Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

Very Jimmy Carr - full of cliches, dad jokes, trite quotations. Lacks depth. But still amusing and engaging and obviously created with someone with a lot of skill for engaging his audience. I read it all in one go.

I have mixed feelings towards this book. On one hand I didn't have big expectations for it, and it still delivered some genuinely funny bits and good advices, so I could even say it exceeded what I was hoping for. 

But on the other hand, it took me a while to finish and I found myself constantly avoiding it. The heart doesn't lie at the end of the day, so I'd say this was a pretty average book that made me laugh but was tedious at times.

Like many others I was taken by surprise with this. For the first couple of chapters I thought it was very disjointed and then reaised that it is not actually a memoir as I had presumed. I found the middle chapters thought provoking but my interest waned again before the end as the advice was directed towards anybody planning to go into standup, which I am not. Although I would have loved a few more of his anecdotes I do feel I know Jimmy Carr a lot better than I did which is, I think, what he intended.