Dazzlingly funny memoir of Danny Baker's years in television.
Danny Baker is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. He currently presents a weekly show on BBC Radio 5 Live.https://twitter.com/prodnosewww.internettreehouse.co.uk/
From presenting cheeky trivia on teatime telly to a disastrous
panto sting, he's like a living poster of Kipling's If, happily
talking over both Triumph and Disaster. ...his own talents, at
least as a memoirist, are closer to that other driven south
Londoner Spike Milligan.
*INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY*
Going Off Alarming is quite simply the funniest book you'll read
all year. Seriously.
...Like its predecessor, the book is a hoot from soup to nuts,
easily as funny, as self-deprecating and as worldly-wise as The
Moon's A Balloon by David Niven. If you have been unlucky in life,
and have spent the bulk of it without coming into contact with him
or his work, then this book is a wonderful introduction. What's it
like? Well, it's like Tom and Jerry written by a Cockney Roddy
Doyle on Prozac. But funnier.
*GQ ONLINE*
..great company and a brilliant raconteur.
*THE OBSERVER*
Volume two of Baker's autobiography rattles along at the same
delightful and dizzying pace as its predecessor. ..Baker loves a
tale told at his own expense and they come thick and fast. He
writes like he speaks, with hyperactive garrulity and a rhetorical
flourish. ..there is something about Baker in full flow that is
affirming. Book three will doubtless be out for next Christmas but,
when it comes to the Pangloss of Deptford, you are happy to forgive
him the indulgence.
*DAILY TELEGRAPH*
For comic value, go for Danny Baker's latest memoir. The funniest
book Dylan Jones has read all year.
*GQ*
It's the strength of the anecdotes, and welcome digressions from
the narrative, that make the book such a delight.
*CHOICE MAGAZINE*
Any autobiography that opens with the author being shot in the
buttocks demands your complete attention. This book made me howl
with laughter
*HERALD SCOTLAND*
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