I loved all the coming of age stories, the humour of it, but also the fact that he is not really clowning his younger self or the personal significance of those moments. He was surprisingly down to earth, and very funny” – still sometimes quoted by mainstream media as genuine tributes. I would recommend this book to everyone but I think a lot could be learned for teenagers and teenage boys. I know several people with the same mix of terrible impulses and good intentions, charisma and anti-social solitude: folk whose adolescence lasted twenty years. The condition isn’t helped because the default stance required to survive in our culture is to pretend to know what you’re doing, so we all end up suffering an illusory effect: everyone else seems to have it figured out, but because we know our own minds, we know we don’t.

We might not be living through a golden age for TV sketch shows just now, but Limmy’s Show was a brilliant one. When you hear something like that, along with the fact I earlier used the words “maximally niche”, you would be forgiven for thinking he was some hauty, intellectual type that is only funny in a very specific, academic way.When he dies, the title of his autobiography will both harken back to this absurd joke of his while genuinely being true of him. He regularly tweets about how much he misses drinking (which I've never seen an alcoholic do), and satirises the now-daily flamewars of the shouting classes by taking absurd and alternating stances on every issue (.

Although he’s now sober, Limmy has spoken previously about his alcoholism, drug issues and suicidal tendencies. There were a lot of times that I felt he was describing myself, being a semi-traumatised adhd 80s kid riddled with self doubt. I think this might be the most enjoyable book I’ve read so far this year and all I wanted to do was sit and carry on reading it until there was no more of it left to read.

it's definitely a very interesting read and I certainly recommend the audiobook version of not just this book but all of his previous books - It always adds a extra level of depth to hear him speak the words, and he's brilliant at it. And then into Design (a colony of the Art world, where a rough background's a bonus), and then to TV comedy, and then to streaming, where rawness and obliquity and patter means dollas. Limmy has been noted for the parody tributes he often tweets on the announcement of a celebrity's death; he invariably posts that he "had the pleasure of meeting [them] at a charity do once.

I don’t think I ever read/listened to an autobiography like this one, and the honest nature of the writing makes it so worth the time, whether you know his work or not, this gets to the deep inner workings of a person. It comes from a very real place, and it’s often his sheer audacity, coupled with a gift for timing, that makes you laugh. Enjoy the convenience of having The Sunday Post delivered as a digital ePaper straight to your smartphone, tablet or computer.One was the concept of anti-social behaviour, picked up by the Tories in the 1980s and later embraced by New Labour – ASBOs and all.