Born in Canning Town, east London, to Ukrainian-Jewish parents, Feldman left school at fifteen, worked at a seaside funfair and briefly pursued jazz trumpet before turning to comedy; by his twenties he was writing and performing with partners such as Barry Took, contributing scripts to Bootsie and Snudge, the radio hit Round the Horne and The Frost Report, and co-creating the “Four Yorkshiremen” s…
