Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

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He’s fairly famous in Scotland, less so in the rest of the UK, and I imagine he falls somewhere between unknown and maximally niche to the rest of the world. Candour alone doesn’t account for the amount of space he devotes to his first wank or the extent to which his sexual development was blighted by “fanny fright”. Limmy said: “When I did the third series it was beginning to feel a bit difficult and I didn’t want to go back over the same characters again.

Perhaps then the overriding takeaway of this book is how humour and personal struggle are two sides of the same coin. I somehow missed his podcasts but was excited and delighted to see his talents being appreciated by the big wigs when he got his own tv show Limmy's Show.

It all coincidentally looks like something I’ve filmed since lockdown began because it’s just me and the camera, and if I do go outside, I make sure there’s no one else there,” he says. 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. It’s more going to be wee things that pop out in my mind, all the bad stuff, all the mad stuff that’s happened.

Of course, he will die some day, and here he is naming his autobiography after a joke centred on the deaths of public figures.That much explains a lot of how his humour transfers to the page, but also does much more to cement the earnest nature, the honesty and the life experiences Limmy learned along the way. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. Very refreshing to hear his experiences of sexuality, mental illness and addiction, without any of the shame or male bravado that can make it hard to open up. This is the first time I've read an autobiography where, in the very minor way of an average fan, I've shared so many of the moments mentioned in the book.