The King's Jester

ISBN: 9781848854307 出版年：2010 页码：231 Barry Anthony Bloomsbury Publishing

Who was Dan Leno? In 1901 everyone in Britawas. They had seen hmuslistened to his jokes on the new gramophone and watched his funny antics earliest moving pictures. EvVII was a fan and the popular press dubbed Dan LeJester'. But his path to fame was a hard one: he journeyed from being a child performer in the London and Liverpool slums to a chaotic career in hard-bitten northern variety theatres. Dan became the nation's favourite comedian, but as one of the first mass media stars he suffered from this continual exposure anearly age of forty three. Drawing on many previously unused sources, this is first, authoritative, biography of Dan Leno. Only Charlie Chaplin, often compared to Dan in style and appearance, was to occupy a similar position in the hearts of the British public. In telling the full story of Dan's life and career on the stage and screen, Barry Anthony brings to life the everyday life of Victorian Britain, as well as Dan's unique brand of humour and its resonance with later comedians such as Spike Milligan and the Monty Python team.