{"id":1499,"date":"2024-08-22T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:55:24","slug":"the-first-rule-of-comedy-memories-and-moments-by-jeffrey-holland-with-robert-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"The First Rule of Comedy ..! Memories and Moments by Jeffrey Holland with Robert Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coming this Spring a New Collaboration between Jeffrey Holland and Robert Ross <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fondly remembered as Spike Dixon in Hi-De-Hi, Jeffrey Holland is one of our best-loved situation comedy actors. An invaluable member of the repertory company of writer and director David Croft, his many other television credits include Are You Being Served?, Dad\u2019s Army, It Ain\u2019t Half Hot Mum, Oh, Doctor Beeching!, and You Rang, M\u2019Lord?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written in collaboration with Britain\u2019s foremost comedy historian, Robert Ross, producer and presenter of the hugely successful touring show Jeffrey Holland: Comedy Friends and Heroes, this unique memoir reveals the hilarious tales from Holland\u2019s long and illustrious career, through the comedy greats that have inspired him, to the comedy colleagues with whom he has worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will be heart-warming stories from his twenty-year association with Paul Shane and Su Pollard: BBC\u2019s comedy \u2018A\u2019 Team of sitcom. There will be poignant and deep reflection on his all-time favourite comedian, Stan Laurel, and revealing stories of working with the great and good of variety theatre \u2013 from understudying Frankie Howerd in pantomime, to unforgettable encounters with Ben Warriss, the no-nonsense straight man of Jewel and Warriss fame, via many happy years as part of Russ Abbot\u2019s Madhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention blissful thoughts on the joy of The Goon Show, and the thrill of stepping into the huge shoes of Peter Sellers, when the crazy characters were resurrected for Goon Again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filled with the enthusiasm and affection, The First Rule of Comedy..! is a life told through the eyes of one of the true greats of the genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-order here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coming this Spring a New Collaboration between Jeffrey Holland and Robert Ross Fondly remembered as Spike Dixon in Hi-De-Hi, Jeffrey Holland is one of our best-loved situation comedy actors. An invaluable member of the repertory company of writer and director David Croft, his many other television credits include Are You Being Served?, Dad\u2019s Army, It … Continue reading The First Rule of Comedy ..! Memories and Moments by Jeffrey Holland with Robert Ross<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[82,64,10,79,80,77,76,21,67,16,78,81],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-bbc-comedy","tag-book","tag-comedy","tag-croft-and-perry","tag-dads-army","tag-hidehi","tag-jeffrey-holland","tag-laughter","tag-order-now","tag-robert-ross","tag-stanlaurel","tag-su-pollard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}