Harry Thompson - Classic or Utterly Classic?

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I thought his biography of Peter Cook was fantastically well written, and then I found out he was the main man behind Monkey Dust (which is IMHO the funniest British comedy since Blackadder), as well as producing and co-writing Have I Got News For You, Harry Enfield & Chums and Ali G.

His latest book and first work of fiction, This Thing of Darkness, has been nominated for the 2005 Booker Prize.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/article305765.ece

I'm saying utterly classic.

Get well soon Harry!

― Chris K, Thursday, 6 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

His Herge biography is FANTASTIC. Sadly, I think it's out of print.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

RIP:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4417656.stm

Only 45 as well, damn shame.

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

This is extremely sad news. I was going to interview him about his Peter Cook biography in the wake of the tenth anniversary of Cook's death earlier this year but chickened out when I discovered he was the man behind Monkey Dust et al - starstruck - pretty pathetic and now I'll never have the chance.

RIP Harry - you'll be sorely missed.

― Chris K, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Sad. I hope HIGNFY marks this in a decent way.
I felt the same when Humphrey Carpenter died.

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Great Tintin book...

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

the peter cook biog is fantastically well written and researched, a really inspiring book.

― foxy boxer (stevie), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

not that familiar with his comedy producing (no-one mentions the 11 O'Clock Show!) but the Herge biog is indeed splendid (my copy: loaned and lost ten yrs ago) and the Cook bio v v good indeed (qualified by too much emph. on 'he was too depressed/jealous without Dud to ever focus again' type theorising-as-fact etc - but yes as Stevie says, excellent research and so readable).

If that novel's been published in .au I'll be looking for it tomorrow.

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

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