Observational Comedy
March 14th, 2009Peter Kay is to release a follow-up to his bestselling memoirs The Sound Of Laughter this autumn.
What?
His existing book, which I have not read, is 368 pages long in paperback and was released on the 2nd of October 2006. The new one will be out in time for Christmas. That means that the book can detail, at most, 1179 days (assuming the books take an equal amount of time between writing and release). On average, there will be about 3.23 days per page (or, 31% of a page per day). That’s only slightly less than my work diary and I can never fill that. This book is going to read like a Twitter feed, especially when you bear in mind how much of that time must have been spent writing the damn book.
I’m sorry, but has enough genuinely interesting stuff happened to him in the last two years to fill that much book? I submit that it hasn’t. In fact, I confidently predict that Peter Kay’s second book is going to be basically all the same material as his first book, but with a couple of words changed here and there to make it sound like a whole new work.
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March 14th, 2009 at 19:57
Is the new one called ‘The Sound of My Accountant’s Laugher’?
March 15th, 2009 at 09:23
How do YOU know how much “genuinely interesting stuff” has happened to Peter Kay over the past two years? As you haven`t even read his first book, I think your comments are absolutely outrageous!!!
March 15th, 2009 at 11:32
PS Sorry about the “serial commenting”, but I always thought that`s what blogs were for!! And as for where I get the time, that`s MY business!!!
March 15th, 2009 at 13:26
I don’t mind serial commenting at all — it just amused me that the day after I got loads of comments from the same person in one afternoon another blog commented on the same thing from the same person.
March 15th, 2009 at 22:37
Furthermore, I put it to you that if interesting things were happening to Peter Kay then he would talk about them in his stand-up routine instead of mocking people for providing exact change.
Sorry, must stop ranting. Certainly must resist the temptation to describe Kay as ‘the man who puts the “routine” into “stand-up comedy routine”‘.
September 24th, 2009 at 07:50
The spambots have learned to obey simple English instructions! Run for the hills!
September 24th, 2009 at 11:06
No, they haven’t. They’re doing trackbacks. I have no way of knowing how many genuine spam COMMENTS I’m stopping but I bet it’s loads.