Micky Flanagan - Funny Geezer

Abi Smith

• Publisher: John Blake
• eBook ISBN:
  9781784181918
• Year: 2014

Micky Flanagan is one of Britain's best-loved cheeky-chappy comedians, thanks to his stand-up routines about how he's gone from growing up in London's East End in the 1970s to his life now in middle-class suburbia.
To date he has two sell-out tours under his belt, nominationsfrom the British Comedy Awards and the Edinburgh Fringe (for Best Comedy Newcomer), not to mention regular stints on 8 Out of 10 Cats, Mock the Week and The Last Leg, as well as guest appearances on The Jonathan Ross Show, Alan Carr: Chatty Man, The Graham Norton Show and The One Show. Yet a career as a professional comedian was not something that he had ever dreamed of when, as a troublesome teen, he left school aged 15 to work in a fish market.
Abi Smith looks at how Micky, who was laughed at by his teachers when he said he wanted to be a vet, has triumphed from his early days working as a fish porter in the East End and as a dishwasher in New York. In this page-turning biography you'll also discover why his mum labelled him a drama queen, and how he tried his hand at various professions - including trainee teacher and painter and decorator - before having the last laugh by becoming one of the country's most popular funny men.
So, pour yourself a cup of Rosie Lee, take the weight off your plates and prepare for a right giraffe as you read this engaging tale of 'an East Boy done good'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• SOURCES
• PROLOGUE
• Chapter 1: EAST END WAY OF LIFE
• Chapter 2: SCHOOL STORIES AND FISH TALES
• Chapter 3: THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
• Chapter 4: KNOCK, KNOCK. WHO’S THERE? MICKY. MICKY WHO?
• Chapter 5: MEET THE TROUBLE AND STRIFE
• Chapter 6: A BOTTLE OF RED SAUCE, PLEASE
• Chapter 7: TIME TO GO OUT, OUT
• Chapter 8: LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
• Chapter 9: TOUR DE FORCE
• Chapter 10: ROYALS AND RECOGNITION
• Chapter 11: MASTER(MIND) OF COMEDY
• Chapter 12: PERFORMANCES, PUBLICITY AND ‘PLAGIARISM’
• Chapter 13: HE’S GOT THE X FACTOR
• Chapter 14: HITTING THE TOP OF THE CHARTS
• Chapter 15: A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN
• Chapter 16: MASTER(CHEF) AT FIFTY
• Chapter 17: PROUD PORK PIE THIEF
• Chapter 18: BACK IN THE GAME
• Chapter 19: AND THE WINNER IS…
• Plates
• Copyright