Unhinged: A Parody
1st Edition
Published on 10. October 2024
128 pages
978-1-5266-8672-5 (ISBN)
Description
The perfect parody Christmas gift book for that selfish egomaniac in your life - written by Ian Martin, writer for The Thick of It and Veep
'Laughed so much I nearly forgot the last eight years!' Otto English
'Ian Martin has produced a traumatically funny book that takes its place in the noble and historic pantheon of British political satire.' The New European
'From the pen of the genius Ian Martin - I cannot tell you how f***king funny it is' John Niven
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Boris Johnson has been a towering figure for decades in the worlds of politics, journalism and personal scandal. Somehow, he always bounces back. How does he do it? And how might we mere mortals elevate our piffling lives to the same levels of greatness?
Learn how to be more like Boris in this parody companion to Johnson's own account of the last few years. Inside you'll find easy-to-recreate social gambits, life rules and some great excuses that'll get you out of all sorts of tricky situations. Plus, learn how to:
- Trivialise everything with buffoonery
- Rebuild reality using various self-centred techniques
- Smash everything to pieces. Then try to fix it. And then smash it again. . .
LET US ALL BE MORE BORIS!
'Laughed so much I nearly forgot the last eight years!' Otto English
'Ian Martin has produced a traumatically funny book that takes its place in the noble and historic pantheon of British political satire.' The New European
'From the pen of the genius Ian Martin - I cannot tell you how f***king funny it is' John Niven
______
Boris Johnson has been a towering figure for decades in the worlds of politics, journalism and personal scandal. Somehow, he always bounces back. How does he do it? And how might we mere mortals elevate our piffling lives to the same levels of greatness?
Learn how to be more like Boris in this parody companion to Johnson's own account of the last few years. Inside you'll find easy-to-recreate social gambits, life rules and some great excuses that'll get you out of all sorts of tricky situations. Plus, learn how to:
- Trivialise everything with buffoonery
- Rebuild reality using various self-centred techniques
- Smash everything to pieces. Then try to fix it. And then smash it again. . .
LET US ALL BE MORE BORIS!
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-8672-5 (9781526686725)
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Person
Ian Martin is an Emmy award-winning comedy writer and producer. His screen credits include the BAFTA-winning BBC series The Thick of It (for which he was originally brought in by Armando Iannucci as 'swearing consultant'); BAFTA-nominated The Death of Stalin (National Society of Film Critics Award, Best Screenplay); the multi-Emmy award-winning Veep (for which he won an Emmy and two Writers Guild of America Awards) and HBO's Avenue 5. He also wrote for the Oscar-nominated film In The Loop. His comedy-drama The Hartlepool Spy won the Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Drama in 2020. He has written for the Architects' Journal, New Statesman, the Observer and the Guardian. His experimental prose poem PANIC was set as a GCSE English question in 1998. From 2000-2005 he edited the cult satirical website martian.fm. His previous books include Epic Space, The Coalition Chronicles and Lost In The Attic. He lives in Lancaster, where he runs a primary school writing workshop. The workshop's first screenplay - Tig - was shot and released as a short film in 2024.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One MAKE YOUR OWN TRUTH
- July 2019
- August 2019
- September 2019
- October 2019
- November 2019
- December 2019
- January 2020
- February 2020
- March 2020
- April 2020
- May 2020
- June 2020
- July-September 2020
- October 2020
- November 2020
- December 2020
- January 2021
- March 2021
- April 2021
- May 2021
- July 2021
- August 2021
- September 2021
- October 2021
- November 2021
- December 2021
- January 2022
- February 2022
- March 2022
- April 2022
- May 2022
- June 2022
- July 2022
- Part Two BE MORE BORIS
- 1 If It Ain't Fixed, Break It
- 2 Think Big, Move On
- 3 Transgress to Progress
- 4 Be Yourself, Repeat Yourself
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
