Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

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Limond is kent fur the parody tributes he aften tweets efter the propalin o a celebrity's daith; he ay tweets that he "had the pleasure of meeting [them] at a charity do once. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Brian Limond was born on 20 October 1974 to Jessie and Billy Limond in Glasgow, and grew up in the Carnwadric area of the city. It’s been getting a bit icy here in winter and there was a bit of ice in the playground at my son’s primary school.

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Go too far in this game and earnestness and mockery can become inflated, and ultimately you could get “cancelled”. I was at his live show in Edinburgh which was amazing and I was the first to shake his hand after (he was hiding behind the exit door to shake everyone's hand).The deep function of laughter is apparently that it allows play / boundary learning / questioning social norms. But there are certain things, certain pastimes, that boys seem to take part in that don’t seem to be fucking taught. He was born October 20, 1974 in Glasgow, Scotland to Billy and Jessie Limond, and grew up in the Carnwadric area of the city.

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The other reason Lloyd Cole didn't like the book was because he didn't find Limmy, as a person, "likable" and I have to disagree with him here.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. It ran for three series and a Christmas special between 2010 and 2013, and won two BAFTA Scotland awards. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. In 2017, the BBC commissioned what was then a one-off special of Limmy's Homemade Show, which was broadcast in April 2018.

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From hilarious anecdotes to emotional admissions about his struggles with addiction and mental health, Limmy’s honesty and unflinching account of his life is very refreshing. Your response to the title of this autobiography will likely mirror your wider opinion on the work of Brian Limond, the Glaswegian comedian known as Limmy.

I could have guessed that he'd had a life like this from his characters; so much authentic idiocy, lunacy, awkwardness, pretension, and pettiness. If I can think of something funny in there, that’s a good start – I’ll stick with it and see what happens. It all coincidentally looks like something I’ve filmed since lockdown began because it’s just me and the camera, and if I do go outside, I make sure there’s no one else there,” he says. All told with his signature crass silliness, Limmy nonetheless hides nothing about his lifelong battles, inviting you into several unbelievable anecdotes and genuinely poignant passages challenging his past behaviour right up to the present moment. He doesn’t advocate doing it, but he talks about it in a fairly neutral way, like there’s no real danger to it.

Book review: Surprisingly down to earth, and very funny by Limmy

When it comes to writing, “Nothing is off limits in my head,” he says, “But I’m also very aware that I don’t want to cause offence to someone who might have gone through what I’m joking about. The conversation will go back to what it should be about – people who care passionately about the issues, but disagree constructively on what we should do about them. When you hear something like that, along with the fact I earlier used the words “maximally niche”, you would be forgiven for thinking he was some hauty, intellectual type that is only funny in a very specific, academic way. You get your fannies, your conservative right-wing types, your Piers Morgan sorts, who like to say things like, ‘Oh this is just a lot of nonsense, look at that fucking shite’, because it’s something that they didn’t hear before, and now they’re hearing it and it sounds like a big fashionable thing. Surreal and oh-so-Glaswegian comedian Brian Limond AKA Limmy might as well be the reason why social media was invented.

You can be an impressionable person – which I was – and want to be other people, rather than yourself.