A Life of Its Own
Jonathan Coe, 24 February 1994
The Kenneth Williams Diaries
edited by Russell Davies.
HarperCollins, 827 pp., £20, June 1993,0 00 255023 7 Show More
edited by Russell Davies.
HarperCollins, 827 pp., £20, June 1993,
“... of the covert bond which unites them, at least in retrospect, as key figures in British post-war comedy. Both were gay; both were in the closet; and both, therefore, were fully tapped into that vein of sexual subterfuge and masquerade which has always been central to the British sense of humour. Both idolised Sid Field, and learned some of the basic ... ”