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GRAHAM MCCANN
Frankie Howerd
Stand-Up Comic
Fourth Estate
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This edition published by Harper Perennial 2005
First published by Fourth Estate 2004
Copyright © Graham McCann 2004
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For Mic,
who believed I could write it, and
Vera and Silvana, who believed I could complete it.
I donât go for this business of the broken-hearted clown.
Because I think a broken-hearted clown would be a damn sight more broken-hearted if he wasnât a clown.
FRANKIE HOWERD
Contents
6 The One-Man Situational Comedy
INTERMISSION: THE YEARS OF DARKNESS