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Re-Run the Fun
- My Life as Pat Sharp
- Narrated by: Pat Sharp
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
Pat Sharp is a man out of time.
For those of a certain generation, he is an iconic figure synonymous with good fun, great hair and excess gunge. For others, he's just that bloke with a mullet.
Fame is a fickle beast and, since the cancellation of Fun House in 1999 ('Just ten years into its run, when it was finally finding its feet'), Pat has become a reclusive figure, only emerging from his splendid isolation to pop up on things like I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Come Dine with Me.
Until now.
With time on his hands and now reliant on a faulty memory, Pat has expertly blended fact and...fiction: revealing all about his adventures with David Hassselhof at the Berlin Wall in 1989; how he broke up a fight between Damon Albarn and Liam Gallagher at a house party; the time he suggested Geri's dress be a Union Jack; and much more.
A definitive work (based on very little fact) that anatomises the cultural trends of the '80s and '90s, Re-Run the Fun is just the kind of sorta-biography we need in these turbulent times. Finally, the Great British public can learn what life is like just about in sight of the top - the highs, the lows and the hair tips.
Critic reviews
"The perfect antidote to 2020." (Huffington Post)
"A must-read if you like funny things." (Greg James)
"I had no idea Pat Sharp's life story would be so hilarious and I strongly suspect neither did he." (Nish Kumar)
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- Nadia Hunter
- 13-02-21
funny book
strange mix of truth/fiction, Pat is brilliant
and it took me right back to the good old days
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- Art Vandelay
- 09-11-20
A wonderful bit of nineties nostalgia
A superb book that treads the line between reality and fiction for an entertaining and nostalgic look back at the nineties.
It's a book that might have a fairly narrow target audience, as you really need to be familiar with kids TV in the nineties to fully appreciate all the references in this book. If that is you then this blend of the real and the fabricated is a lovely, light-hearted read that gently sends up Sharp and his fellow entertainers from that time. Neil Buchanan from Art Attack is the closest thing to a villain in the story and it's enjoyable reading about the fictional rivalry between the two.
The book feels very close to Alan Partridge in places, where it delves into the life of a B or C list celebrity whose star is on the wane. I don't see this as a bad thing though and thought the jokes were consistently funny throughout.
In this serious time, I enjoyed reading a book that was relentlessly silly and an enjoyable break from the real world. It won't win the Booker or get discussed in literary circles but it was a fun read and deserves to be very successful.
The audiobook is narrated by Sharp and enhanced the experience of reading it. His performance is spot on and helps to sell the tongue-in-cheek sortabiography approach of embellishing the truth.
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-09-23
An oddly funny listen
This is a very odd book with some very funny lines. I would recommend it but dip into it over a long period rather than do it all in one go!
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