Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

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In the UK, Oasis album Definitely Maybe sold just over 2 million copies, quite boring TV show How Do They Do That? He has also made regular appearances on The Jonathan Ross Show, A League of Their Own, Michael McIntyre's Big Show and The Graham Norton Show.

It was interesting to see the other perspectives (and hear which other comedian Lou would have married – and may run off with in the future!This is a book about growing up in the '90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched.

Recorded at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, viewers of this tale twisting perfectionist can expect an insight into Josh’s everyday annoyances and gripes. Josh's frustrations are still bubbling over, from his overflowing shower to his contactless card via a night train back from Edinburgh.Josh Widdecombe is the funniest comedian I have seen live, both times I cried with laughter but unfortunately the book didn't do it for me, maybe if you're more into football it would resonate more. Together it tells the story of the end of an era, the last time when watching television was a shared experience for the family and the nation, before the internet meant everyone watched different things at different times on different devices, headphones on to make absolutely sure no one else could watch it with them.

I loved reading the references to things I had entirely forgotten about (You Bet, the theme tune to Big Break, the Martins in Neighbours). Anyway, Josh begins by discussing Gus Honeybun, a regional ITV children’s puppet famous to anyone growing up in the south-west of England at almost any point during the last four decades of the 20th century but wholly unfamiliar to me and the vast silent majority of the world who grew up anywhere else.He also hosts one of the country’s most popular podcasts – Lockdown Parenting Hell– with fellow comedian Rob Beckett and Quickly Kevin Will He Score, a podcast about football in the 90s. Ghostwatch: Unlike Josh (and many others) I never thought this notorious dramatized ‘live broadcast from a real haunted house’ was actually real. And, happily, Josh’s household was so far behind that his memories of 1990s computer games sit happily with my memories of 1980s ones. Josh Widdicombe tours nationwide as one of the UK's finest stand-up comedians as well as co-hosting The Last Leg, and has starred on Have I Got News For You, Live At The Apollo, Taskmaster and numerous other TV comedy shows. Using a different television show of the time as it's starting point for each chapter Watching the Nineties is part-childhood memoir, part-comic history of 90s television and culture.