Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
This was not as funny as the first volume of Jo's autobiography , but was still an enjoyable read, this is all about her efforts to be a stand up comic and some of the clubs she has played at good and very bad ! You have to have a thick skin to be an actress or comic it is not a career for the faint hearted. I love Jo's down to earth views on everything, especially the way she really doesnt care that much about her appearance,what a difference from some of the shallow stars of today !! While Liv Tyler and Drew Barrymore are my impossibly aspirational celebrity role models (naturally chubby gals who can really pull out all the stops for a film role, red carpet event, etc.), I think Jo Brand is my more realistic celebrity equivalent. She's a chronic procrastinator (you can always tell when I've got a deadline or, in this case, two deadlines, looming because I go through books like nobody's business), a "right fascist about spelling", and I may have found my new life credo in: "what I like best in life is reading books, preferably accompanied by a little light scoffing".So I can absolutely forgive her that this autobiography is marginally duller (and much more poorly edited - repetition a-go-go!) than her last one.
What do You think about Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down (2011)?
Really enjoyed this, not quite as good as Look Back in Hunger but still a great read.
—eli
Good holiday reading and her style is very nice. Really written the was she speaks.
—Taylor
Well written and interesting to hear from a comic discussing her craft.
—ali
I like Jo Brand as a personality, the book was Ok, skipped over some.
—tish
