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Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography (2009)

de Jo Brand

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Jo Brand is one of Britain's funniest and best-loved comedians. With a sharp eye for the absurd and in her own unique voice she tells her story for the first time. What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy after ten years as a psychiatric nurse? How did she deal with late night drunken audiences? Raised in middle class comfort, she left home in her teens to live with someone entirely inappropriate. Her parents were aghast at her behaviour and attempted to rein in her excesses, finally giving up when she demonstrated that she was not headed for the life of a nun. From her early years growing up in a small south coast town with two brothers who toughened her up, to emerging on stage as 'The Sea Monster', Jo Brand tells it like it is with wit, candour and a wonderful sense that life can be ridiculous but there's always a funny side.… (mais)
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I quite enjoyed this book. It was an easy read and as with the autobiographies of Stephen Fry , Dawn French & Michael McIntyre that I have also read you can tell there is no ghost author involved as their personalities leap out of every page - not always the case.
I think if I were to meet Jo as a person not a celebrity or comic we would get on. ( )
  Susan-Pearson | Feb 23, 2023 |
Look Back In Hunger by Jo Brand Imagine being stuck in a lift with Jo Brand. You tell your life story in thirty minutes and then she begins to tell hers.
 
Six hours later she finishes and you have heard all the details of her life. She has been candid and your head is swimming in details about people, places, dates, items of clothing and various states of inebriation.  A kaleidoscopic story like a wash cycle which ends up with the Jo Brand that we all know stepping out of the machine. A story so improbable that it rings with the truth.
 
But having said that you have the feeling that you have heard the public version. ( )
  Ken-Me-Old-Mate | Sep 24, 2020 |
Short Ok read. I don't like stand up comedians in general but I've seen Jo Brand on Countdown and she always makes me laugh with her made up words. So this was picked up cheap at the local Lions Sale. Quite interesting, particularly the sections about her mental health nurse work. To my relief I didn't dislike her by the end although I'd still never go to her stand up show. ( )
  infjsarah | Aug 8, 2015 |
It wasn't about food really. Interesting book, seems very honest. I was surprised about her fathers behaviour. Full of admiration for her work as a nurse in mental health - lots of integrity, shame she is not working there now. Could do with people like her. ( )
  happyanddandy1 | Feb 22, 2014 |
Not as belly laugh-filled as I'd expected, but still interesting, charming and in places very moving. The focus is on her pre-comedy career, delivered in her unmistakable laconic style. She's not big on picking over the past, so the book reads as a series of vignettes with a few random tangents here and there. ( )
  missizicks | Mar 30, 2013 |
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Jo Brand is one of Britain's funniest and best-loved comedians. With a sharp eye for the absurd and in her own unique voice she tells her story for the first time. What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy after ten years as a psychiatric nurse? How did she deal with late night drunken audiences? Raised in middle class comfort, she left home in her teens to live with someone entirely inappropriate. Her parents were aghast at her behaviour and attempted to rein in her excesses, finally giving up when she demonstrated that she was not headed for the life of a nun. From her early years growing up in a small south coast town with two brothers who toughened her up, to emerging on stage as 'The Sea Monster', Jo Brand tells it like it is with wit, candour and a wonderful sense that life can be ridiculous but there's always a funny side.

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