Però per arrivare a questa esperienza di lettura bisogna giungere ad almeno metà del libro, davvero troppo. Feldman's peers have reported, in a number of biographies, that he was highly attractive to women in spite of his unconventional facial appearance. He was an architect of British comedy, paving the way for Monty Python, and then became a major Hollywood star, forever remembered as Igor in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Publishers Coronet say Feldman finished, and set aside Eye Marty soon before travelling to Mexico – and say he was ‘haunted by the notion’ of his own death. Hilarious, deeply charming, aphoristic, ironic, charged throughout with lust for life and filled with scenes of great vanished eras and and portraits of other performers and friends, EYE MARTY is the amazing discovery of the story of a man who was at the heart of the British comedy revolution.

Feldman attempts to tell the tale of his hungry years as a trumpet-playing vagabond until his rise to international celebrity, predicated on his googly eyes (the result of suspect thyroid medication), wiry stature, and an irrepressible bent for the bizarre.For BBC Radio they wrote Round the Horne (1964–67), their best-remembered comedy series, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams.

I don't want to give too much away but this is the story of simple soul, projected to the heights of fame by his grit, determination and gift for comedy. They wrote a few episodes of The Army Game (1960) and the bulk of Bootsie and Snudge (1960–62), both situation comedies made by Granada Television for the ITV network. His unpublished biography was discovered in his former Los Angeles home by nightclub owner Mark Flanagan, who inherited the property from Feldman’s widow, Lauretta. Il libro ripercorre in maniera molto dettagliata la storia delle serie televisive della BBC e per un lettore normale questa cosa risulta fin troppo pesante per il fatto che praticamente nessuno di quei telefilm è mai stato trasmesso sulle nostre reti.And the inconsistencies like petty crime was in Marty's blood and yet he wasn't cut out to be villain; they don't make sense to me. Marty Feldman shows his passion for writing and his storytelling is both funny and full of shocking revalations. Feldman went on to appear in films such as The Bed Sitting Room and Every Home Should Have One, the latter of which was one of the most popular comedies at the British box office in 1970. I did manage to find this nifty youtube video of The Monster Sketch from Feldman's early days, and watching it brought him a bit more into focus.