Best/funniest memoirs you’ve ever read?

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Jarvis Cocker’s autobiography, Good Pop, Bad Pop, is really good. Not funny, but whimsical and self-mocking.

Adam Kay’s This Is Going To Hurt made me laugh and cry a lot.

Kenneth Williams wrote some scandalous memoirs, but I recommend listening to those - narrated by himself.

Gerald Durrell’s books are rather lovely. Better than the TV series.

Billy by Pamela Anderson.

Rupert Everett's autobiography is excellent.

Peter Ustinov and Alan Coren. Number 1 is William Shatner. Belly laughs all the way through.

Billy Connolly's books. I'm really looking forward to his newest one 'Rambling Man: My Life On The Road'.

Haven't read it yet but Adrian Edmondson has just written his and it sounds brilliant, he was on the radio the other day. He had a truly horrible childhood so it's not all laughs but the sample anecdote about a crap dinner at Mick Jaggers' house was bloody hilarious.

I've asked for Johannes's biography for Christmas. Should be a good read

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson. Genuinely had to stop reading it on public transport as kept collapsing in hysterical laughter 😁

David Niven - The Moon's a Balloon and Bring On The Empty Horses. Also second the Bill Bryson.

You can’t beat Elton John for brilliant stories - I think it was Me, Me, Me that had me laughing on the first page

Thank you, lots here re: stocking fillers plus!

Bob Mortimer autobiography is excellent

I don't think she wrote that one but it would have been an interesting read if she did

Bossypants (Tina Fey) - I think I listened to the audiobook which is her reading it.

This Is Not A Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan
I found it such a brave and comforting read. By the writer who wrote the TV drama, The Split