Book: Only When I Laugh
With typical humorous aplomb, the deadpan comedian, writer and improvisation ace takes us back to his working-class Fulham childhood through to his first steps in stand-up comedy and wider career in improvisation and TV stardom in Have I Got News For You, Room 101 and Just A Minute.
This autobiography is peppered with hilarious and revealing anecdotes about Paul ‘Martin’s’ early days at The Comedy Store and comic influences who included Alexei Sayle, as well as the friendships he formed with others on the circuit like Julian Clary, Josie Lawrence and Tony Hawks. He also manages to see the funny side of what must have been a hellish six-week stay in Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital following a manic episode when his career was on the rise.
