his mum. thats the review

listen to this one, dont read it! he does all the voices, his mothers voice especially, and there are bits where he just laughs at his own story and you end up laughing with him because you are basically sat in a kitchen with the man.

I went in expecting comedian memoir, which usually means four good chapters and then something about the tour bus. this is not that at all. its about his mother. she is one of the most alive people I have ever come across in a book, and the last chapter, well. if you know you know. I was doing a supermarket shop and had to stand completely still in the cereal aisle for a minute.

the chapter about being thrown out of a moving minibus is the funniest thing Ive listened to in years and it is also about domestic violence, and he does both of those at once without either one cheapening the other. I genuinely don't know how that's done.

what stops it being a ten for me is that a few of the middle chapters are basically standup with a memoir frame round them. the CD selling stretch goes on a bit.

1. my mum listened to it after me and rang me about it at seven in the morning. she never rings