- Hardcover: 279 pages
- Publisher: Century; 1st Edition 3rd Printing edition (2 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846051614
- ISBN-13: 978-1846051616
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (146 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 94,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The autobiography of Britain's most popular comedian
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Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities and eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread, everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of nostalgia that never fails to grab his audience's shared understanding, have earned him comparisons with Alan Bennett and Ronnie Barker. In his award winning TV series' he creates worlds populated by degenerate, bitter, useless, endearing and always recognisable characters which have attracted a huge and loyal following. In many ways he's an old fashioned kind of comedian and the scope and enormity of his fanbase reflects this. He doesn't tell jokes about politics or sex, but rather rejoices in the far funnier areas of life: elderly relatives and answering machines, dads dancing badly at weddings, garlic bread and cheesecake, your mum's HRT... His autobiography is full of this kind of humour and nostalgia, beginning with Kay's first ever driving lesson, taking him back through his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held after school and leading up until the time he passed his driving test and found fame.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ends a bit too soon,
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This review is from: The Sound of Laughter (Paperback)
I'm not going to go into a great deal of depth here as there are already 96 reviews on this product, so I'll just give you my (short) opinion - brilliant!I've been a big fan of Kay for a while now and reading his heart-warming memories from his early life, written in a stand-up story kind of way I now have more of an in-sight into how he got into the show biz career he is so famous for now and have a history of all of the crappy jobs he had beforehand and the funny tales that accompany them. My only complaint is that the book finishes way too early as it doesn't really touch on his stand up, A Peter Kay Thing, Phoenix Nights or Max & Paddy days or his relationships with Paddy McGuiness or Dave Spikey. Hopefully this will mean that a follow-up is in the works (which might explain why he hasn't done much for the past year or so!). I normally hate reading biographies and auto-biographies, but this one I couldn't put down. An excellent and hilarious read.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great read - gentle, honest & very funny!,
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This review is from: The Sound of Laughter (Paperback)
This is an honest book written how Peter Kay actually talks. You can almost hear him reading it to you! A very enjoyable read. I took the book on holiday and embarrassed myself several times by laughing heartily out loud in public! So the title is very apt indeed! Read the book & make your own mind up, but give it a chance!!!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Sound of Laughter (Hardcover)
All in all I enjoyed reading the book, but the temptation to scan read some of it was constantly there.This is obviously a bestseller based on Peter Kay's popularity as a performer, not on his ability to write a good story. I was disappointed that this book ended at an era before most people had even heard of him. I am sure that this must be a cheap ploy to put out a Biography part 2 at sometime in the future. The thing that annoyed me most about this book though, was the grammatical errors in it. I read lots of biographies and I am used to seeing one or two mistakes, but this book had loads in it. The publishers should be ashamed of themselves for having such lazy proof readers. I'm off to write an autobiography of the first five years of my life..... Neal Williams - The Kindergarten Years.
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