Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

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Limmy was in a relationship with Lynn McGowan from 2000; [40] In January 2022, she announced they had separated. He’s become an accomplished Twitter provocateur too, his tweets after every celebrity death – “Had the pleasure of meeting … at a charity do once. It’s also refreshing to hear the story of a genuine self-made man, a rare TV talent who didn’t attend the Royal Conservatoire or private school.

While such antics may seem shocking to some parents in the 21st century, the kind who would never dream of letting their darling children play unsupervised on wasteground, we should remind ourselves it wasn’t so long ago that children were still expected to amuse themselves outdoors.You’ll struggle to find an adjective on most pages, but that lack of floweriness is direct and hugely refreshing. on their "Hot 100" list in 2006, which celebrated the people who made the biggest impact on cultural life in Scotland over that year. Between reading chapters of this book, I watched him compose a dance track in real time on the streaming platform Twitch, and most nights he can be seen live-streaming games or improvising short stories of the kind found in his previous two books, Daft Wee Stories and That’s Your Lot. Atheists always seem to come out of religious arguments worse, in terms of how much it ruins their day. There was no talk of a counsellor to know whether I was in the right frame of mind to take these things.

That feeling of disconnection may have shaped his unique, slightly disturbing brand of comedy, but it’s also brought struggles with depression and alcoholism. Limmy said: "It’s going to be wee things that pop out in my mind, all the bad stuff, all the mad stuff that’s happened. One of the stable joys of lockdown has been devouring Limmy content, quoting nonsense like "they're playing a wee game of ludo" or "it is fucking 90! Also, this was very good for a Swedish person to listen to as an audiobook to brush up on my understanding of the Glaswegian accent. 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.It’s a mantra which has come to shape his decade-long career producing some of television’s most irreverent and obscure comedy. And then into Design (a colony of the Art world, where a rough background's a bonus), and then to TV comedy, and then to streaming, where rawness and obliquity and patter means dollas.

The whole book is not unlike someone collaring you down the pub and telling you their whole life story with all its ups and downs. Maybe it's because he is used to writing up his thoughts, as he details in the various segments about his time on Twitter and away from the sitcom circle.Regularly spotted riding his bike around Glasgow, he is happy with his lot and that includes the decision to leave his old Limmy’s Show characters hanging in the wardrobe department. Auto theft, fanny fright, incompetent but dogged self-harm, raving and tripping as self-medication, dole stupor, bail skipping, the death drive, pretend machismo, pretend homosexuality, alcoholism, Flash animation, BBC showrunner. Its “raison d’etre” was meant to be to talk about mental health stuff, and it kind of does, but I submit that it is strongest for the fact that it shows you a normal guy who has fucked up, succeeded, fucked up some more, and is just plugging away at it. 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. We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers.

These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. There’s a bit where he talks about going off antidepressants cold turkey, but he doesn’t really dwell on why this might not be such a good idea, and how some people end up dying thinking they can suddenly go off their mental health medication. He said: “Maybe I’m a bit f***** up in the head and maybe that’s where my sense of humour comes from.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I could have guessed that he'd had a life like this from his characters; so much authentic idiocy, lunacy, awkwardness, pretension, and pettiness.