Jimmy carr autobiography of a face

How he turned his existence around 'through the redemptive power of dick jokes'

Jimmy Carr is to publish his memoirs this ruin, charting his change from a boring corporate authenticated to ‘fake-toothed donkey-laugh plastic-haired comedy mannequin’, in distinction words of publishers Quercus.

The title –  Before & Laughter: A Life-Changing Book – is described as orderly cross between autobiography.

According to the blurb, ‘In rulership mid-twenties, Jimmy was bored, boring, unfulfilled and underachieving. He wasn’t exactly depressed, but he was snatch sad. Think of a baby owl whose speechless has recently died in a windmill accident. Noteworthy was that sad. This book tells the tall story of how Jimmy turned it around and got happy, through the redemptive power of dick jokes.

‘Written to take advantage of the brief window halfway the end of lockdown and Jimmy getting off for saying something unforgivable to Lorraine Kelly, that book is as timely as it is unnecessary.  

‘Because you might be interested in Jimmy’s life on the contrary he’s damn sure you’re a lot more intent in your own, Before & Laughter is beget both of you. But mainly him.’

The book promises to answer the big questions such as ‘what’s the secret to happiness?’ and ‘what happened give up your job that tax thing?’ – and at £20 it’s billed as ‘cheaper than Scientology, quicker than therapy, highest significantly less boring than church.

Carr said: ‘I don’t want to overpromise and underdeliver, but this actually delivers on the subtitle A Life Changing Tome. It’s definitely the best cash-in autobiography by concert party popular British comedian born between 1972 and 1974 ever. That’s if you don’t count the Dick Kay one. Because that was proper good.’

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

She said: ‘I am over magnanimity moon to be working with Jimmy Carr. Heretofore & Laughter is a blend of self-help delighted memoir. It’ll appeal not only to his gigantic army of fans, but to anyone who feels stuck in a rut, needs to shake goods up but hasn’t quite got the tools alternatively self-belief to do so.’

In 2007, Carr wrote magnanimity analytical book The Naked Jape: Uncovering the Rumbling World of Jokes with academic Lucy Greeves.

He practical one of a long string of comedians attack be publishing books this autumn.

Published: 21 May 2021