
Parsnips, Buttered
Bamboozle and Boycott Modern Life, One Email at a Time
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Narrated by:
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Joe Lycett
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By:
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Joe Lycett
About this listen
Funny and brilliant, listen as British comedian Joe Lycett narrates his own witty, tongue-in-cheek guide to modern life. A dynamic stage performer, Lycett brings his hilarious debut audiobook to life with his unique brand of laugh-out-loud anecdotes and musings.
In this book I have attempted to solve each and every one of life's problems. And I have succeeded.
Dear Listener,
Using letters, emails, tweets and telegrams I will show you how the things in your life that make you sad, low or anxious can soon appear trivial, insignificant and like a fish. In short, I will butter your parsnips.
Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram, taxes, newspapers, watches monitoring our sleep, apps that read our pulse, terrorism. There's such an onslaught to the senses these days it's a marvel any of us manage to get out of bed. I love bed.
While we are overwhelmed and confused by the miasmic cloud of information, there are those that seek to take advantage: there are parking fines, hate tweets, Nigerian email scams and Christmas newsletters from old school friends about their ugly kids. And just as we're getting round to doing something about it, we're distracted again.
I, Joe Lycett, comedian, wordsmith, and professional complainer, am here to help. During my short life of doing largely nothing I've discovered solutions to many of life's problems, which I impart to you, dear Listener. Containing a centurion of complaint letters to unsuspecting celebrities, companies and anyone brave enough to clog up my phone, as well as illustrations, one-liners, jokes and life hacks, this little gem offers you a collection of tips and advice* for all manner of modern woe. By the time you have finished listening to this book you will have learnt how to:
- Reverse a parking fine
- Manipulate the tabloid press
- Navigate social media
- Respond to hate mail
- Out-weird Internet trolls
- Contest a so-called ripe avocado
- Send the perfect Christmas newsletter
- Defeat ISIS
- Take down multinational companies
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
Joe Lycett x
* If you are looking for guidance with taxes, quitting smoking, moving house, love, divorce, education, health care or anything actually important may I recommend speaking to friends or family members and not consulting a book by a comedian who eats halloumi at least twice a day.
©2016 Joe Lycett (P)2016 Hodder & StoughtonMEGA LOLZ!
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Joe Lycett is ridiculous, I love him and this book
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Hilarious!
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I listen to audio books as I am driving and found myself belly laughing while stuck in traffic, waiting at lights etc and attracting some odd stares from my fellow commuters... I wanted to wind down my window and shout ‘get parsnips, buttered and you’ll be in stitches too’ but I think I may have been locked up by now!!!
Hope your well!!! Xxx
Hilarious
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Parsnips, definitely buttered
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Non stop play
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Literally cried with laughter
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She brings to life the real world struggles of a brummy lass with such vivid detail. From her toils with the regular nuisance folk to her furious battles with government officials, she has lived quite the life.
I give it my stamp of approval (which is a stamp that says VOID in large letters with a little box around it) [I stole from my last employer]
WHAT A READ(or listen)!!!
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Had me in stitches and was well read!
Consider my parsnips amply buttered!
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Great fun!
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