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It's a collection of funny anecdotes, a nice light-hearted read that you'll love if you enjoy the podcast! I want to be able to enjoy the two children I have growing up and even at the moment, I feel overstretched.
Really good as an audiobook too cos there’s extra little bits of them pissing around which makes it even better.I realise that this show is me complaining a lot,” says Josh Widdicombe, “but that is what my job is. JW: I remember at one point panicking, wondering if my daughter would hate me for it, but then I realised that the whole thing is really positive. One of Lou's tongue-in-cheek irritations is that the kids find Beckett really fun to be with, she quips in the book, and says that at times he is deeply annoying.
He is best known for his appearances on The Last Leg (2012–present), Fighting Talk (2014–2016), Insert Name Here (2016–2019), Mock the Week (2012–2016) and his BBC Three sitcom Josh (2015–2017). Theirs – Lockdown Parenting Hell – has become one of the most popular in the country, mining the stresses of everything from twins, tantrums and building a trampoline to the tune of more than 15m downloads. However, by listening to the audio it felt like you were listening to the podcast and It made the whole thing more enjoyable and I would highly recommend. Pre-2012, Brooker was a PA Media sports journalist who applied to a Channel 4 advert seeking new disabled talent.Neither wants more children at this stage, but then Widdicombe's son and daughter are a bit younger.
RB: I didn’t realise, and I don’t think Lou [Beckett’s wife since 2015] even realised, how much she was doing on her own. it's autobiographical, but mainly full of the most niche but relatable flashbacks to 90s tv and pop culture.
I felt a bit silly when I realised that Widdicombe is British (I’d assumed Australian, given the title, clearly forgetting that the Brits love Neighbours more than we do), which caused some relatability problems.
Widdicombe’s distant great-grandmother was the king’s illegitimate daughter with Anne Boleyn’s sister, Mary. But the unflickering expression – part sternly disapproving, part stupefied at the world’s illogic – is part of the joke, too. Beckett seems to have a frantic schedule hosting the TV series Unbreakable, fronting his own BBC Radio 2 show on Sundays, plus this podcast twice a week – and the pair are embarking on a Parenting Hell Live tour next year. He is perhaps best known for co-presenting the satirical news show The Last Leg and for his appearances on Mock the Week. I didnt realise they had a podcast on this so defo gonna add that to my list of podcasts to listen to and probs only get around to in 5 years time haha.
And it limits him: there are points in his touring show Bit Much when the peevishness feels mechanical, more affectation than authentic. I loved reading the references to things I had entirely forgotten about (You Bet, the theme tune to Big Break, the Martins in Neighbours). This comes from someone who is not necessarily a super mega fan of Josh Widdicombe, just someone with a normal level of fandom. including Blobbyland, which takes far more of a prominent position in my childhood than you'd think).
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