Jason Manford is firmly established as one of the
country's favourite stand-ups and is up there with the
best northern comedy legends. His career began one night
in a pub in Chorlton when a comedian didn't arrive for
his set and Jason, the 17-year-old glass collector
stepped in to fill the gap. From that point on he's
never looked back, until now that is...This is the story
in his own words of everything that lead up to that
fateful moment - a colourful tale of growing up with
lots of family and not enough money, of getting by and
sticking together. It is a story of his shameless
extended clan of wayward uncles and singing nans and a
gobby little knobhead at the heart of it all called
Jason.Featuring rock-hard great granddads, doting
grandparents, pub-crooning nanas, football-mad dads,
pet-obsessed mums, more dodgy uncles than you can shake
a stick at, failed exams, dead-end jobs, paper rounds,
prostitutes, shocked priests, manslaughter, winning
goals, sudden losses, replica shirts, chip-fat
incidents, scary pubs, pet meat, fighting Gandhis,
cancelled Christmases, Sir Oswald Mosley, flooded tents,
call centres, circumcision, puppy love, friends for
life, difficult girlfriends, gigs from hell, heart break
and, finally, true love...With his laugh-out-loud tales
of coming of age, Jason shows he's a generous
storyteller and as natural an observer on the page as he
is on stage. |
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