Oh Little BooK-Bee Gees

An uproariously funny collection of true stories from one of the comedy greats BILL BAILEY I loved this book. Absolutely adored it. I devoured it and savoured every word. A wild and wonderful love letter to comedy ADAM HILLS Its rare for comedians to be as funny on paper as they are on stage but Rich Hall nails it CARL HIAASEN A collection of hilarious and often absurd epiphanies in the legendary comedians life that defined him more in a for worse than for better kind of way and all delivered in his unique deadpan style. Growing up Rich Hall aspired to be a writer and after school he trained to be a journalist. But after a stint at the Knoxville News Sentinel in Tennessee he found himself trying to impress a girl by doing a oneman show in a state university campus in Kansas armed with a bucket a loudhailer and some dog biscuits. It wasnt exactly a triumph and he didnt get the girl but he had found his true calling. Nailing It is a collection of true stories from both Halls professional and personal life where he really had to nail it. Theyre not about glitz or fame or how he met his seventh wife at the rehab clinic and found spiritual direction. None of that happened to him. Theyre about accidentally melting Kraft cheese at his first Edinburgh Fringe Festival alienating an entire convention of RV holidaymakers in Las Vegas singing The Whos You Better You Bet at a charity gig and turning his performance into a legendary rock n roll disaster and attempting to seduce Karen which must have been successful because she is now his wife. And other such escapades. Hall doesnt always come out of them all covered in glory far from it but if someone propped him up at the end of the comedy bar and put a 50p coin in him these are the tunes he would spin. And youd be laughing all night.