Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'This delightful memoir is guaranteed to put a smile on your face'

David Hughes, Mail on Sunday
'Warmth of heart, love of language, sense of mischief … he makes you rock with laughter'

Sir Harry Secombe, Sunday Express
'A treasure trove of funny stories… a warm, witty, and extremely well-written book'

John Carey, The Sunday Times
'Frank Muir is not just very funny. He is also a scholar with an enormous fund of curious learning. His intelligence, taste and genius with the English language is all his own'

For more than twenty-five years Frank Muir, in partnership with Denis Norden, produced some of the most sparkling and original comedy ever written for radio and television. Later, working at the BBC and then at London Weekend Television, he produced some of the most popular television comedy of 1960s and 70s.

From his very first joke at the age of six, Frank Muir knew that his destiny was to make people laugh. He also know from an early age that he wanted to write, but it took a childhood illness for him to discover that humour and writing could be combined. The death of his father forced him to leave school at the age of fourteen and work in a factory making carbon paper.

But it was during the Second World War, as an air photographer in the RAF, that he really began his career as scriptwriter and performer. At his demob in 1945 he moved naturally to London and the Windmill Theatre, before joining the BBC, the legendary partnership with Denis Norden, and half a century of fulfilling the boyhood ambition of that Kentish lad.