The Teenage Diaries of a Stand-Up Comedian
One man's journey into his embarrassing past
$33.29
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
26 October 2026
Summary
“Put very simply, the details of my life could be boiled down to “boy dreams of being a comedian and then becomes one”, so in a basic sense everything has gone according to plan. Item number one on the lifetime to-do list has been well and truly ticked off.
But, of course, things are never that simple, because nobody becomes a comic without some degree of “character building” along the way…
When Jon Richardson unearthed his teenage diaries among a stash of 1990s mementoes, he …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408724248 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408724243 |
| Author: | Jon Richardson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 26 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Jon Richardson
Jon Richardson is one of the nation’s most-loved and accomplished comedians. Beyond his stand-up, Jon is best known as team captain on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Most recently you may have seen him fronting Our Yorkshire Pub Rescue with Jon Richardson. He came second on Series 2 of Taskmaster and makes regular appearances on Have I Got News For You, The Last Leg & Would I Lie to You?
Jon hosts The Jon Richardson Show on Absolute Radio every Saturday morning and played series regular Darius Donovan in back-to-back series of the BBC hit drama, Waterloo Road. His last stand-up tour, The Knitwit, played to a whopping 150,000 people across the UK and Ireland.
A co-host on podcasts Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts and Down the Dog with Matt Forde, he is also the author of It’s Not Me, It’s You, published in 2011.
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