CHEER UP LOVE
Susan Calman
The Scottish comedian and TV presenter tells the honest truth about mental health in her own funny way. This book bundles his stand-up comedy and TV personality together to show how he made it to be such a huge success. Inspirational, hilarious, and completely candid.
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2024 Audie Award for Humor Winner
Grand Central Publishing 'Leslie F*cking Jones' by Leslie Jones
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Leslie Jones is an undisputed queen of comedy, having been a regular Saturday Night Live cast member from 2014 to 2019.
. Bossypants is a national bestseller that topped the ‘New York Times Bestseller’ list five weeks in a row sold over a million copies. This is a cheeky, unabashedly humorous yet poignant memoir about her eccentric childhood and the dark, perturbing yet beautiful moments of her life. Haddish also addresses the hurdles she faced when she started finding success, and the way that impacted the close relationships in her life.
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- Entertainers are celebrated for finding the funny in the way we live — and that's especially the case when it comes to their own lives.
- Good celebrity autobiographies are laugh-a-minute tales of madcap childhoods or eventful rises to fame.
- Here, we've rounded up the most hilarious memoirs on the market, with stand-up comedians leading the way.
- If you're looking for a laugh, Amy Schumer, Nick Offerman, and Tina Fey are among those who are almost guaranteed to help.
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When in the mood for an entertaining read, comedic autobiographies are perfect.
He may be a major movie star now, but he relentlessly toured his comedy routine all over the United States for years before he broke into acting. Become an Insider and start reading now.Have an account? In I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons, Hart reflects on his early life, his first marriage, and the sacrifices he made in order to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian.
Her sense of the absurd and admissions of her own hang-ups make this a laugh-out-loud read, and an insightful one to boot.
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'This is Going to Hurt' by Adam Kay
It's not often that NHS junior doctors have the time to tell the tales of the wild and wacky things they encounter in a day's work.
"Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story" by Chuck Klosterman
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“Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story” is a memoir penned down by American pop-culture journalist, critic, humorist, and essayist Chuck Klosterman. outrageous, courageous, moving, ironic and true.”—New York Times Book Review
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From shooting Lulu (literally) to fights and heartache, this book, like her life, really is ‘bonkers.’
£9.99 Penguin
BOSSYPANTS
Tina Fey
Ever been called bossy?
£8.99 Orion
DEAR FATTY
Dawn French
Taking you on a journey from her flat-sharing with Jennifer Saunders and her views on sizeism to her marriage to Lenny Henry, Dawn French’s autobiography is bound to put a smile on your face as you explore her hilarious and complex life story.
She has covered everything about her life by using humorous anecdotes, from childhood to being on Saturday Night Live & from creating 30 Rock to motherhood, and more. The New York Times called it “a winningly snarky memoir”.
Funny excerpts from the book:
"I was under the impression clichés could ruin you, ruin your life, your hopes and dreams, bring down your whole operation if you didn’t watch it.Some authors write about their life’s trials and tribulations in such an engaging and witty tone that reading them becomes no less than a laugh riot.