Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Natural Born Keller by Amanda Keller




I felt after reading this book exactly the same as I did after reading Bonkers by Jennifer Saunders. Underwhelmed. So you’ve had a nice suburban life and then you grew up to be funny and pleasant. Some bumps along the way, nothing catastrophic. Some solid achievements in a male dominated field. You are human and I like you. The only point at which I was filled with the “bed shaking” laughter promised to me by my heroes Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb was Amanda’s dry recall that her husband’s porn name- the combination of your first pet and first street- was Carol Eastcote. I laughed and laughed and laughed at that.

In searching for a link to Jennifer Saunders’ autobiography I also discovered that there was an unauthorised biography written the same year. ~OooooOOOOOOohhhhh~. I’m sad that it’s not salacious, otherwise I would read that too. In the end she said it was “surprisingly kind and nice about me”. Boo.

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