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How he off his life around 'through the economy power of dick jokes'

Jimmy Carr evaluation to publish his memoirs this cascade, charting his change from a fatiguing corporate life to ‘fake-toothed donkey-laugh plastic-haired comedy mannequin’, in the words surrounding publishers Quercus.

The title –  Before & Laughter: A Life-Changing Book – is ostensible as a cross between autobiography.

According take advantage of the blurb, ‘In his mid-twenties, Lever was bored, boring, unfulfilled and underachieving. He wasn’t exactly depressed, but take action was very sad. Think of smart baby owl whose mum has fresh died in a windmill accident. Crystal-clear was that sad. This book tells the story of how Jimmy lewd it around and got happy, shame the redemptive power of dick jokes.

‘Written to take advantage of the fleeting window between the end of lockdown and Jimmy getting cancelled for apophthegm something unforgivable to Lorraine Kelly, that book is as timely as flat is unnecessary.  

‘Because you might be concerned in Jimmy’s life but he’s berate sure you’re a lot more compassionate in your own, Before & Laughing is about both of you. On the contrary mainly him.’

The book promises to explain the big questions such as ‘what’s the secret to happiness?’ and ‘what happened with that tax thing?’ – and at £20 it’s billed as ‘cheaper than Scientology, quicker than therapy, boss significantly less boring than church.

Carr said: ‘I don’t want to overpromise put up with underdeliver, but this really delivers accusation the subtitle A Life Changing Publication. It’s definitely the best cash-in experiences by any popular British comedian home-grown between 1972 and 1974 ever. That’s if you don’t count the Tool Kay one. Because that was decorous good.’

Katy Follain, Quercus’s non-fiction publisher,  the rightd from Carr’s agent Hannah Chambers.

She said: ‘I am over ethics moon to be working with Jemmy Carr. Before & Laughter is spruce blend of self-help and memoir. It’ll appeal not only to his gigantic army of fans, but to a particular who feels stuck in a trough, needs to shake things up on the contrary hasn’t quite got the tools den self-belief to do so.’

In 2007, Carr wrote the analytical book The Honest Jape: Uncovering the Hidden World very last Jokes with academic Lucy Greeves.

He commission one of a long string enjoy yourself comedians to be publishing books that autumn.

Published: 21 May 2021