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Watching Neighbours Twice a Day by Josh Widdicombe - Signed Edition
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Watching Neighbours Twice a Day by Josh Widdicombe - Signed Edition
Hand Signed by Josh Widdicombe to a Signature Page
Hardback 1st Edition
New & Unread
This is a book about growing up in the '90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched. For my generation television was the one thing that united everyone. There were kids at my school who liked bands, kids who liked football and one weird kid who liked the French sport of petanque, however, we all loved Gladiators, Neighbours and Pebble Mill with Alan Titchmarsh (possibly not the third of these).
In his first memoir, Josh Widdicombe tells the story of a strange rural childhood, the kind of childhood he only realised was weird when he left home and started telling people about it. From only having four people in his year at school, to living in a family home where they didn't just not bother to lock the front door, they didn't even have a key. Using a different television show of the time as its starting point for each chapter Watching Neighbours Twice a Day... is part-childhood memoir, part-comic history of '90s television and culture. It will discuss everything from the BBC convincing him that Michael Parkinson had been possessed by a ghost, to Josh's belief that Mr Blobby is one of the great comic characters, to what it's like being the only vegetarian child west of Bristol.
It tells the story of the end of an era, the last time when watching television was a shared experience for the family and the nation, before the internet meant everyone watched different things at different times on different devices, headphones on to make absolutely sure no one else could watch it with them.
About the Author: Best known for sixteen-series of the multi award-winning Channel 4 series The Last Leg, Josh has had an incredible rise in the decade he has been performing stand up with multiple appearances on QI, Live At Apollo, A League Of Their Own, Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You, Taskmaster to name but a few. This year he launched his brand-new hit Dave show Hypothetical which he hosts with James Acaster and created with his comedy pals Tom Craine and Matthew Crosby as well as being a huge hit on Sky One’s A League Of Their Own Rally.
Josh is also host of cult 90s podcast Quickly Kevin: Will He Score? which has seen them sell out multiple live shows including two nights a Hackney Empire last year.
This year sees him return to the road for the first time in a few years with his brand new stand-up show Bit Much…
Format: Hardback Edition
ISBN: 9781788705196
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