Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

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Prior to the show, Limmy had made a name for himself with online sketches and a daily podcast, and since it ended he’s stayed prolific creating Vines and Twitch videos.

Your response to the title of this autobiography will likely mirror your wider opinion on the work of Brian Limond, the Glaswegian comedian known as Limmy. Not Limmy’s fault of course, but I view myself as someone who can appreciate crass humour or explicit sex stories - and the stuff in this book was just way too bleugh for me. it's definitely a very interesting read and I certainly recommend the audiobook version of not just this book but all of his previous books - It always adds a extra level of depth to hear him speak the words, and he's brilliant at it. No, his humour is surprisingly down to earth, which makes the title of his autobiography an apt description of himself.He does it without fail for anybody famous enough, and he has a large enough following that it occasionally gets picked up by news outlets and broadcast morosely in serious contexts. It’s all told in an organic, uber-chatty way – ‘Anyway, what happened was this’ – as though it’s a transcribed audio-book. I relate to a lot of the shit he says and thinks in a way I don’t with any other comedian, there’s something kinda unique about his style that is far more memorable and engaging somehow. Limond describes the teenage years he spent drinking and getting into trouble, on one occasion stealing a car, with disarming honesty in his autobiography, Surprisingly Down to Earth and Very Funny.

I really didn't know what to expect, this book was recommended to me by a friend who turned out not to have read it himself, but turns out this is one of the strongest biographies I've read. I like stuff that isn’t particularly funny, too, just observations we drag out, or making stupid faces and then being serious again. During his time there, he was asked to contribute to the book New Masters of Flash: The 2002 Annual, a resource for Macromedia Flash developers.For all his online posturing – building a Twitter fandom loyal to his boilerplate tweets on celebrity deaths, announcing he has met them “at a charity do once and [they] were surprisingly down to earth and very funny” – Limond can be surprisingly earnest. I think that sort of thing can make you mental, depending on how severe it is and what kind of environment you're in. In terms of other material in the book, I checked with my girlfriend and she asked to keep our private stuff out but said she wanted to read about the rest of the details. Well the blood drained from my face listening to this because the exact same thing happened to me twenty-something years ago and it was a major trigger in my breakdown and took many years to realize those voices weren't real and no one said that horrible stuff.

In that Lloyd Cole review, which you can see Limmy talking about on his youtube channel, Lloyd Cole said maybe one reason he didn't get into the book was because he didn't know Limmy's work when he read it, and that much makes sense. But it was in these unpromising circumstances that he discovered his ability to entertain, amusing friends with improvised LSD-fuelled skits well into the small hours.I know several people with the same mix of terrible impulses and good intentions, charisma and anti-social solitude: folk whose adolescence lasted twenty years. While his ­autobiography will doubtless have the same skewed undertone, it’s also set to lay bare some of his shocking experiences with violence, misogyny, sexual paralysis and mental illness. I haven't listened to anything else for the last few days, and it's the best thing I've listened to in ages.

He tells a story of his younger days when he felt an evil ­presence in a poster of two sunflowers on the wall in a flat he shared with a friend. Maybe it's because he is used to writing up his thoughts, as he details in the various segments about his time on Twitter and away from the sitcom circle. One of the stable joys of lockdown has been devouring Limmy content, quoting nonsense like "they're playing a wee game of ludo" or "it is fucking 90! The lows like his girlfriend seeing him out drunk and just ignoring him as well as his general struggles with jobs/life are fascinating to hear.I would recommend this book to everyone but I think a lot could be learned for teenagers and teenage boys. I don’t think I ever read/listened to an autobiography like this one, and the honest nature of the writing makes it so worth the time, whether you know his work or not, this gets to the deep inner workings of a person. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. It’s one example of his talent for meshing the frequently absurd world created by digital media with age-old insecurities like social anxiety. Limmy has also engaged in various other pursuits, such as writing several books and performing live shows.