Jokes, Jokes, Jokes
My Very Funny Memoir
$31.50
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
17 December 2024
Summary
‘JOKES, JOKES, JOKES’ is Eclair’s account of how she elbowed her way into the male dominated world of 1980’s stand-up, via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery, waitressing and not really having a clue about anything. This is about years spent getting changed next to a deep fat fryer in rooms above pubs, and audiences expecting ‘a song’ or at least ‘some impressions’.
This is about a world…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408732069 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408732068 |
| Author: | Jenny Eclair |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 17 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 150mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Jenny Eclair
Stand-up comedian Jenny Eclair was the first woman to win the Perrier Award - the UK’s top comedy award - in 1995. Since then, she has also found fame as the author of six critically acclaimed novels and one non-fiction book. Her latest, Older and Wider, combines Jenny’s quintessential wry humour whilst covering the almost taboo topic of menopause. Jenny serves as a wise - but always witty - guide to others on the experience of menopause.
Jenny is currently touring the UK with SIXTY! (Ffs). This tour serves as a timely sequel to her previous stand-up show How to be a Middle-Aged Woman (without going insane), that sold out in venues across the UK - and as far afield as Australia! Her biggest theatrical hit to date has been co-writing (with Judith Holder) and starring in all three Grumpy Old Women Live shows, both in the UK and Australia.
She is the writer of the popular BBC Radio 4 series of monologues, Little Lifetimes. Jenny also co-hosts the Menopausal-friendly podcast, Older and Wider, with Judith Holder and has many TV and radio credits to her name.
Small screen highlights include all the Grumpy Old Women series, The Apprentice: You’re Fired!, Room 101 (BBC), Loose Women (ITV), Alan Davies As Yet Untitled, QI (UKTV), plus of course reality TV shows such as Splash (ITV) and I’m a Celebrity (ITV) in 2010, where she came third.
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