reporter, assigned ... Read More

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Rating: - A neglected gem
This is great comedy. At turns surreal, observational and improvisational with superb timing and delivery.
Any fan of anything funny at all should give this a whirl.
Soon you'll also wonder why Hoffnung is not a household name along with others of his time.

Ignore the absence of hype. Get it and chuckle.

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Rating: - A mixture of the dire and the inspired
Gerard Hoffnung died in the year I was born -- 1959 -- at the absurdly young age of 34. Today he is best known for his cartoons and THAT speech to the Oxford Union, recorded a year earlier, where he tells the story of the bricklayer & the pulley and reads out some alleged replies from Tyrolean hoteliers to his wife's request for a room.

If you didn't know his age, you'd assume from his manner that he was a rather portly fifty or sixty-year-old. In his eccentric interviews with the ... Read More

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Rating: - Classic Hoffnung
This audio gem is an absolute must for Hoffnung fans. Containing the famous Charles Richardson interviews and the Oxford Union "bricklayer" speech, it will have you laughing until you cry. As a Hoffnung fan since I was at school, it was a delight to listen to him again after so many years. Immaculate.

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Rating: - English humour at its best
You need to know nothing of Hoffnungs work to appreciate his surreal and humanistic sense of humour. These tapes never fail to help lighten me up when I need a good laugh. The interviews with Charles are the highlight for me. Worth six stars!

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