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by Frank Skinner (Author, Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 4 hours and 22 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Abridged
  • Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
  • Audible Release Date: 25 Sep 2008
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQ10IU
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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Frank Skinner was one of the best-selling autobiographies of all time and perhaps the best reviewed. In this new volume of memoirs, Frank Skinner describes his experience of going back on the road and doing stand up again, after many years spent working exclusively on television.

His adventures on the road are by turns funny and moving as he meditates on growing older, the terrors and joys of trying to be funny in front of a live audience, and on the nature of comedy itself. He interweaves stories of his former laddish behavior and also tells a love story about a girl he had a brief fling with years ago who comes back into his life while he is touring. At the age of 50, Frank Skinner asks himself: Is it time to grow up?

©2008 Frank Skinner; (P)2008 Random House Audiobooks
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Fluently written, insightful and very, very funny. I read the 'banana' story in public and (genuinely) had someone come up to me and ask what I was reading, as I was laughing so much.

Note: I recommended this book to an intelligent, pretty & witty female acquantance, thinking it would (a) curry favour and (b) give her an insight into the strange workings of the male mind, and...since reading it she looks at me, er, differently...
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Excellent 17 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback
I love comedy, I adored this book. Frank is intelligent, self-deprecating, witty, did I say intelligent.....thank you for writing this, Frank
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Barmee
Format:Paperback
Frank says (wisely) that he tries to avoid reviews and revues.

I'll keep this review short - I loved this book from the moment I started it. It is an easy read (written mostly as a tour diary during 2007) ... but that is not to suggest that it is anything other than a thoroughly entertaining piece of work.

You are engaged from the very first lines (as he takes his 'Harry Potter' trip from Kings Cross to the Edinburgh Festival) and are forced to turn the pages as if the book were a good (and amusing) thriller. Frank can be both incredibly funny and then suddenly places his heart on his sleeve so that you feel his pain as he tries to decide if/why his show was good or bad.

You learn many things about Frank that you'd probably never have known from simply watching 'Frank the performer' (he's the UK's 69th most influential lay Catholic - who'd have suspected THAT?!) and as a result of these fearless revelations you find yourself warming to him very much.

A funny and honest man with a real heart. Read this book - it is every bit as good as his first one.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
On The Road - a great read, and not by Jack Kerouac!
This book charts Frank Skinner's return to stand-up after a decade's absence from the live stage. However, it is far more than your average collection of diary entries - it gives a... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Bookworm Baggie
Bananas, Benediction and The Fall
In the 2002 film, Comedian, Jerry Seinfeld was shown trying to build up his stand-up routine from scratch, after he'd dumped all his old material and was seeing if he could still... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. S. J. Wade
Frank Skinner's Musings
Bought to fuel my new admiration for Frank Skinner and for an accurate representation of what it's like to be a touring comedian this was a good read. Read more
Published 2 months ago by SilentSinger
Swings & Roundabouts
While 'On The Road' isn't as good as Frank's autobiography, it's still a good read, hilarious in parts but a little over analytical in others. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Duluoz Lautrec
Frank being frank.
As someone coming late to the reading craze having read one book every 40 years, I have now dramatically reduce it to one every 2 years. Read more
Published 14 months ago by maladjusted
love it
not disappointed arrived within 2 days perfect condition and Frank never fails to make me chuckle a must for all fans
Published 19 months ago by Jayne77
Utter drivel
I read his first book a while ago which was excellent. Unfortunately Skinner appears to have gone "Billy Connolly" & now inhabits a world far removed from most. Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2010 by Mr. David Nash
Incredibly Revealing
I read Skinner's autobiography a few years ago because someone loaned it to me, rather than because I deliberately went out to buy it. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2009 by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
FRANK FANS WILL LOVE THIS
REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK, IT'S ABOUT FRANK SKINNER, WELL KNOWN CHEEKY CHAPPIE, (HE WON'T MIND ME CALLING HIM THAT, WELL HE WON'T ACTUALLY KNOW AS HE DOES NOT READ REVIEWS)AND HOW... Read more
Published on 14 Sep 2009 by Ms. S. E. Isle
FRANK SKINNER ON THE ROAD
I have always loved Frank Skinner. This book explains the nuts and bolts of his profession. I have not yet read all the book but it is a good read and proves that it is possible... Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2009 by J. RANCE
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