Czech Comedians - Ivan Mladek, Robert NEB?Ensky, Spejbl and Hurvinek, Lud?k Sobota (Paperback)

Chapters: Ivan Mladek, Robert Neb?ensky, Spejbl and Hurvinek, Lud?k Sobota. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ivan Mladek (born 7 February 1942) is a Czech songwriter, composer, and comedian. Ivan Mladek was born in Prague, where he spent most of his childhood. His father, a lawyer and painter, taught him to paint, but he preferred music and started his now-famous Banjo Band. The Banjo Band first performed in 1966. In 1968 Mladek emigrated to France to pursue his music career in Paris. He soon returned to Czechoslovakia and became famous as a musician in the second half of the 1970s; he has written over 400 songs as of 2007. He became known as a comedian in the 1980s. Mladek's first humorous story was published in 1980 in the magazine Mlady Svt. Many of the stories that followed may be found in the eight books that Mladek wrote. Mladek has a wife named Eva and son named tpan.. Mladek is credited with designing the Guitariano, a guitar-shaped synthesizer. In place of strings, keys are arranged on the fretboard of the instrument, their pitch corresponding to the pitch of a string depressed at the same fret, and there are controls for automatic accompaniment on the body of the instrument. Ivan Mladek has been a widely known comedian since the 1980s. His shows "The Country Estrada" and "undrCountryShow" were on Czech television for many years. Eventually "undrCountryShow" was cancelled. "Country Estrada" was on TV NOVA until 2005 when it was abruptly canceled. A new similar comedy show (called Evergreen Show) aired on NOVA but was short-lived. Mladek himself has since claimed that he has no plans for another show, and that no station will finance this type of show anymore Re-runs of Mladek's older show are still regularly aired on T (eska televize)...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1158037