The Teenage Diaries of a Stand-Up Comedian: One man's journey into his embarrassing past

'Put very simply, the details of my life could be boiled down to "boy dreams of being a comedian and then becomes one", so in a basic sense everything has gone according to plan.Item number one on the lifetime to-do list has been well and truly ticked off. 'But, of course, things are never that simple, because nobody becomes a comic without some degree of "character building" along the way...'When Jon Richardson unearthed his teenage diaries among a stash of 1990s mementoes, he hesitated before opening them.What possible value could there be in revisiting the awkward, unfiltered thoughts of a 14-year-old boy, especially now, in his forties and a successful comedian, actor and father?As it turns out, quite a lot. In this candid memoir, Jon reconnects with his younger self - a boy growing up in an era when Oasis dominated the charts and Baywatch dominated his imagination.From embarrassing teenage misadventures, including a mortifying PE lesson involving a climbing rope, to small but sign