This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
07/09/2017 … Jeremy Hunt should be strapped in a chair, eyelids forced open Clockwork Orange-style, and be forced to read doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s memoirs from…
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07/09/2017 … Jeremy Hunt should be strapped in a chair, eyelids forced open Clockwork Orange-style, and be forced to read doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s memoirs from…
05/09/2017 … The cover line of James Acaster’s collection of autobiographical stories says it all: ‘Too err is human; to err enough to fill a book isn’t.
13/07/2017 … Regular listeners to Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast will require no further introduction to his ‘emergency questions’.
12/07/2017 … Eddie Izzard thinks himself ‘a naturally boring person’, which is a needless modesty for someone who has always seemed to defy conventional thinking.
26/05/2017 … That’s Your Lot is an apt title for Limmy’s second book of short stories, as many of the tales stop abruptly once they've floated an intriguing idea…
04/05/2017 … Oh no! Not another arena-filling comedian with a quasi-academic tome about neuroscience.
04/01/2017 … Trevor Noah’s rise through the international comedy circuit to become host of The Daily Show has been swift.
19/12/2016 … With A Horse Walks Into A Bar, Israeli writer David Grossman accomplishes the seemingly impossible and transposes an entire stand-up show into a novel.
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