Nailing It

Rich Hall's Nailing It is a collection of hilarious and often absurd epiphanies from his life, delivered in his unique deadpan style. Growing up, Hall aspired to be a writer but found himself doing a one-man show in a state university campus in Kansas. The book is not about glitz or fame, but about accidentally melting Kraft cheese at his first Edinburgh Fringe Festival, alienating an entire convention of RV holiday-makers in Las Vegas, singing The Who's You Better You Bet at a charity gig, and attempting to seduce Karen, who is now his wife.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 11 May 2023
Publisher: Quercus Publishing

A hilarious and captivating collection of true stories from one of the comedy greats, Bill Bailey!

I absolutely adored this book. I couldn't put it down and savored every word. It's rare for comedians to be as funny on paper as they are on stage, but Rich Hall truly nails it.

A wild and wonderful love letter to comedy, Adam Hills praises Hall's ability to translate his humor to the written word.

A collection of hilarious and often absurd epiphanies in the legendary comedian's life that defined him, more in a for worse than for better kind of way, and all delivered in his unique deadpan style.

Growing up, Rich Hall aspired to be a writer, and after school, he trained to be a journalist. However, after a stint at the Knoxville News Sentinel in Tennessee, he found himself trying to impress a girl by doing a one-man show in a state university campus in Kansas, armed with a bucket, a loudhailer, and some dog biscuits. It wasn't exactly a triumph, and he didn't get the girl, but he had found his true calling.

Nailing It is a collection of true stories from both Hall's professional and personal life, where he really had to nail it. They're not about glitz, fame, or how he met his seventh wife at the rehab clinic and found spiritual direction. None of that happened to him. They're about accidentally melting Kraft cheese at his first Edinburgh Fringe Festival, alienating an entire convention of RV holiday-makers in Las Vegas, singing The Who's "You Better You Bet" at a charity gig and turning his performance into a legendary rock 'n' roll disaster, and attempting to seduce Karen, which must have been successful because she is now his wife. And other such escapades.

Hall doesn't always come out of them all covered in glory - far from it - but if someone propped him up at the end of the comedy bar and put a 50p coin in his hand, he'd have no complaints.

This book is a must-read for anyone who loves comedy, and for those who are curious about the inner workings of a comedic mind. Rich Hall's unique storytelling style and his ability to find humor in even the most mundane situations make this collection a joy to read. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to laugh out loud and feel inspired.

Weight: 230g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529422450