
Anything for a Laugh
Memoirs
Eric Nicol(Author)
Harbour Publishing
Will be published approx. on 12. February 1998
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-55017-187-7 (ISBN)
Description
"What are memories?" writes Eric Nicol in this volume. "Laundered biography?" In this case, memoirs are the rollicking, funny life and times of Eric Nicol.
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Language
English
Place of publication
British Columbia
Canada
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
50 b/w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55017-187-7 (9781550171877)
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Person
Eric Nicol (1919-2011) was one of Canada's most beloved humourists. He was born December 28, 1919 in Kingston, Ontario, the son of William Nicol and Amelia Mannock Nicol. His family moved to Vancouver, BC in 1921, and - with the exception of a few years in Nelson, BC - Nicol spent the rest of his childhood there. He received his B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1941 and then completed three years service (RCAF) during World War II. After the war, Nicol returned to UBC for his M.A. in French Studies ('48) and spent one year in doctoral studies at Sorbonne. He then moved to London, England to write radio comedy series for Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly of the BBC from 1950-51. Nicol had started to write occasional columns for the Vancouver News Herald and the Vancouver Province during the war, while studying in Paris. He returned to Vancouver in 1951 to become a regular columnist with the Province, eventually producing some six thousand newspaper columns, several stage plays, more scripts for radio and television and more than thirty books - three of them winners of the Stephen Leacock Award for humour. He was the first recipient of the BC Gas Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to the literary arts in 1995.
Content
Introduction: A Disclaimer
Derivation
What I Owe Kaiser Bill
The Lullaby of Kingsway
Our Ship Comes in a Scow
The Perils of Puberty
Dirtied by the Thirties
From Beast of Burden to Baccalaureate
The Belated First Date
The Taking of Toronto
Ottawa, Graveyard of Humorists
Back to Ivy-Covered Gall
La Vie de Bohunk
Adieu, Sorbonne
I Always Shop at Harrods
Readmitted to the Printed Ward
Move Over, Miguel de Cervantes
Bombing on Broadway
Did I Miss Something?
A Serving of Hard Cheese
In the Wake of Willy Loman
Maybe a Life Too Literal
Derivation
What I Owe Kaiser Bill
The Lullaby of Kingsway
Our Ship Comes in a Scow
The Perils of Puberty
Dirtied by the Thirties
From Beast of Burden to Baccalaureate
The Belated First Date
The Taking of Toronto
Ottawa, Graveyard of Humorists
Back to Ivy-Covered Gall
La Vie de Bohunk
Adieu, Sorbonne
I Always Shop at Harrods
Readmitted to the Printed Ward
Move Over, Miguel de Cervantes
Bombing on Broadway
Did I Miss Something?
A Serving of Hard Cheese
In the Wake of Willy Loman
Maybe a Life Too Literal