Book description
Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities and
eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread,
everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of
nostalgia that never fails to grab his audience's shared
understanding, have earned him comparisons with Alan Bennett and
Ronnie Barker.
In his award winning TV series' he creates worlds populated by
degenerate, bitter, useless, endearing and always recognisable
characters which have attracted a huge and loyal following.
In many ways he's an old fashioned kind of comedian and the scope
and enormity of his fanbase reflects this. He doesn't tell jokes about
politics or sex, but rather rejoices in the far funnier areas of life:
elderly relatives and answering machines, dads dancing badly at
weddings, garlic bread and cheesecake, your mum's HRT...
His autobiography is full of this kind of humour and nostalgia,
beginning with Kay's first ever driving lesson, taking him back
through his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held after school
and leading up until the time he passed his driving test and found fame.
Peter Kay was born in Bolton in 1973. After leaving school with a
GCSE in art, he held a series of jobs including working as a cinema
usher, mobile disc jockey, in a factory packing toilet rolls, garage
attendant and in a bingo hall.
After a Btec in Performance Studies, he went on to win the 1997 So
You Think You're Funny contest at the Edinburgh Festival and was
nominated for the Perrier Award the following year.
Peter Kay's first TV series was That Peter Kay Thing,
followed by Phoenix Nights series 1 snd 2. The series Max
and Paddy's Road to Nowhere was a spin off from Phoenix
Nights. Peter Kay has played a cameo role in Coronation
Street, has appeared in the recent series of Doctor Who and
recently starred as Roger DeBris in the smash hit Mel Brooks musical
The Producers in Manchester.
