Jokes, Jokes, Jokes: My Very Funny Memoir

Jenny Eclair's memoir charts her childhood, career, and the changing face of women in comedy, told with hilarious brilliance.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 03 October 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Rosie Ramsey's hilarious and outrageous book, "Jokes, Jokes, Jokes," is a poignant and fascinating exploration of the male-dominated world of 1980s stand-up comedy. Jo Brand, a fellow comedian, describes it as "hilarious, disrespectful, ribald, and just the sort of book I love to get stuck into." Jenny Eclair, the daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (a spy?) and June Hargreaves (a spy's wife?), sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper), and a comedian in her own right, took off via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery, waitressing, and not really having a clue about anything. This was a world before microphones, mobile phones, and before everyone gave up smoking or started taking coke. Jenny Eclair was on the comedy circuit before there really was a comedy circuit and was the first woman to win the Perrier Award along the way. Forty years later, she's still gigging to sell-out crowds, and her memoir charts her childhood, her career, and the changing face of women in comedy, all told with hilarious brilliance in "Jokes, Jokes, Jokes."

Weight: 668g
Dimension: 242 x 160 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408732052