THE PATTON BROTHERS Laughing All Our Lives

Brian and Jimmy Patton are familiar to millions of viewers for their appearances alongside their brothers Paul and Barry Elliott in the award-winning series Chucklevision. But for the Patton Brothers that has been only one chapter in a seventy year show business career that has taken in just about every element of post-war light entertainment, from variety to TV, revue to pantomime (in which they made a record-breaking 56 consecutive appearances), Butlins to Sunday Night at the London Palladium, and tours of Europe, Africa and Australia. In this joyous recollection of a lifetime in laughs, the Patton Brothers take us on a tour of the great days of British entertainment, recalling the sights, the sounds, the stars, the laughter and the tears. Filled with often hilarious behind the scenes stories, this book will be sure to fascinate anyone interested in British comedy and variety in its golden age.