PETER KAY - THE SOUND OF LAUGHTER (Sound of Laughter - Peter Kay)

Member Name: tuttgarm

Product:	Sound of Laughter - Peter Kay
Date:	14/07/09 (35 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good stories about jobs

Disadvantages: Too many puns

Peter Kay's autiobiography titled The Sound of Laughter is a hillarious insight into the life of Bolton's finest comedian before he was famous.

The book details Kay's childhood with a big section on his schooling with Nuns. Kay first got the tast for acting by starring in the school play as the lion in The Wizard of Oz and improvising his lines which is particularly funny.

All Kay's jobs are listed including being a shelf stacker at his local supermarket. A funny story centres around the supermarket being robbed with Kay being told to "get down", with Kay responding, "you mean dance".

His time as a usher at the cinema is funny particularly the amount of things he was able to get away with. The banter he has with his schoolfriends also brings some humourous tales.

Kay writes about his first stand up routine where he entered a competition featuring Johnny Vegas. Deciding that his routine was rubbish Kay improvised and dazzled the crowd with his wit.

During the autiobiography characters emerge to which Kay says he got his ideas from for his sitcoms like Brian Potter ands Max and Paddy. Kay talks about the television shows he watches, which is a good indication of the influences for his own shows.

Kay's writing is humourous, as is expected. Through his writing you can tell the amount of love he has for his family, even leaving uni after just one day because he was homesick.

Nonetheless, the autiobiography suffers from a lack of writing about his modern day success with his stand ups and sitcoms, though maybe he'll write that in the future. There were also way too many puns in the book, some were funny, but it got too tedious after a while. The book like his comedy is very northern and that can be tedious as well since Kay thinks anything outside of Bolton is abroad.

At well over 250 pages and through many short chapters this book is a good, humourous read and a must for any Peter Kay fans!

Summary: The sound of laughter heard while reading!