help but think of Kenny Everett. “I just want to be funny,” he says. “I think everything has the potential to be funny. The most annoying thing about me is I always laugh at my own jokes. Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited new autobiography.

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For the past decade I’ve survived on borrowing money, loans and basically hardly spending any money at all,” he says. “Not that long ago I had to pay my train fare into London with a load of 5p coins I scraped together from the change pot in the house. It was completely humiliating. I kept getting timed out before I’d managed to get them all in.”Michael McIntyre's meteoric rise to fame took the comedy world by storm in 2008. He sold out over 100 tour dates around the UK and his first DVD release Michael McIntyre: Live & Laughing became the fastest selling debut stand up DVD of all time. Five years later and midway through a 54-date tour that includes four nights at London’s O2 Arena, Michael McIntyre plays to 16,000 people a time. His latest DVD is the fastest-selling stand-up disc ever. When McIntyre talked about the problems of driving a car that wouldn’t turn right, or the awkwardness of male changing rooms, there was no smart, cynical knowingness to it... it was just funny.

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years of struggling on the comedy circuit followed. Most frustrating was knowing he was funny, of seeing audiences hysterical night after night and yet of still getting little or no recognition from the critics. “I made no impact for a long time. It was confusing and hard, really hard, just to keep going.”troubled upbringing. All that happened was some people came round for pasta so I talk about pasta.” He was only seven, however, when his parents’ marriage ended and his father moved to Los Angeles. Michael and his sister Lucy stayed in London with his mother Kati, a former dancer. He was an instant success. More TV shows followed, the critics began to take notice. The amiable man with the posh voice and the infectious observational routines was in direct contrast to the style of the more hyped comedians.