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THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLERbr>br>Pre-order the funniest memoir of 2021, written by the most relatable woman in the world - Daisy May Cooper, creator and star of BBC''s award-winning comedy This Countrybr>br>''Thank goodness for gloriously silly Daisy May Cooper. Joyful, irreverent and totally uplifting'' The Timesbr>br>''The lockdown comedy queen'' Guardianbr>______br>br>Life hasn''t always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Gloucestershire with her brother Chaz, she had to work a myriad of low-paid and unrewarding jobs just to make ends meet. Don''t Laugh, It''ll Only Encourage Her is the endearingly honest and hilarious memoir from the creator and star of award-winning BBC comedy This Country.br>____br>br>When things were really bad, Mum would always say to me:br>br>''Don''t worry, it will be a good read for your memoir one day.''br>br>''Mum, I auditioned to be a stripper by snogging a pole and was laughed off the stage by a bunch of topless dancers.''br>br>''Well that can go in the memoir.''br>br>''Mum, I spent all my student loan accidently on a penthouse suite in a fancy hotel in Marble Arch, now I face getting kicked out of drama school.''br>br>''That''s a good one for the memoir.''br>br>''Mum, sorry I''m late for dinner, I had to work late at my cleaning job because someone balanced a Quaver packet full of piss on the radiator in the boy''s toilets, and I didn''t realise until I picked it up, so I had to wash the piss off me in the sink while trying to learn my lines for that Call the Midwife audition I have in London tomorrow.''br>br>''Memoir...''br>br>I have lived the most humiliating, ridiculous, screw-up of a life but Mum was right, you''ve just got to remember, sometimes the worst experiences make the most entertaining stories.br>______>
