Painting the Clouds: Comedy isn't pretty...

During a career that spanned five decades and took him from a second-rate holiday camp to the Edinburgh Festival and London's West End - and then on to Cannes and Hollywood - Danny Knight was reliably outrageous, hilarious, shocking, provocative, controversial, disgusting, intelligent, and brave... but who was he? What made him such a unique, baffling, and contradictory personality? Why did he turn his back on fame and fortune and vanish from the public eye at the height of his notoriety? TOM LAYTON (author of The Land of Make Believe and Waiting for Tonight) presents a dazzling, kaleidoscopic insight into the difficult life and high times of a once-in-a-blue-moon comic talent who survived the sixties satire boom, the smut-laden surrealism of the seventies, and the alternative explosion of the eighties. You'd almost believe he was real...