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How purify turned his life around 'through the redemptive power of cock jokes'

Jimmy Carr is to advise his memoirs this autumn, charting his change from a unequivocal corporate life to ‘fake-toothed donkey-laugh plastic-haired comedy mannequin’, in grandeur words of publishers Quercus.

The inscription –  Before & Laughter: Efficient Life-Changing Book – is described pass for a cross between autobiography.

According cause somebody to the blurb, ‘In his twenties, Jimmy was bored, boring, displeased and underachieving. He wasn’t on the dot depressed, but he was too sad. Think of a infant owl whose mum has not long ago died in a windmill misadventure. He was that sad. That book tells the story honor how Jimmy turned it bypass and got happy, through description redemptive power of dick jokes.

‘Written to take advantage of position brief window between the adversity of lockdown and Jimmy basis cancelled for saying something indefensible to Lorraine Kelly, this notebook is as timely as inundation is unnecessary.  

‘Because you might continue interested in Jimmy’s life nevertheless he’s damn sure you’re excellent lot more interested in your own, Before & Laughter pump up about both of you. Nevertheless mainly him.’

The book promises guideline answer the big questions specified as ‘what’s the secret pin down happiness?’ and ‘what happened unwavering that tax thing?’ – and test £20 it’s billed as ‘cheaper than Scientology, quicker than treatment, and significantly less boring facing church.

Carr said: ‘I don’t fancy to overpromise and underdeliver, on the contrary this really delivers on blue blood the gentry subtitle A Life Changing Picture perfect. It’s definitely the best cash-in autobiography by any popular Country comedian born between 1972 plus 1974 ever. That’s if paying attention don’t count the Peter Source one. Because that was starched good.’

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

She said: ‘I am over the moon make somebody's day be working with Jimmy Carr. Before & Laughter is a- blend of self-help and life. It’ll appeal not only put the finishing touches to his huge army of fans, but to anyone who feels stuck in a rut, requirements to shake things up however hasn’t quite got the channels or self-belief to do so.’

In 2007, Carr wrote the nosy book The Naked Jape: Exhibition the Hidden World of Raillery with academic Lucy Greeves.

He levelheaded one of a long case of comedians to be announcing books this autumn.

Published: 21 Might 2021