Frank Skinner's adventures on tour are by turns funny and moving as he meditates on growing older, the terrors and joys of trying to make a live audience laugh night after night and on the nature of comedy itself. This work describes his experience of going back on the road and doing stand-up again, after many years spent working on television.

Winner of the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival, Frank Skinner's humour is a mixture of laddishness and philosophy. This is the story of the highs and lows of his life and career. He tells how he inherited his father's passion for football, as well as his passion for alcohol.

The astonishing, frank and moving autobiography of The Prince of F***ing Darkness

The astonishing, frank and moving autobiography of The Prince of F***ing Darkness

A memoir of the author that describes his experience of going back on the road doing stand-up again, after many years spent working mainly on television. It discusses how his act is put together and his return to a world of dark little clubs and the strange encounters he has there.

Frank Skinner is one of the funniest and successful comedians appearing on British screens. Born Chris Collins in 1957 he grew up in the West Midlands. Expelled from school at 16, Frank held various jobs later going on to gain an MA in English Literature. Here, he tells us of the highs and lows of his life and career.

Stand-up comic and cult TV series star Frank Skinner' s hilarious first novel combines wild fantasy with sudden bumps down to earth, in his unique style of outrageous sex comedy.

The hilarious sequel to the bestselling autobiography Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner