- Published: 21 September 2017
- ISBN: 9781473547780
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 3 hr 12 min
- Narrator: Simon Amstell
- RRP: $38.00
Help
- Published: 21 September 2017
- ISBN: 9781473547780
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 3 hr 12 min
- Narrator: Simon Amstell
- RRP: $38.00
No one makes loneliness and anxiety as funny as Simon Amstell. Every sentence in this book is simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious
Hadley Freeman
Disarmingly, almost alarmingly, honest. I laughed out loud 57 times
Martin Freeman
A beautiful and clever book about being human. All the warmth of his comedy without the inconvenience of his face
Russell Brand
Enrapturing. Touching, funny and sweet
Alain de Botton
Puts the fun in 'insanely honest introspection fun'
Adam Buxton
Amstell is a likable, self-deprecating guide to his own flaws, and has spent enough time in therapy to dissect his own navel-gazing with a nicely dry self-awareness
Stephanie Merritt, Observer
Hilarious and heart-breaking… Simon’s unique take on the world is a reminder of the absurdity of life and the humour that can be found even in its darkest moments. Genuinely life-affirming, moving and profoundly funny
Attitude
Compulsively, excruciatingly honest… An heroically spiky, self-excavating read about family, fame, sex and self-discovery
Alice Jones
This book blends some of the best moments from his tours to date with some eye-wateringly honest anecdotes from his life so far
Adam Ouxbury, Wing Magazine
It’s inevitable that Simon Amstell’s memoir doesn’t fit the usual mould… In Help..., he cranks up the honesty: alongside excerpts of scripts from his shows, he relates the source material, often in almost painful depth. Depression, an unhappy childhood, family rifts – all feature in what Amstell, typically acerbic, describes as a "heroic act of self-annihiliation"
Hannah Shaddock, Radio Times
Amstell is evocative and wittily self-aware about his upbringing as a painfully shy, socially awkward boy in Romford… Amstell’s writing often contains profundity alongside morsels of pithy wit
Steve Bennett, Chortle
Stand-up transcripts interspersed with touching personal confessions – love, sexuality, self-discovery – in his trademark sardonic style
Sarah Flynn, Irish Times
Amstell is one of the UK’s best stand-ups and this beautifully written memoir… Is a gem. It is brutally, excruciatingly honest about his dysfunctional family, his sexual awakening, his comedy career and his struggles with anxiety. It is also laugh-out-loud-on-public-transport funny.
Alice Jones
Hard to imagine anyone not loving this... go Simon Amstell!
Stephen Fry
A brilliantly funny, sad, clever, silly book. I loved it!
Matt Lucas
Help provides a fascinating insight into Amstell’s life… a unique discussion on the role and purpose of comedy in our society as a means to protect ourselves and others, but also as means to reveal our most vulnerable states
Thomas Bransby, BJGP
A brilliantly funny, sad, clever, silly book. I loved it!
Matt Lucas