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

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Illustrated by Henry Paker, friend and fellow comedian, who has worked on all Adam’s bestselling children’s books, Kay’s Incredible Inventions is funny and factual, written with the UK's Key Stage 2 science and history curriculum very much in mind, and is destined to inspire the next generation of scientists and inventors. Just like Kay's Marvellous Medicine and Kay's Anatomy, Kay's Incredible Inventions offers wonderfully gross and wonderfully funny entertainment. It offers fun first but also education by stealth.

The book, which he wrote during the coronavirus pandemic, takes a look at television in the 1990s and how it influenced him growing up. If you want to get in touch with the show with any correspondence, kids intro audio clips, small business shout outs, and more.... Tope, Rebecca. Sabine Baring-Gould. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 24 February 2023.Josh is now going on tour in the West Country, with comedy gigs in Yeovil, Bath, Torquay and Weston-super-Mare, between November and April 2022. Series P, Episode 13 - Phenomena". British Comedy Guide. n.d. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. Together it tells the story of the end of an era, the last time when watching television was a shared experience for the family and the nation, before the internet meant everyone watched different things at different times on different devices, headphones on to make absolutely sure no one could watch it with them. From its title downwards, The Last Leg busts taboos with its irreverent humour. “When people with disabilities get together, the humour gets very dark, very fast,” says Jones. “Nothing is off limits.” Hills agrees: “It’s getting hard to come up with disability jokes which are edgy enough. Paralympians are way more inappropriate than we could ever be.” Million Pound Charity Drop Benefits Disability Charities". PosAbility Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013 . Retrieved 7 June 2020.

And it was a shared thing. You knew if you were watching something that was scheduled, your friends would be watching it in their house. And you'd have to be watching it if you wanted to talk to them the next day, because that's what you'd be talking about. Josh Widdicombe on writing 'Dora the Explorer' - The Graham Norton Show: Episode 3 - BBC One". The Graham Norton Show. Series 17. Episode 3. 24 April 2015. BBC1. Archived from the original on 7 May 2015 . Retrieved 28 April 2015.

Using a different television show of the time as its starting point for each chapter Watching Neighbours Twice a Day... is part-childhood memoir, part-comic history of '90s television and culture. 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. A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could deliver' James Acaster I can definitely associate with that as the amount I watched as a teen easily surpasses time spent now. A selection of some of our favourite chats about (mostly) parenting misadventures with previous guests...