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Jokes, Jokes, Jokes

My Very Funny Memoir

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Jokes, Jokes, Jokes

By: Jenny Eclair
Narrated by: Jenny Eclair
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 'Really funny & engaging. A breeze and a pleasure to read' Katherine Ryan

'As hilarious and outrageous as you might expect' Rosie Ramsey

'Funny. Poignant. Fascinating. Just the sort of hilarious, disrespectful, ribald book I love to get stuck into' Jo Brand

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How did little Jenny Hargreaves become Jenny Eclair and elbow her way into the male dominated world of 1980s stand-up?

Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy's wife?) sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper), Jenny's comedy career took off via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery, waitressing and not really having a clue about anything.

This was a world before microphones, mobile phones, before everyone gave up smoking or started taking coke. Jenny Eclair was on the comedy circuit before there really was a comedy circuit and was the first woman to win the Perrier Award along the way.

Still gigging to sell-out crowds forty years later, Jenny Eclair's memoir charts her childhood, her career and the changing face of women in comedy, all told with hilarious brilliance in Jokes, Jokes, Jokes, her very funny memoir.

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''Laugh out loud and moved to tears. Highly recommended' Josie Lawrence
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'A tonic for the soul' Jennie Godfrey
'Hilarious' Julian Clary
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Funny, insightful and at times sad, but what a life. Really enjoyed the book and having the author narrate added to it

Enjoyable memoir

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Very honest memoir as you would expect from Jenny. She describes herself warts and all which is very rare these days. Her description of family life in the 60's and 70's, brought back fond memories of my own childhood and her love for her parents shines through, without the gushing sentimentality so prevalent today.

Honest and throughly entertaining.

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Thoroughly enjoyed reading this, you won’t want to stop. Details her life all the way from babyhood to present day. Searingly honest and self deprecating the exploits she got herself into are many and varied and she doesn’t shy away from telling us it all. Brilliant book by one of our national treasures.

Absolutely brilliant memoir read perfectly by Jenny herself. Laugh out loud funny honest and brave.

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I loved this! What a good wee wummin . Didn’t expect to like it so much

Lovely lady

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Funny, sad, heartfelt and funny again and again - will miss Jenny’s narration as bumble about my evenings.

Loved it

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