If I Don't write it, nobody else will

Eric Sykes’s comedy has always sported an essential core of warm humanity. This, along with his genuine creative genius, continues to prove an unforgettably winning combination. In his much anticipated autobiography, Eric Sykes reveals his extraordinary life working alongside a generation of legendary comedians and entertainers, despite being dogged by deafness and eventually virtual blindness.

If I Don't Write It, Nobody Else Will

Sykes, Eric

Humor & Entertainment

HarperCollins, UK

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harper-perennial

The long awaited story of one of Britain's greatest comic legends.  'Some people walk on stage and the audience warms to them. You can't explain it, and you shouldn't try. It's an arrogant assumption to say you 'decide' to become a comedian. The audience decides for you' Eric Sykes, December 2001  From his early days writing scripts for Bill Fraser and Frankie Howerd through decades of British radio and television comedy -- Educating Archie, Sykes And A!, Curry and Chips, The Plank -- to his present day ventures into film and theatre, starring in The Others with Nicole Kidman and appearing in Peter Hall's recent production of As You Like It, Eric Sykes has carved himself an enduring place as one of Britain's greatest writers and performers.  In his much anticipated autobiography, Sykes reveals his extraordinary life working alongside a generation of legendary comedians and entertainers, despite being dogged by deafness and eventually virtual blindness. His hearing problems began in the early days of his career in the 1950s, around the time he wrote, directed and performed in the spoof pantomime Pantomania for the BBC. Undeterred however, Sykes learned to lip-read, going on to write and appear in a number of BBC productions including Opening Night and Val Parnell's Saturday Spectacular the first of two shows he made with Peter Sellers, a great life long friend. From 1959 until her death in 1980, Syke's starred with Hattie Jacques in one of Britain's best loved sitcoms Sykes and A!. Throughout the two decade run of this show he continued to work alongside a host of stars including Charlie Drake, Tommy Cooper, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Johnny Speight, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.  Curry and Chips was short-lived due to the deluge of complaints about the series content. But Eric Sykes was the only one who refused to use bad-language; his comedy has always sported an essential core of warm humanity and this, along with his genuine creative genius continues to prove an unforgettably winning combination.

If I Don't Write It Nobody Else Will

Harper Uk

Great Crime of Grapplewick

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Gage Distribution Co

The Goon Show: And There's More Where That Came From! (BBC Radio Collection, Vol. 5)

Radio

BBC Audiobooks

Through a winning combination of personal warmth, superbly observed written and performed comedy and a deeply intimate understanding of what a viewing audience wants, Eric Sykes has deservedly carved himself an enduring place as one of only a small handful of genuine creative geniuses working in the field of British comedy. In Eric Sykes' Comedy Heroes, this great man has brought together all his favourite comics under one roof to present his very own comedy Hall of Fame. Sykes pays tribute to more than twenty greats, everyone from Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan to Les Dawson, Hattie Jacques, Julie Walters and Victoria Wood - men and women who have stimulated his lifelong love - affair with laughter.

Eric Sykes' Comedy Heroes

Virgin Books

Four episodes of the groundbreaking BBC radio comedy starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, and Harry Secombe. Goon but not forgotten! Here is a chance to enjoy more surreal clowning from one of the greatest comedy teams on radio. During the course of these four digitally-remastered episodes, London is besieged by birds, and Winston Seagoon battles the Big Brother Corporation. The episodes included are: The Starlings—Series 4 Special (31 August 1954), The Missing Scroll—Series 5, Episode 19 (1 February 1955), Nineteen Eighty-Five—Series 5, Episode 20 (8 February 1955), and The Man Who Won the War (AKA Seagoon MCC)—Series 6, Episode 1 (20 September 1955). Please note: Nineteen Eighty-Five is a remake of the same titled episode from 4 January 1955, previously available on The Goon Show Volume 5. 2 CDs, 118 minutes

The Goon Show: Volume 31: Four episodes of the classic BBC Radio comedy

MILLIGAN, SPIKE

Humor

BBC Books

Four more hilarious episodes of the groundbreaking BBC radio comedy starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. Forog - Series 5, Episode 13 (21 December 1954) The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street (aka The Terrible Blasting of Moreton's Bank) - Series 5, Episode 23 (1 March 1955) The Tale of Men's Shirts - Series 10, Episode 2 (31 December 1959)The Scarlet Capsule - Series 9, Episode 14 (2 February 1959) Goon but not forgotten! Here is a chance to enjoy more anarchic clowning from one of the greatest ever radio comedy teams. The Goon Show ran on the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, and influenced an entire generation of subsequent comedians. Its legacy has lasted over sixty years, with classic episodes continuing to divert and delight audiences worldwide. In these four digitally-remastered episodes, written by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes, Ned tracks down the terrorists responsible for producing the artificial foreign fog that is blanketing London; Inspector Seagoon investigates a bank robbery; Neddie Seagoon stars in a tale of spies, counter-spies and exploding shirt-tails and Professor Ned Quatermass unravels a mystery around an unexplained Thing discovered deep below London. Duration: 1 hour 55 mins approx.

The Goon Show: Volume 32: Four Episodes of the Classic BBC Radio Comedy

BBC AUDIO *

The universe is at risk and a message is sent to earth - "UFO's are coming Wednesday". Is this a hoax, and if so who is the mysterious visitor to Norman Waterhouse's barber shop in Grapplewick, Lancashire?

UFOs Are Coming Wednesday

Sparks and Miller, two reluctant Desert Rats, were trying desperately to have a quiet war, but despite all of their efforts, they somehow manage to become front-page heroes. No matter what they do they come up smelling of roses.

Smelling of Roses

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