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When Will I be Famous? [Paperback]

Martin Kelner (Author)
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Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph

Anarchic

Dave Gorman

Painfully Funny

Jon Ronson

A warm, funny and affectionate journey into the chilly backwoods of celebrity, a world I fear Martin Kelner knows only too well.

Maxim, July, Book of the Month

hilarious dissection of the UK fame game . . . a savagely ridiculous book

Maxim, July, Book of the Month

few were aware that Martin Kelner was the greatest chronicler of the age but here's the proof.

Product Description

A trail around the clubs, pubs, functions, and shows of the UK exploring those crazy folk bent on entertaining us.

From the Author

My publishers, BBC Worldwide, have suggested I comment on my own book. My view is that this makes me appear to be what my children would describe as 'sad', and I should probably call 'desperate'. But, as the BBC's publicity department is busting its ass to promote me as 'exciting new talent', I feel the least I can do is comply. After all, it is very rare for a white middle-class male like me, over 50, ever to be described as any of those things, especially exciting.

Maybe if I had spent 30 years in prison, or had written the book with a ball-point pen inserted into my left nostril after suffering total paralysis in a landmine explosion in Laos, the world would forgive me for being middle-aged and comfortable. Sadly, though, the only thing inserted into my nostril during the composition of my award-winning book was my finger, surreptitiously, at traffic lights. Not very wholesome, I confess, but if the professional footballer Maradonna had followed my lead he might have saved himself a lot of trouble.

As far as the book is concerned, there are, by my reckoning, at least five half-decent jokes in it, and the fun for you, the reader, will be in scouring the 200-odd pages to try and identify them. Where else is such fun on offer for less than the price of a pint in Copenhagen? It's not likely to be made into a film so you might as well buy the book.

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