Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

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You get your fannies, your conservative right-wing types, your Piers Morgan sorts, who like to say things like, ‘Oh this is just a lot of nonsense, look at that fucking shite’, because it’s something that they didn’t hear before, and now they’re hearing it and it sounds like a big fashionable thing. We played games for a while, then they got out a projector and lectured us about Jesus, to try and make us all good. In 2014, Limmy had a regular segment in the second series of the Charlie Brooker news satire show Weekly Wipe. The other reason Lloyd Cole didn't like the book was because he didn't find Limmy, as a person, "likable" and I have to disagree with him here.

Like, when we’d get the ferry over to Millport, he’d point down at the foam at the side, caused by the propellers or whatever it was, and he’d say that the foam was caused by sharks biting the water. The BBC commissioned a second series of Limmy's Show, which premiered on BBC Scotland in February 2011. I might have given you the impression that I had all these pals during my primary school years, and we’d go about causing mayhem. Auto theft, fanny fright, incompetent but dogged self-harm, raving and tripping as self-medication, dole stupor, bail skipping, the death drive, pretend machismo, pretend homosexuality, alcoholism, Flash animation, BBC showrunner. Combined with witty vignettes about his own life, Alan Partridge: Nomad shows off the best (or should that be worst) of the fictitious broadcaster who has now graced our TVs for almost three decades.I love Limmy and really enjoy his humour, but this was just so beyond what I enjoy reading lol Of course, I didn’t expect jokes constantly and I honestly really enjoyed his view on mental illness and being human, even when his writing got very dark at times. Limmy’s journey to stardom from the Carnwadric council estate on the south side of Glasgow has been a bumpy one. It has definitely gave me the confidence to go up and speak to him if I ever see him walking about town. You can be an impressionable person – which I was – and want to be other people, rather than yourself. Reading this feels far less like a TV comedian recounting their successes and failures, instead resembling a close friend spilling their secrets and fears in the early hours, interspersed with crude banter and surprise punchlines.

There’s a bit where he talks about going off antidepressants cold turkey, but he doesn’t really dwell on why this might not be such a good idea, and how some people end up dying thinking they can suddenly go off their mental health medication. It’s not that I still go out with a broken piece of a mirror in the summertime, I’ve grown out of that kind of stuff. If ye ever wanted a blow by blow account of the impact of imperialist British ideology on urban Scottish expression, then look nae further than this frank account by Limmy.And then it came out that his maw was a Trump supporter and she was pictured with the Confederate flag. I’m just fucking grateful I grew up at a time where there were no video cameras on everybody’s fucking phone. One of the stable joys of lockdown has been devouring Limmy content, quoting nonsense like "they're playing a wee game of ludo" or "it is fucking 90! Because I’m quite a public person, rather than a private, keeping-it-to-myself sort of person, all the stuff I typed about I’ve already told everybody about a million times anyway.