Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

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It has definitely gave me the confidence to go up and speak to him if I ever see him walking about town. It's about being strange in a normal, subclinical* way: intrusive thoughts, groundless anxiety, reduced affect display, auditory hallucination, mild paranoia, misanthropy, hysteroid dysphoria.

Essentially Limmy’s a compulsive wind-up merchant and he freely admits that he’ll say or do something awful just to cause a stir if he’s bored. We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. I think that sort of thing can make you mental, depending on how severe it is and what kind of environment you're in. What was clear was that he's a lovely, compassionate man, and while I can't know how the past few years have planned out for him, I hope he's found some peace with himself, and with the family he so clearly loves. Of course, he has boundaries when it comes to private information and anything in connection with his family, but when it comes to his personality or thoughts, he is as forthcoming as it gets.Whether it's talking about an 'evil presence' or how he just knew that he 'had' to end his life at certain points and how he snapped out of it, it's a very stark and humbling read or listen at times. All told with his signature crass silliness, Limmy nonetheless hides nothing about his lifelong battles, inviting you into several unbelievable anecdotes and genuinely poignant passages challenging his past behaviour right up to the present moment. On one hand a fun book about Limmy's life and career to date, it's like he's chatting his life story; on the other hand an honest book about mental health, addiction, and overcoming the darkest thoughts. Just knowing other people have gone through something similar or think in a similar way, that helps.

Maybe middle-class people as strange as them direct it inward, rather than outward as comedy or violence.Following the death of nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow, his tweet was mistakenly reported as a genuine tribute by Sky News. When he dies, the title of his autobiography will both harken back to this absurd joke of his while genuinely being true of him. I think this might be the most enjoyable book I’ve read so far this year and all I wanted to do was sit and carry on reading it until there was no more of it left to read.

It’s a compelling experience, though, and one which could be appreciated by existing fans and non-believers alike.I think I’m all right, but you just don’t know when the day is coming that you get cancelled,” he says, “it’s coming for all of us. There was no talk of a counsellor to know whether I was in the right frame of mind to take these things. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble.