Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

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My favourite memory was of Gus Honeybun, the rabbit puppet that read birthday messages on ITV South West in Devon. There's not many times over the past few years that I have actually found myself laughing out loud at a book. Did I grow up in one of the best eras - pre internet but just at the tipping point of technology - fabulous. I want that book that tells the journey of the road to stand up as I am sure there are some fun stories to tell.

I live in Jersey, also part of South West, and we had Oscar Puffin but Gus covered during his holidays. And how come no one ever warned Rob or Josh of the sleep-depriving, sick-covering, tear-inducing, snot-wiping, 4am-relationship-straining brutality of it all? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A very amusing memoir from comedian Josh Widdicombe about growing up in a tiny Devon village, where he spent much of his time watching TV – either because he loved the shows or because there was nothing else on.stood for ‘Birthday Club’ which was also not entirely accidentally, the name of the short segments of TV, ‘B.

I didn't ever get into TFI Friday but I can now understand what the appeal was - I just wasn't at that point in life! Matt Phillips, publisher for Blink and John Blake, acquired world rights in a major deal from Flo Howard at Off The Kerb. We don't often get a chance to talk about the impacts of television (apart from news articles about the 'dangers'), so this was a refreshing read - a television equivalent of Acaster's "Perfect Sound Whatever". Now we have been given a book deal it is probably the time for me to admit to myself that complaining for an hour a week to Rob about my life has become the most successful thing I have done in 14 years in comedy. I'm definitely not his target audience as I was 24 when the '90s started, but nevertheless I enjoyed this and watched the majority of the shows he talks about in this gently amusing book.

But overall a great feel of the music, politics, sport and most importantly shows that I grew up with. A compelling, fascinating, and above-all, practical book which will do for men and women's relationships in the workplace what MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS did for their romantic relationships. Comedy and Music run through my veins and I love writing about them both, I adore interviewing acts and always on the lookout for something new! All in all, this book isn’t going to set the world on fire but it is a gentle nostalgia trip I’d recommend to around 4 people I know.