Daisy May Cooper writes her memoirs

Don't Laugh, It Will Only Encourage Her out this autumn

Daisy May Cooper has written her memoir, entitled Don't Laugh, It Will Only Encourage Her.

Her book, described as ‘wonderful and ultimately uplifting’ will be published by Penguin Michael Joseph on October 28.

Cooper, who shot to fame via This Country before going on to appear on Taskmaster and in Armando Iannucci’s version of The Personal History Of David Copperfield, describes the book as a 'weird way of coping … trying to turn the bleakest situation into a positive'

She added: ‘When things were really bad, Mum would always say to me, "Don’t worry, it will be a good read for your memoir one day". Well, it seems that one day is today!

‘I have lived the most humiliating, ridiculous, screw-up of a shit-storm life and it has been an utter joy digging up all that shit and putting it down on paper. Therapeutic even.

‘I’m writing this memoir because I owe it myself to tell this story. I also really the need the money as we’ve got an ant infestation that needs sorting…’

Image shows Daisy May's book cover The book’s blurb explains: ‘Her first memoir will give an insight into life before fame, and illustrate that there is more to her than the funny woman the nation has taken to its heart. Growing up in rural poverty in Gloucestershire with her brother, Daisy had to work a myriad of low-paid, unrewarding jobs just to make ends meet.’