Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities & eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread, everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of nostalgia that never fails to grab his audience's shared understanding, have earned him comparisons with Alan Bennett & Ronnie Barker.
In his award winning TV series' he creates worlds populated by degenerate, bitter, useless, endearing & always recognisable characters which have attracted a huge & loyal following.
In many ways he's an old fashioned kind of comedian & the scope & enormity of his fanbase reflects this. He doesn't tell jokes about politics or sex, but rather rejoices in the far funnier areas of life: elderly relatives & answering machines, dads dancing badly at weddings, garlic bread & cheesecake, your mum's HRT...
His autobiography is full of this kind of humour & nostalgia, beginning with Kay's first ever driving lesson, taking him back through his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held after school & leading up until the time he passed his driving test & found fame.