My Child and Other Mistakes: The hilarious and heart-warming motherhood memoir from the comedy star

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My Child and Other Mistakes is a frank and funny account of comedian Ellie Taylor's journey from being a single woman to meeting her now-husband, pondering motherhood, trying to get pregnant, being pregnant, having her baby and then navigating the trials of newborn life and figuring out her new place in the world. This joke is one of those where you might need to hear it a few times to really get it, but once you do, it gives you that warm feeling from #12 with even more of an impact since you had to work for it. Again, mention of food could affect the in-game feelings towards the delivery but that gets cancelled out by some additional context from later in the game. Ellie mentions during the University of Eastern Colorado section, that she would have wanted to be an astronaut if she had the chance. So anything to do with space probably is really cool to her and that paired with her love of lame jokes and puns, makes up for any additional hunger this may have caused.

And her voice was so clear throughout the book, never getting lost to ‘I am writing a book I must sound formal and knowledgeable’. It was authentic.

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Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for my advanced copy of this book in exchange for a review. This joke, delivered by Sam in the suburbs section of the season doesn’t qualify for the official ranking but I still needed to mention it. I think it can hold its ground with some of the mid-tier jokes Ellie tells during the game but is definitely beat out by some of the heavier hitters. It’s more of a clever phrase than fun word play which does hinder it a little bit, but not enough to completely ignore it. Good job Sam, now let’s get onto the countdown! I guess an important preface is that I am an Ellie Taylor fan, and not just a fan but often accidentally the same person. Thinking and speaking in such similar cadence made this such a perfect read, everything made so much sense in my brain because it was explained just as I too would explain it. As well as personal stories, both emotional and funny, Ellie supplements these chapters of her life with data and facts about parenthood that were so eye opening. For example the realities of maternity and paternity pay, or the racial disparities across birth fatalities. Of all the word play on this list, this one feels almost too direct and the punchline doesn’t get the payoff from Joel or the audience that some of the others higher up do. But maybe that’s the appeal of it, the fact that it is so lame that it’s actually amazing. However that feeling is something we’ll be seeing a lot more of as we progress and this joke doesn’t do it as well as some of the knee-slappers near the top of this list.

She revealed in an interview with Lorraine Kelly shortly afterwards that her daughter was ‘annoyed’ she had been booted off the show as she got ‘really into it.’ I felt so honoured to hear such personal, vulnerable details. It was a real privilege to be brought into those feelings. Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Ellie Taylor worth at the age of 39 years old? Ellie Taylor’s income source is mostly from being a successful Presenter. She is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Ben Cohen and former Strictly dancer Kristina Rihanoff met in series 11 and now share a six-year-old daughter, Milena. She has a lot of opinions and she is quite annoyed I won’t win. Not sad, but because she wanted the Glitterball.’What Taylor does in her coming of age memoir is show you the reality of this in a funny way. She doesn’t sugarcoat the harder times or the times that make her look just a little unhinged. It all adds to the wonderful colour of this story. Her thoughts on motherhood are especially honest and she lays bare how hard it is but also how rewarding she has found it. On top of all of this success, Ellie also hosted the first episode of the 14th series of Live At The Apollo in 2018, which she cites as one of her career highlights, and became a household name as part of satirical comedy series The Mash Report. Clips of her delivering tongue-in-cheek headlines as newsreader Susan Treharne have since been shared and seen by millions across the world. These final two jokes are both absolute knee-slappers but for completely different reasons. With this one, it’s a classic and simple bit of word play but it’s done to perfection. The use of “my-shelf” in place of myself rolls off the tongue and even the person telling the joke gets to have a bit of fun saying the line since it’s such a smooth change. It’s simplistic yet effective at what it’s trying to do, make an incredibly stressful and hostile environment a little bit better. I enjoyed this book (on audiobook, narrated by Ellie herself) but it didn’t blow me away. Parts were relatable and parts were funny but on the whole I found it a bit wannabe worthy. Stand-up comic, broadcaster and actress Ellie Taylor is relatable, clever and interested in how women can have it all. Her honest, hilarious and moving account of the whys and hows of having a baby makes perfect reading for expectant mothers and fathers everywhere, as well as those who've been there, done that, and wonder how on earth they did.