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Johnny speight autobiography

          Johnny Speight (2 June – 5 July ) was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms.

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        3. Johnny Speight learned life the hard way, from London's Canning Town in the early s to the world of Rolls-Royces and credit cards.
        4. It Stands to Reason: A Kind of Autobiography.

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          With his creation of Alf Garnett and Till Death Us Do Part, Johnny Speight (born in Canning Town, London, on 2 June 1920) expanded the boundaries of what was possible in British television comedy.

          Addressing such previously sacrosanct subjects as the class system, politics and royalty, often in colourful language, he became one of the genre's most controversial writers, notorious for his approach to race issues and ethnic minorities in this and other series.

          After twenty years and a variety of occupations, an introduction by Frankie Howerd (they held a mutual acquaintance) to Eric Sykes and Spike Milligan led to his first professional work as a writer on the radio series Mr Ros and Mr Ray (BBC, 1955), supplying jokes for bandleaders Edmundo Ros and Ray Ellington.

          His association with Sykes and Milligan, and their recently established writers' co-operative, Associated London Scripts, led to television work, beginning with sketch material for the opening 4 October 1