by Stephen Fry
Massey, Anna, 115-16
Massy, Baron de, 311
Mather, Victoria, 332-3
Matthew, Brian, 197
Maugham, Somerset: Home and Beauty, 93
May, Elaine, 240
Mayall, Rik: and Simon Gray, 44-5, 49; and new comedy, 209, 239; collaborates with Elton on The Young Ones, 210, 246; comic qualities, 213-14, 246, 387; and Ade Edmondson, 365; in Blackadder, 385-7
Mayer, Lise, 210, 214, 246
Mayhew-Archer, Paul, 331-2
Me and My Girl (stage musical): revival, 260-9, 271, 300, 325, 338, 340, 342, 374; opening in Leicester, 346, 348-9; transfers to West End, 353, 357-9; staged in Australia, 390-1; produced in New York, 409-12, 415-16, 419-22; in Los Angeles, 419; international success, 424; nominated for Tony awards, 424
Meades, Jonathan, 319-20, 324
Melbourne Arts Centre, 391
Memoirs of a Fox (revue), 176, 181
Meyer, Russ, 6
Middleditch, Penny (SF's cousin), 117
Middleton, Thomas and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl, 152-3, 155
Miller, Jonathan, 71, 121
Milligan, Spike, 215
Mitchell, Bill, 291
Mitchell, David, 121
Mitchell, Warren, 402
Moab is My Washpot (SF; memoir), 1-2, 17
Moir, Jim, 296-7, 409
Molina, Alfred, 211
Montagu, Felicity, 332
Monty Python (TV series), 209, 239
Mooney, Paul, 44, 49
Moore, Dudley, 71, 129
Moore, G.E., 69, 335
Moore, Oscar, 152
Morecambe, Eric, 54, 207, 209; death, 346
Morrison, Steve, 229, 240-1
Morrissey (i.e. Steven Patrick Morrissey), 324
Mulville, Jimmy, 403-4
Nation, Terry, 218
Neatnews (radio programme), 328-9
Nederlander, James, 411-14, 420
Neil, Mr (grocer), 10-11
Nelson, Admral Horatio, 1st Viscount, 26
Neumann, Martin (SF's grandfather), 9-10, 28
New Statesman, The (play), 254
New York, 409-16, 420-2
New York Times, 419, 423
Newell, Mike, 353
Newman, Rob, 121
Newsbeat (radio programme), 328
Newton, Sir Isaac, 70
Nichols, Mike, 240
Nightcap (Cambridge Footlights revue), 127-9
Noel Gay Artists (agency), 175, 235-6, 261-2, 291
Noel Gay Music (agency), 359
Norfolk College of Arts and Technology (NORCAT), King's Lynn, 26, 92
Norton, Graham, 332
Not the Nine O'Clock News (TV programme), 180-1, 193, 207, 209, 239, 383
Nunn, Trevor, 108, 135
Ockrent, Mike: directs Me and My Girl revival, 266-7, 269-70, 338, 340, 349; background, 269; and Stephen Sondheim's exploitation of SF's fax machine, 300-1; and Me and My Girl in Australia, 391; and Terry Allen Kramer, 414; in New York with Me and My Girl, 422-3
Oldman, Gary, 150
Olivier, Sir Laurence (later Baron), 93-4, 336, 351-2
Only Fools and Horses (TV programme), 215
Orme, Stuart, 228
Ornstein, Dita (SF's great-aunt), 422
Orton, Joe: Loot, 346
Oulton, Caroline, 141-3, 152, 388
Oxford, 70-1, 129; see also Playhouse Theatre
Oxford and Cambridge Club, London, 377-8
Oxford Theatre Group, 197
Palin, Michael, 71, 129, 348
Palmer, James, 171
Paltrow, Gwyneth, 324
Parker, Alan, 234
Parkinson, Cecil, Baron, 101
Parkinson, Sir Michael, 138
Pascal, Blaise, 226
Paston School, North Walsham, Norfolk, 26
Paxman, Jeremy, 139
Perrier Award (Edinburgh Festival), 20, 199, 202, 210
Perry Mason (US TV series), 416-17
Philips (schoolboy), 40-2
Pinter, Harold: friendship with Simon Gray, 46-7; watches cricket, 52; social awkwardness, 53; smoking, 57; David Aukin produces, 268
Playhouse Theatre, Oxford, 195
Plowman, Jon, 210-11, 213
Plunkett, Maryann, 416, 418, 424
Poliakoff, Stephen: City Sugar, 134
Pols, Bob, 92
Pope-Hennessy, James, 49
Popplewell, Oliver, 32
Posner, Geoff, 396
Potter, Dennis, 268; The Singing Detective, 353
Powell, Enoch, 102
Praed, Michael, 258
Prince, Hal, 300
Prince, Peter, 353
Pringle, Derek, 146
Private Function, A (film), 348
Producers, The (Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan; play and stage musical), 423
Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, 27, 30, 360
Puttnam, Sir David (later Baron), 147-8, 234, 298
QI (TV programme): publicity, 55; taping, 63
Queen's Head (bar), Chelsea, 221
