Jokes, Jokes, Jokes cover art

Jokes, Jokes, Jokes

My Very Funny Memoir

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Jokes, Jokes, Jokes

By: Jenny Eclair
Narrated by: Jenny Eclair
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

 'Really funny & engaging. A breeze and a pleasure to read' Katherine Ryan

'As hilarious and outrageous as you might expect' Rosie Ramsey

'Funny. Poignant. Fascinating. Just the sort of hilarious, disrespectful, ribald book I love to get stuck into' Jo Brand

***

How did little Jenny Hargreaves become Jenny Eclair and elbow her way into the male dominated world of 1980s stand-up?

Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy's wife?) sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper), Jenny's comedy career took off via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery, waitressing and not really having a clue about anything.

This was a world before microphones, mobile phones, before everyone gave up smoking or started taking coke. Jenny Eclair was on the comedy circuit before there really was a comedy circuit and was the first woman to win the Perrier Award along the way.

Still gigging to sell-out crowds forty years later, Jenny Eclair's memoir charts her childhood, her career and the changing face of women in comedy, all told with hilarious brilliance in Jokes, Jokes, Jokes, her very funny memoir.

MORE PRAISE FOR JOKES, JOKES, JOKES

''Laugh out loud and moved to tears. Highly recommended' Josie Lawrence
'Rude, honest and funny' Dom Joly
'I love this book!' Helen Lederer
'A tonic for the soul' Jennie Godfrey
'Hilarious' Julian Clary
'You'll love it!' Anthea Turner©2024 Jenny Eclair (P)2024 Hachette Audio UK Performing Arts Comedy Memoir Funny Witty Feel-Good Heartfelt Inspiring Thought-Provoking

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Camberwell Beauty cover art
Not That I'm Bitter cover art
Jenny and Julie’s BBC Radio Dramas cover art
Little Lifetimes: Series 1-6 cover art
A Mind of My Own cover art
Vanessa Bares All cover art
Out of Character: From Abigail’s Party to Gavin and Stacey, and everything in between cover art
Friends of Dorothy cover art
Am I Having Fun Now? cover art
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You cover art
The Little Book of Miriam cover art
Curtain Call to Murder cover art
Sidesplitter cover art
My Lady Parts cover art
The Older I Get… cover art
Let the Light In cover art
All stars
Most relevant
Very honest memoir as you would expect from Jenny. She describes herself warts and all which is very rare these days. Her description of family life in the 60's and 70's, brought back fond memories of my own childhood and her love for her parents shines through, without the gushing sentimentality so prevalent today.

Honest and throughly entertaining.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Funny, insightful and at times sad, but what a life. Really enjoyed the book and having the author narrate added to it

Enjoyable memoir

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Funny, sad, heartfelt and funny again and again - will miss Jenny’s narration as bumble about my evenings.

Loved it

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I’m a fan of Jenny’s stage work,podcast and fiction and it was great to hear an honest account from Jenny of the highs and lows of her career. Highly recommended for any OWL

Funny and touching

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
So glad I listened to this. I only really “discovered” Jenny relatively recently and now know so much more about out her background and earlier career. Told in her no nonsense style, bluntly honest. She’s lived a full life and I hope she will entertain us with her comedy and books for a few more decades.

Funny, honest, a great listen.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews