A Comedian's Prayer Book

A Comedian's Prayer Book
Frank Skinner
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h178 x 111mm - 112pg
22 Dec 2022 UK
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9781529368963
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A Comedian' s Prayer Book. The title is a worry, isn' t it? . . . God is a tough audience as far as audible response is concerned, but at least you don' t have to explain the references. In this collection of prayers, much-loved comedian, broadcaster and radio host Frank Skinner has tried to retain the bare candour of the rehearsal-room improvisation - to show what faith feels like, from the inside - but infused it with all the production values required to make it a passable public entertainment. In it are his convictions, his questions, his fears, his doubts, his elations - all presented in an eavesdropper-friendly form. Hell, Judgement, atheism, money, faith and the X-Men all feature: it' s a bit like reading the Bible, except you only get one side of the conversation, and all the jokes are left in.
He takes laying bare your soul to a level I' ve never come across before by a well-known name. * The Tablet *
Frank Skinner' s live career began in 1987 when he spent 400 of his last 435 booking a room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Four years later in 1991 he returned to the city and took home comedy' s most prestigious prize, The Perrier Award. Frank created The Frank Skinner Show (ITV), which is widely credited as setting the tone for the modern comedic chat show. With David Baddiel, he created and presented both Fantasy Football and Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned, and, alongside The Lightning Seeds, the pair also wrote the seminal football anthem Three Lions. More recently, Frank created and hosted three series of Frank Skinner' s Opinionated for BBC2, hosted seven series of BBC1' s Room 101 and seven series of Portrait/Landscape Artist of the Year for Sky Arts. He has presented documentaries covering passions including Muhammad Ali (BBC1), Elvis (BBC4) and investigating the life of George Formby (BBC4). His Absolute Radio show has won three gold awards for Best Speech Programme (2011 and 2014) and Best Entertainment/Comedy Production (2017) at the ARIAs and saw him inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame in December 2015. For BBC Radio 4, Frank hosted comedy panel show The Rest is History, and wrote and starred in comedy drama series Don' t Start alongside Katherine Parkinson. As an author, Frank has published Dispatches from the Sofa; a collection of columns he wrote for The Times and has written two autobiographies, the first of which, Frank Skinner, was the top selling autobiography of 2002, spending 46 weeks in The Sunday Times Bestseller List. His latest stand-up show, Showbiz, has enjoyed a sold out national tour and subsequent sold out residency at the West End' s Garrick Theatre.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529368963
Published: 22 Dec 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder Faith
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 111mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 112

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