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  • Jokes, Jokes, Jokes

  • My Very Funny Memoir
  • By: Jenny Eclair
  • Narrated by: Jenny Eclair
  • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (101 ratings)

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Jokes, Jokes, Jokes

By: Jenny Eclair
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Summary

'As hilarious and outrageous as you might expect' Rosie Ramsey

'Funny. Poignant. Fascinating. Just the sort of hilarious, disrespectful, ribald book I love to get stuck into' Jo Brand

How did little Jenny Hargreaves become Jenny Eclair and elbow her way into the male dominated world of 1980s stand-up?

Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy's wife?) sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper), Jenny's comedy career took off via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery, waitressing and not really having a clue about anything.

This was a world before microphones, mobile phones, before everyone gave up smoking or started taking coke. Jenny Eclair was on the comedy circuit before there really was a comedy circuit and was the first woman to win the Perrier Award along the way.

Still gigging to sell-out crowds forty years later, Jenny Eclair's memoir charts her childhood, her career and the changing face of women in comedy, all told with hilarious brilliance in Jokes, Jokes, Jokes, her very funny memoir.

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Great book

I good listen. Highly recommended. Jenny reading her book is a bonus. Thanks for writing this book!

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Lived up to its title

Both really funny and genuinely touching in places. Some real laugh out loud moments during this trip down memory lane with in the world of comedy.

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Honest and poignant

Really enjoyed this read by Jenny. She doesn’t hold back and this gripped me from start to finish. Thoroughly recommend

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Frank, funny & honest!

I binged this in two days. Really enjoyed it! As expected, it was frank, funny & honest! I'll be listening again for sure!

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Honest, moving and hilarious

Loved all of it. Scampered through it as I was enjoying it so much. What a life you’ve had Jenny! Thank you for sharing it with us and entertaining us at your shows. Looking forward to the London show in March!

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Beautifully written and read

Big fan of Jenny's books and comedy. Really enjoyed listening to her life story. Thank you so much Jenny.

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Jokes Jokes Jokes...and much more

Brilliantly narrated - it almost feels conversational, there's a warmth to the narration which may come as a surprise if your only exposure to Jenny Eclair is as a comedic persona.

There are fascinating insights into the comedy world, some frank admissions about motherhood and, as promised, a lot of laughs.

Highly recommend.

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Brilliant

Honest, funny...being a similar age there were lots of things I could identify with. So interesting to have an insight in to Jenny's life. I loved it.

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Absolutely brilliant memoir read perfectly by Jenny herself. Laugh out loud funny honest and brave.

Thoroughly enjoyed reading this, you won’t want to stop. Details her life all the way from babyhood to present day. Searingly honest and self deprecating the exploits she got herself into are many and varied and she doesn’t shy away from telling us it all. Brilliant book by one of our national treasures.

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Honest and throughly entertaining.

Very honest memoir as you would expect from Jenny. She describes herself warts and all which is very rare these days. Her description of family life in the 60's and 70's, brought back fond memories of my own childhood and her love for her parents shines through, without the gushing sentimentality so prevalent today.

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