Queen's Theatre, London, 340, 344, 346
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, 318
Quinton, Anthony, Baron, 335
Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged, 303-4
Rashbrook, Stephen, 336
Rattigan, Sir Terence, 337
Ravens, Jan, 144, 191
Reagan, Ronald, 188, 201
Redgrave, Sir Michael, 95, 108, 183
Redmond, Siobhan, 211, 239, 241
Reeves, Vic, 296
Regent Square, Bloomsbury, 340
Reitel, Enn, 291, 415
Rice, Matthew, 337-8, 357
Rice, Peter, 337
Rich, Frank, 419, 422-3
Richard, Sir Cliff, 324
Richardson, Charles, 394
Richardson, Christopher, 130, 196
Richardson, Miranda, 382, 384
Richardson, Peter, 214
Ridley, Nicholas, Bishop of London, 70
Rising Damp (TV sitcom), 207
Roberts, Michael, 308, 310
Robinson, Robert, 139
Robinson, Tony, 382, 384
Rolfe, Frederick see Corvo, Baron
Rose, Arthur, 268
Rosen, Ralph, 423
Rosengard, Peter, 208
Ross, Jonathan, 6
Ross, Sandy, 210-11, 213, 229, 241
Rossiter, Leonard, 346
Rumney, Peter, 122, 126
Russell, Bertrand, 69, 185, 335
Rylands, George ('Dadie'), 95
Sachs, Andrew, 332
Sahlins, Bernie, 240-1
Sahlins, Marshall, 240
St Mark's Rise, Dalston, 365
Sands, Bobby, 201
Sarchet, Tony, 331
Sassoon, Siegfried, 176
Sastry, Sunetra (Mrs Rowan Atkinson), 387-8
Saturday Live (TV programme), 391, 394-7, 402, 409
Saturday Night Live (TV programme), 240
Saunders, Jennifer, 209, 214, 296, 364
Savident, John, 297
Sax, Geoffrey, 254
Sayle, Alexei, 205-7, 209, 239
Sayle, Linda, 206
Scargill, Arthur, 201
Schlesinger, John, 401
Schlesinger, Paul, 189
Scofield, Paul, 164
Scotsman, The (newspaper), 127, 155-6
Scott, Ridley, 234
Scott, Tony, 234
Scott's Porage Oats, 19
Sessions, John, 44, 46, 49, 252
Sewell, Brian, 319, 332
sex: and smoking, 24-5
Shakespeare, William, 85-6, 94; All's Well That Ends Well, 149; Love's Labour's Lost, 188-9, 282; Macbeth, 135-6; The Tempest, 113-16, 136, 160
Shand, Neil, 333
Shaw, George Bernard, 57
Shearer, Paul: in Alfresco, 20; in Footlights revue, 172, 190, 192; Armitage signs up, 194, 262; and Elton's The Young Ones, 210; and televising of The Cellar Tapes, 214; leaves There's Nothing to Worry About, 229; in The Crystal Cube, 297
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Shepherd, Peter, 306
Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 19
Sherriff, R.C., 60
Sherrin, Ned, 329-30, 333-4
Short Circuit (film), 88
Short, Nigel, 81
Simpkin, Paul, 176
Sinclair, John Gordon, 44, 48-9
Skeat, W.W., 89
Slattery, Tony, 155, 190, 213-14, 259, 262, 332
Smith, Arthur, 332
Smith, Dame Maggie, 348
Smith, Mel, 180, 209, 247, 296
Smith, Sir Paul, 293
smoking: SF's addiction to, 23-30, 33-4, 37-40, 50, 56-8; and sex, 24-5; Simon Gray's addiction to, 44-5, 50, 57; SF gives up, 53-6, 58-9, 62-3, 424
Snow, Greg, 176
Softley, Ian, 113-15, 136
Sondheim, Stephen, 300-5
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, 121-2, 124, 126-7
Southgate Road, London, 352, 354, 363
Speak, Peter, 82-3
Spearing, A.C., 78
Speight, Johnny, 402
Spenser, Edmund, 106
Spitting Image (TV programme), 383, 394
Stamp, Gavin, 319
Stebbing Park, Essex, 258, 296
Stevenson, Pamela, 391
Stewart, Patrick, 93
Stiller, Jerry, 61
Sting (born Gordon Sumner), 324
Stoker, Bram: Dracula, 190, 205
Stone, Adam, 176
Stoppard, Sir Tom, 52-3, 57, 64; Travesties, 97, 152
Stormbreaker (film), 255
Stouts Hill (school), 11, 13
Strachey, Lytton, 69
Sturridge, Mary-Lou, 406
Suchet, David, 191
sugar beet, 10
Sugar Puffs (cereal), 6-8, 10-11, 19
Sullivan, John, 215
sweets and chocolate, 12-17, 19-20
Swinnerton-Dyer, Sir Peter, 157
Swinton, Tilda, 181-2, 259
Sykes, Eric, 215
Symons, Nick, 342, 353, 363, 365
Tafler, Jonathan, 127, 135-6
Tandy, Jessica, 417
Tatler (magazine), 299, 306, 308-10, 318-20, 324
Taylor, Barry, 114, 136, 149-52
Temple, John G., 241-2
Temple, Julian, 250
Tennant, David, 90
Terrence Higgins Trust, 393
That Was The Week That Was (TV programme), 329
