Jason Manford Brung Up Proper

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Jason Manford is firmly established as one of the country's favourite st&-ups & is up there with the best northern comedy legends. His career began one night in a pub in Chorlton when a comedian didn't arrive for his set & Jason, the 17-year-old glass collector stepped in to fill the gap. From that point on he's never looked back, until now that is... This is the story in his own words of everything that lead up to that fateful moment
- a colourful tale of growing up with lots of family & not enough money, of getting by & sticking together. It is a story of his shameless extended clan of wayward uncles & singing nans & a gobby little knobhead at the heart of it all called Jason. Featuring rock-hard great granddads, doting grandparents, pub-crooning nanas, football-mad dads, pet-obsessed mums, more dodgy uncles than you can shake a stick at, failed exams, dead-end jobs, paper rounds, prostitutes, shocked priests, manslaughter, winning goals, sudden losses, replica shirts, chip-fat incidents, scary pubs, pet meat, fighting Gandhis, cancelled Christmases, Sir Oswald Mosley, flooded tents, call centres, circumcision, puppy love, friends for life, difficult girlfriends, gigs from hell, heart break &, finally, true love... With his laugh-out-loud tales of coming of age, Jason shows he's a generous storyteller & as natural an observer on the page as he is on stage.