Tommy Cooper : Just Like That!

by Tommy Cooper

In the words of Eric Morcambe, 'Tommy Cooper was absolutely fantastic' and, in those of Eric Sykes, 'there is yet to emerge a comedian better.' Just Like That! began life when Cooper was writing an account of his jokes and tricks and it tells the story of his journey to stardom in his own inimitable style. Here is a fitting souvenir of the comedian's comedian in his own words - a memento of the comic genius at his best.

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 2004

Reviews

[Benedict Reid · Rating 1 out of 5]

There's a reason this short book took my over 2 years to trudge my way through. Tommy Cooper was a very funny man, and his verbal pun-laced comedy is fun to listen to in short bursts. But to see strings of puns written down without any sort of a plot to connect them together gets painful quickly. It found I could only do a few pages at a time.
And Tommy himself obviously had some difficulty with the book, 50 pages from the end he says that the book has finished and they start to have every second page blank except for a large question or exclamation mark. He continues with his pun runs, now about his publisher wanting him to deliver the manuscript. Then there are 2 appendices which he says are specifically there because he needed to give his publisher more words (one appendix is just a list of odd words, the second appendix has some quite funny jokes in it).
All and all, an historical oddity rather than a book worth reading

[Stephanie Hutabarat · Rating 3 out of 5]

I never know or heard about this man, that is why I want to know his story by reading this book. I dont think he's funny,though..well that is my opinion. But this book is not only about his job as comedian but all about his life. It's a cliche, a guy who didnt make effort to make other laughed but in the other side he is lonely. He have everything: money, wife, son, wealthy, famous. But his loneliness maybe because he didnt have the women that he loved. 3 stars for this