Max Miller (comedian) office sales. Miller influenced many comedians during his lifetime and since. His jokes live on and are often told by other comedians. The late comedian Walter William Bygraves became known as "Max Bygraves" after his impersonation of Miller. Miller is also featured on the cover of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". The biography, "Max Miller the Cheeky Chappie" by John M. East was published in 1977. A paperback version was issued in 1993 with additional material. Two paperbacks containing Miller's jokes have been published: "The Max Miller Blue Book" compiled by Barry Took and illustrated by cartoonist
The Comedian as the Letter C "Socrates of snails" leave his homeland for the sea, and refocus his imagination and refashion himself On porpoises, instead of apricots,<br> And on silentious porpoises, whose snouts<br> Dibbled in waves that were mustachios,<br> Inscrutable hair in an inscrutable world. The intense word play of "Comedian" is the indirection Stevens needs to address the struggle to grow, which is indeed underway in the poem itself. (Another interpretation would dismiss the word play as Stevens's aestheticism and dandyism/hedonism.) The sea journey causes his old poetic self to be "dissolved", "annulled", leaving only a problematic "starker, barer self", an "introspective voyager". His imagination