Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

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Laverde, Jake (2 Julie 2010). "The IT Crowd series 4 episode 2 review #2". Den of Geek! . Retrieved 5 August 2017. Limmy has struggled with depression, suicidal thoughts and alcoholism, and has discussed this on social media and in interviews. [37] [38] He has been teetotal since 2004. [39] Limmy was in a relationship with Lynn McGowan from 2000; [40] In January 2022, she announced they had separated. [41] They have a son. [42] [43] Limmy is an atheist [44] [45] and supports Scottish independence. [46] Filmography [ edit ] Year And how he made his own sketch show. He directed it himself. Plus he is a dad, and an adult. Yet he still feels like a mad freak from all those years ago. He still feels like throwing it all away, just to get a laugh.

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In Januar 2016, Limmy did fower nichts at the Clyde Auditorium an ane nicht at the Hammersmith Apollo, takin material frae his telly shaws tae become Limmy Live! [20] In Mey 2016, he pit forrit his seicont beuk o short stories, That's Your Lot, he yokit til ainither beuk readin-tour. [21] [22] Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast: RHLSTP 274 - Limmy". British Comedy Guide. 6 May 2020 . Retrieved 18 October 2020. I could have guessed that he'd had a life like this from his characters; so much authentic idiocy, lunacy, awkwardness, pretension, and pettiness. Surprised that Dee-Dee is based on his own trippy blankness; Limmy's so sharp these days.Limond has struggled wi mental halth issues sic as depression an suicidal thochts, as weel as a historie o alcoholism. He aften appenly communes on these issues on social media an in speirs. [30] [31] He has been aff the bottle syne 2004. [32] He has been in a relationship wi Lynn McGowan syne 2000. [33] They hae a loon cried Daniel McGowan Limond, born 2010. [34] [35]

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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast: RHLSTP 80 - Limmy". British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 11 October 2017. Limond describes the teenage years he spent drinking and getting into trouble, on one occasion stealing a car, with disarming honesty in his autobiography, Surprisingly Down to Earth and Very Funny. “I don’t like hiding things. If I can expose the weaknesses in myself, they can’t be uncovered,” he says. “But I didn’t write about my life with the aim of then saying, ‘This is how you can get better’. I just wanted to get it out and it turns out that being open can be a big help in showing people they are not alone.” Comedian Richard Herring on his hit podcast, dream guests and bringing the show to Glasgow". 8 November 2019 . Retrieved 28 November 2019. Comedian Limmy opens up about depression". www.gq-magazine.co.uk. GQ. Archived frae the original on 5 November 2015 . Retrieved 1 December 2014.Limmy told them that he was not sure that he could fill up an entire book with only putting that in there. However how about he write a general autobiography sort of thing and all of the mental health stuff is going to naturally appear along the way? He could talk about growing up and slashing his wrist and taking acid all the time. Getting done for car theft, and feeling like such a mad freak who would never amount to anything.

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Eames, Tom (9 Juin 2016). "Limmy's Falconhoof sitcom was turned down and he has no plans for new Limmy's Show". Digital Spy . Retrieved 31 Mey 2017.The deep function of laughter is apparently that it allows play / boundary learning / questioning social norms. So to be a comedian, you have be a step past your society. (I doubt funniness is linear in weirdness though.) And Limmy is obviously out there. He regularly tweets about how much he misses drinking (which I've never seen an alcoholic do), and satirises the now-daily flamewars of the shouting classes by taking absurd and alternating stances on every issue (...) . In 2014, Limmy had a regular segment in the second series of the Charlie Brooker news satire show Weekly Wipe. He is also known for his live webcam chats, in which he interacts with fans and makes music. [19] In 2015, Limmy wrote his first book titled Daft Wee Stories, published by Random House. [20] [21] To promote the book, Limmy embarked on a UK book reading tour. Three of the stories were also published in The Scotsman newspaper. [22] [23]