Find reviews of books for men at Books for Dudes, Books for Dudes, the online reader's advisory column for men from Library Journal. The second series in 1969 was retitled It's Marty (this title being retained for the DVD release of the series). The other three participants (future Monty Python members Graham Chapman and John Cleese; and future star of The Goodies Tim Brooke-Taylor) needed a fourth cast member, and had Feldman in mind. Other reviewers said this biography fawned over Feldman; that is not the impression I got because it did thoroughly cover his many addictions and acts of misbehavior which undoubtedly killed him. When I was a kid, I used to think Monty Python, The Goon Show, Marty Feldman and even the Benny Hill Show was funny.

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.

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 non parlare delle fughe verso Parigi, all’epoca città simbolo per artisti ed intellettuali, alla ricerca di qualcosa che non riusciva a trovare tra recitazione e musica jazz. E ha deciso di far vedere al lettore quanto è stato bravo nel suo compitino, come qualunque ragazzino che ha studiato a memoria.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. it is difficult not to read it without a degree of sadness now that Marty Feldman is no longer with us.