A Funny Life: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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There are so many anecdotes and stories but also private details of his earlier debt, the problems encountered with moving house and more. Waking up the next morning in the tiny rented flat he shared with his wife Kitty and their one-year-old son, he was beyond excited about the new glamorous world of show business.

I don’t watch a lot of comedy these days and I truly cannot stand what many people seem to love, but he’s an exception. He is brilliant at narrating, using different voices for impersonating people, and it really feels as though he is sitting with you chatting, as now and again he interrupts the narrative with off the cuff remarks and asides.I’m by no means a super fan but I really enjoyed listening to how he rose from nothing to such highly acclaimed comedy stardom, fortune and fame.

Like most people in the country, I absolutely adore Michael McIntyre - I’m sure there are some people who don’t, but I haven’t met them and I don’t wish to.Michael has had a silly life, a stressful life, sometimes a moving and touching life, but always a funny life. Written during lockdown, Michael McIntyre's autobiography picks up where his last one left off; just on the cusp of being catapulted into stardom. Regardless, it’s a very well written memoir; funny, of course, but also very poignant in places too. There's also the birth of his two sons and his incredibly supportive wife as they go from crippling debt to struggling to get on the property ladder as well as hilarious anicdotes about past neighbours and such along the way. It is clear that McIntyre is a man who is in his element when everything revolves around him, when there are others in the limelight, he is self aware enough to know that he does not do as well.

His love for his family comes through clearly as well as the friendships and support he has received from the teams he works with. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Although I am aware of Michael McIntyre, his huge popularity making him hard to miss, I have never seen his record-breaking comedy DVD's, or various TV projects. Becoming a success in any profession, let alone something as difficult as showbiz, is full of highs and a lot of lows, and he doesn’t ignore these. I read his previous autobiography many years ago and this follows on from 2006 and goes up to when he won a BAFTA in 2017. There are some jokes that I do remember that I would love to hear again one day – maybe audiences could do a vote on what jokes out of a list of options could be included each night, with them mixed in with new material.