Yardsticks For Failure
Adventures in Friendship and Fluster: the hilarious debut from the Taskmaster Season 15 contestant
$24.33
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2026
Summary
‘A hilarious and original voice’ Josh Widdicombe
‘Delightfully smart and impossibly charming’ Dolly Alderton
‘His writing is as unpredictable and brilliant as he is’ Sophie Duker
‘I’ve got nothing but love for Mr Ivo Graham’ Frankie Boyle
Yardsticks For Failure is the story of the most frantic two years of Ivo Graham’s already quite frantic life, 2022-2024, two years of tasks and tears and everything in between.
The amount of stuff Ivo packs into these …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035411313 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035411318 |
| Author: | Ivo Graham |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Book Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 223g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Ivo Graham
Despite extensive grooming for more serious careers at Eton and Oxford, Ivo Graham has spent his entire adult life on the stand-up circuit. He won So You Think You’re Funny? at aged 18 in 2009 and has since established himself as, if not the UK’s poshest, then certainly its most apologetically posh comedian.
His 2019 show The Game of Life received nominations for Best Show and Best Joke at the Edinburgh Fringe. He’s appeared on TV comedies including Have I Got News for You, QI, The Last Leg, Mock the Week, and Live at the Apollo. He has been quizzed, with varying degrees of success, on Pointless, House of Games and University Challenge. He also toured the country with Fern Brady and Darren Harriott for Dave’s six-part travelogue British as Folk.
He has earned his parents’ respect with appearances on Radio 4’s The Now Show, The News Quiz, Just a Minute, and the drama Unite. He has also shoehorned Swindon Town references into many an episode of 5 Live’s Fighting Talk and BT Sport’s The Football’s On.
In 2023, Ivo appeared as a contestant on the fifteenth series of Channel 4’s Taskmaster. Fans of his chaotic energy on that show can see it live, first on the concluding leg of his My Future, My Clutter tour. Before August sees Ivo travel to Edinburgh and then nationwide with his new show, Organised Fun.
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