Over the course of the last ten years Frank Skinner has toured sell-out st&-up shows hosted countless TV shows & an award-winning radio programme written two well-received volumes of memoir as well as recording a couple of pop songs & learning to play the ukulele. He has been a busy man. Yet for the last two years he has also managed to squeeze in a weekly column for The Times". Without fail he sat down every week & wracked his brain to think of something to write 900 words about. " Dispatches From the Sofa" is the brilliant result. Alighting on such random topics as the potential demise of Margaret Thatcher the love-hate relationship with your football club Mike Reads musical of Oscar Wilde fat pop stars Serbian breakfast banter the pleasures of air-guitar the banking crisis & the evil phenomenon of Jedward this is a thought-provoking wide-reaching hilarious & self-deprecating collection
- which also
Includes:: the first two chapters from his unpublished novel
- from one of our funniest quickest & most beloved comedians."