Geoffrey The Tube Train And The Fat Comedian

by Alexei Sayle, Oscar Zárate

Fast, funny and full of wiggly lines - that's Geoffrey the Tube Train and the Fat Comedian. Things start to go "ooh- arggh" in the violent summer night as the Fat Comedian tries to find a new career and instead meets a talking tube train. Crazy, ou quoi?

Genres: Comics, Humor, Fiction

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Alexei Sayle is an English stand-up comedian, actor, author and former recording artist, and was a central figure in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s.
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Reviews

[Mike Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked this up for free in a box left on someone's front door step in Plymouth. (It was marked 'help yourself - free', I'm not a book thief.

It's funny in parts and enjoyable enough, but not the best format for Alexei Sayle's comedy.

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just lots of fun to read and something a bit different.

[Adrian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Being as ow I'm just an umble stand up comedian I ain't much good wif the written word like. Not like them writin' toffs, yer Doris Lessings or A.N. Wilsons. Nevertheless I want to write about the summer when I was all washed up on the shores of light entertainment, If I could just locate them right words, l knows, I could make it come real alive on the page..... So, here goes......

Oddly we found this in the children's section of a charity shop and it is by far not a children's book given it is packed full of swearing, murdering, and general ranting.

Combining Alexei Sayle's eclectic humour, surrealism, and left wing tendencies, this is part murder mystery, part autobiographical, and altogether bizarre.

Alexei finds himself down on his luck and decides to write a children's book about Geoffrey The Tube Train. Soon the lines between real and the imaginary start to blur and the story descends into a sort of madness.

I think you have to be a fan of Alexei Sayle to enjoy this. Luckily I am and found myself chuckling along. 4 stars.

[Andrew Ives · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite a clever plot, with peculiar garish artwork, laced with sweary dialogue and Marxist wisdom. It certainly wasn't boring, made for a fairly substantial read and was even mildly mysterious and suspenseful, yet rather depressing, yucky and somewhat lacking in hilarity. A little better than Alexei's other books I've read. 3.25/5

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

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