Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

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He's not afraid to tell you about all the times he was a complete shitebag, or all the times he seriously contemplated suicide, and lots more really intimate stuff in between all the amazing moments in the career of someone who started making funny stuff on his homepage and ended up making funny stuff for his own BBC tv show, writing several books and being an all-around hilarious fucking legend. The reviewers' points seems to be there wasn't much of a clear message or goal of the book beyond retelling the events of his life. Funny that he comes from really near ek and I knew everywhere he was talking about when he was talking about his childhood. It comes from a very real place, and it’s often his sheer audacity, coupled with a gift for timing, that makes you laugh. The gag is a comment on the modern phenomenon of fake-sincere tributes posted on social media to people we have little, if anything, in common with.

They come out with it straight: they are clueless, everyone else is clueless, we’re all winging it, and we’re not always very good at winging it. One thing that might help to stave off that impending doom is Limond’s decision to stop writing for the foreseeable future and focus on his other passion instead: trucking. I somehow missed his podcasts but was excited and delighted to see his talents being appreciated by the big wigs when he got his own tv show Limmy's Show.I really didn't know what to expect, this book was recommended to me by a friend who turned out not to have read it himself, but turns out this is one of the strongest biographies I've read. If I’m absent-minded or don’t fit in, it’s almost expected of me now, but I couldn’t get away with that in a real job. What was clear was that he's a lovely, compassionate man, and while I can't know how the past few years have planned out for him, I hope he's found some peace with himself, and with the family he so clearly loves.

It reads like a chronological collection of anecdotes surrounding the theme of being a bit of a weirdo, and sometimes that’s just what we need: a reminder that other people are as wonky as we are. I think that sort of thing can make you mental, depending on how severe it is and what kind of environment you're in. He speaks openly about his childood, his struggles with alcohol, his, often disastrous, relationships with women and his mental health issues. I relate to a lot of the shit he says and thinks in a way I don’t with any other comedian, there’s something kinda unique about his style that is far more memorable and engaging somehow.He has long been candid about his struggles with mental health, and spoken at length in interviews of overcoming alcoholism while in his 20s. 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. He tells a story of his younger days when he felt an evil ­presence in a poster of two sunflowers on the wall in a flat he shared with a friend. There’s a bit in this book where Limmy says the reviews of his stuff he’s into are the ones that say, I liked it, but. He’s like any of us (except, of course, with a better knack for weaving a funny story), and that makes us feel less alone.

I expected this to just be some f-ing nutter out of touch comedian trying to cash in on his 15 minutes, but was pleasantly surprised by how down to earth he was. I don't know what I expected to be honest but I didn't expect to actually have enjoyed this book as much as I did.He stops short of ascribing himself any major psychiatric labels and stresses he’s not ­trivialising people whose ­experience of disturbed thought patterns go well beyond his own. After continuing his comedy work for several years, Limmy was commissioned by BBC Scotland to create a sketch show, Limmy's Show. 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. No-one could mistake this for a self-help volume, unless you can imagine one written by an Irvine Welsh character, with a constant sense of unease, the threat of violence and endless weapons-grade swearing on the streets of Glasgow.

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Limmy appeared on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast in 2015, [27] 2017, [28] and 2020. 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. People have told me it does help to hear other people talking about mental health, even though I don’t give out advice on how to sort it out.