Brung Up Proper
by Jason Manford /
2011 / English / PDF
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Jason Manford is firmly established as one of the country's
favourite stand-ups and 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 and 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 and not enough money, of
getting by and sticking together. It is a story of his shameless
extended clan of wayward uncles and singing nans and 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 and, finally,
true love...With his laugh-out-loud tales of coming of age, Jason
shows he's a generous storyteller and as natural an observer on the
page as he is on stage.
Jason Manford is firmly established as one of the country's
favourite stand-ups and 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 and 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 and not enough money, of
getting by and sticking together. It is a story of his shameless
extended clan of wayward uncles and singing nans and 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 and, finally,
true love...With his laugh-out-loud tales of coming of age, Jason
shows he's a generous storyteller and as natural an observer on the
page as he is on stage.