Thatcher, Carol, 332-3
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness, 83, 201, 208, 294-5, 328, 333, 380
There's Nothing to Worry About (TV sketch show), 20, 228-9, 238, 280, 373
This Is David Harper (earlier This Is David Lander; TV programme), 332, 356, 404
Thompson, Emma: at Cambridge, 20, 98-101, 128, 143-4, 149, 152, 166, 172, 190, 192; sees Latin in Edinburgh, 156; Armitage signs up, 175, 262; in Memoirs of a Fox revue, 181; background, 208; writes for Granada show, 210; natural gifts, 213; and televising of The Cellar Tapes, 214; performs in Ben Elton sketches, 228, 239; visits Richard Armitage, 258; in The Crystal Cube (TV programme), 297; moderates work commitments, 321; plays in Me and My Girl, 343, 348
Thompson, Eric, 98
Thornton, Frank, 338, 348
Time Out (magazine), 208, 299
Tinguely, Jean, 152
Toksvig, Sandi, 144
Tolkien, J.R.R., 92
Tolkin, Michael and Stephen, 250-2
Trueman, Brian, 138
Trueman, Fred, 54
Truss, Lynn, 299
Tune, Tommy, 420
Twisk, Russell, 299, 319
Two Ronnies (Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett), 209
United Artists (film corporation), 145
United States of America: SF visits, 59-60, 409-19; SF makes TV travel series on, 63
University Challenge (TV show), 137; parodied, 246-7
Uppingham School, 18-19, 33, 91, 130, 196
Ustinov, Sir Peter, 270
Valentine, Jeremy, 32
Varney, Reg, 336
Wade, Joanna, 154
Wagner, Richard, 82; Ring Cycle, 165
Walker, Mike, 349
Walter, Harriet, 353
Ward, Don, 208
Waugh, Evelyn, 31, 129
Webb, Robert, 121
Webber, Andrew Lloyd, Baron, 160, 258
Webber Douglas Academy, 193
Weiland, Paul, 234-7
Welland, Colin, 145, 352
Welles, Orson, 238
Whalley, Joanne, 353
Whim (burger bar), Cambridge, 177-8
Whitbread (brewers), 234-8
Whitehouse, Paul, 366, 394, 402
Who Dares Wins (TV programme), 403-4
Who Do You Think You Are? (TV programme), 9
Wilde, Oscar: SF imitates, 27; smoking, 56-7; as Oxford man, 71, 129; SF plays in Have You Seen the Yellow Book?, 144; The Picture of Dorian Gray, 56
Williams, Charles: Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (verse play), 92
Wilmot, Gary, 415
Wilson, Dennis Main, 215-17, 219
Wilson, Harold, Baron, 54
Wilson, Jack, 171
Wilson, Ross, 51
Wise, Ernie, 207, 209
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 69
Wodehouse, P.G., 47, 57
Wogan, Sir Terry, 334
Woman's Hour (stage show), 143-4
Wood, John, 93
Woolf, Virginia, 71
Wordsworth, William, 5, 110
Wyke, Rob, 113, 160
Yarwood, Mike, 209
Yeats, W.B.: translation of Oedipus Rex, 127
Yes, Minister (TV programme), 336, 345
Young Ones, The (TV comedy series), 210, 214, 245-7, 364, 383-4
Young Winston (film), 354
Zanzibar club, London, 402-6
Zyban (drug; amfebutamone), 58-3
Table of Contents
Introduction
C is for C12H22O11 for Cereal, for Candy, for Caries, for Cavities, for Carbohydrates, for Calories
C is for Cigarettes for Convict, for Cundall, for Corporal Punishment, for Common Pursuit, for Cessa
1. College to Colleague
Cambridge
College and Class
Chess, Classics, Classical Composers, Curiosity and Cheating
Caledonia 1
Cherubs, Coming Out, Continent
Challenge 1
Corpus Christening
Chariots 1
Caledonia 2
Conveniences
Committees
Cycle
Comedy Colleague, Collaborator and Comrade
Continuity and Clubroom
Comedy Credits
Cooke
Chariots 2
Corpsing Chorus
Cellar Tapes and Celebration
Cheerio, Cambridge
Caledonia 3
2. Comedy
Carry on Capering
Clash of Cultures
Chelsea, Coleherne Clones and Conscience
Colonel and Coltrane
Computer 1
Commercial
Create!
Car
Challenge 2
Cinema
Church and Chekhov
Cockney Capers
Chichester 1
Crises of Confidence
Celebrity
Commercials, Covent Garden, Compact Discs, Cappuccinos and Croissants
Crystal Cube
Columnist
Cryptic in Connecticut
Contortionist
Critics and Couriers
Confirmed Celibate
Characters and the Corporation
Colonel and Mrs Chichester
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