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Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye Of Chris Morris (2010)

by Lucian Randall(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1847371388 (ISBN13: 9781847371386)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Simon & Schuster UK

review 1: This book provides a backstory to 1990s and 2000s comedy history, showing a dense tapestry of comedy writers invovled throughout Morris' work. Contains a large amount of mundance facts about his childhoodAs a bon viveur, Morris should be admired as a multitalented individual who can block out the outside world when necessary to focus on creating work that's pure genius. He's an inspiring figure, and this book is probably the closest he'll get to a biography, but there's way too much filler and it just felt like a throwaway read. It contained far too many mundane facts to make me want to pick it up again.
review 2: Another pick up on a whim, I was certainly no fanboy of Chris Morris, but had enjoyed Brass Eye and his other work.The book is a strange amalgam of s... morehort biography and then almost a "videography" of his work, and how he developed his style and approach.Unusually for this sort of book, the main subject contributed little to the process, other than allowing the author access to his friends and colleagues.This is the weak point of the book for me - there is a lots of supposition around his motives and aims, but that's where it remains, there is no definitive answer provided.The book serves as an excellent means of placing the work within a social and historical context, but ultimately I was expecting more than that from it. less

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