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My Shit Life So Far
 
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Ever since being brought up by The Beatles, Frankie Boyle has been a tremendous liar. Join him on his adventures with his chum Clangy The Brass Boy and laugh as he doesn't accidentally kill a student nurse when a party gets out of hand. I don't think anyone can have written an autobiography without at some point thinking "Why would anyone want to know this shit?" I've always read them thinking "I don't want to know where Steve Tyler grew up, just tell me how many groupies he f**ked!"' So begins Frankie's outrageous, laugh-out loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it. From growing up in Pollockshaws, Glasgow ('it was an aching cement void, a slap in the face to Childhood, and for the family it was a step up'), to his rampant teenage sex drive ('in those days if you glimpsed a nipple on T.V. it was like porn Christmas'), and first job working in a mental hospital ('where most evenings were spent persuading an old man in his pants not to eat a family sized block of cheese'), nothing is out of bounds. Outspoken, outrageous and brilliantly inappropriate, Frankie Boyle, the dark heart of Mock the Week, says the unsayable as only he can. From the TV programmes he would like to see made ('Celebrities On Acid On Ice: just like Celebrity Dancing On Ice, but with an opening sequence where Graham Norton hoses the celebrities down with liquid LSD'), to his native Scotland and the Mayor of London ('voting for Boris Johnson wasn't that different to voting for a Labrador wearing a Wonder Woman costume'), nothing and no one is safe from Frankie's fearless, sharp-tongued assault. Sharply observed and full of taboo-busting, we-really-shouldn't-be-laughing-at-this humour, My Shit Life So Far shows why Frankie Boyle really is the blackest man in show business.

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I can't stop laughing!
 
Review Date: October 1, 2009
Reviewer: Comedy fan, UK
This is the funniest autobiography i've ever read. Bored of the same old, run of the mill celebrity drivel, i was hoping Frankie would deliver something different - which he has. Hilarious, rude and offensive, Frankie tells it like it is (even though we might not dare to say it). I bought this book this morning and read it in one sitting it's that entertaining. Just a word of advice - don't read it while eating or drinking. I exploded with laughter, covering my partner in a fine spray of beer. Enjoy.
Superb stuff
 
Review Date: October 3, 2009
Reviewer: Steven Brown,
I read 2 pages of the introduction when I saw it in a bookshop, and was laughing so much that I bought it there and then.

If you're a fan of his stand-up or Mock the Week, you'll definitely enjoy this - it's written in exactly the same style - crude, cutting, and very very funny.

In summary, a hilarious alternative to standard, boring celebrity biographies.
That's Frankie, ladies and gentelman.
 
Review Date: September 6, 2010
Reviewer: Kuba,
If you liked him in Mock the Week then buy his dvd first, or see his stand-up. After that, if you still like him, buy this book. It's brilliant. But who am I to judge that? In Frankie's own words: "What kind of person buys the authobiography of a panel show contestant? Wake up you C..T" :)
Excellent
 
Review Date: September 2, 2010
Reviewer: Martyn Brunskill, UK
This book is easy reading and really funny, I found myself reading it in a Scottish accent :-)
So Un-PC...Fantastic!!
 
Review Date: August 22, 2010
Reviewer: Ms. Kelly E. M. Taylor,
In such a PC world (will someone pleeeease think of the children!!!) this book is like a cold lager on a vey hot summer day - love it.
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