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Throughout there is a few great points where it refers to how television shows shaped his childhood and also some facts about some of those shows you may not even remember.
Filled with all the things they never tell you at antenatal classes, it’s a charming mixture of humour, rumination and conversation and is aimed at prospective parents, new parents, old parents and never-to-be parents alike. Much-loved comedian Josh Widdicombe tells the story of a strange rural childhood, the kind of childhood he only realised was weird when he left home and started telling people about it.
There were kids at my school who liked bands, kids who liked football and one weird kid who liked the French sport of petanque, however, we all loved Gladiators, Neighbours and Pebble Mill with Alan Titchmarsh (possibly not the third of these). It will discuss everything from the BBC convincing him that Michael Parkinson had been possessed by a ghost, to Josh's belief that Mr Blobby is one of the great comic characters, to what it's like being the only vegetarian child west of Bristol.
I can definitely associate with that as the amount I watched as a teen easily surpasses time spent now. He has also made regular appearances on The Jonathan Ross Show, A League of Their Own, Michael McIntyre's Big Show and The Graham Norton Show.The audio book is read by Josh but also has a few interviews with stars of the 90s including Jet from Gladiators and Pat Sharp, and an interview about the book itself at the end with his friend James Acaster. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.
Anyway, Josh begins by discussing Gus Honeybun, a regional ITV children’s puppet famous to anyone growing up in the south-west of England at almost any point during the last four decades of the 20th century but wholly unfamiliar to me and the vast silent majority of the world who grew up anywhere else.Getting to the epilogue was genuinely hard because his nostalgic recap made me miss what I wish we could recapture—optimism. I also think the book makes an excellent point about the importance of television in the pre-digital era.
This is a book about growing up in the '90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched. Delivered with his unique style and trademark wit, Josh proves that even the most mundane aspects of life can be turned into unbelievable accounts with hilarious consequences.There's not many times over the past few years that I have actually found myself laughing out loud at a book. I think this is better than an average sort of biography, and really explores the fundamentals behind a person, and the culture that shapes them.
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