Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

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After continuing his comedy work for several years, Limmy was commissioned by BBC Scotland to create his own sketch show, Limmy's Show. The show ran for three series and a Christmas special between 2010 and 2013 and won two BAFTA Scotland awards. Limmy has also engaged in various other pursuits, such as writing several books and performing explicit live shows.

The Write Stuff: Three tales from Limmy's Daft Wee Stories". The Scotsman. 15 August 2015 . Retrieved 5 January 2022. Hello! I’m Brian Limond, aka Limmy. You might know me from Limmy’s Show. Or you might not know me at all. Don’t worry if you don’t. Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast: RHLSTP 274 - Limmy". British Comedy Guide. 6 May 2020 . Retrieved 18 October 2020. The other reason Lloyd Cole didn't like the book was because he didn't find Limmy, as a person, "likable" and I have to disagree with him here. Clearly funny and displaying intelligence (of "some kind") Limmy also comes across here as a sensitive and thoughtful man. He speaks openly about his childood, his struggles with alcohol, his, often disastrous, relationships with women and his mental health issues. My impression was of an open, caring and, yes, likable person. So, you are wrong on that one, Lloyd. We might not be living through a golden age for TV sketch shows just now, but Limmy’s Show was a brilliant one. For three series between 2010 and 2013, it doled up a rapid-fire succession of set-ups and characters united by a dark, disorientating, stoned-at-three-in-the morning tone. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the show was named in honour of the strange liminal space it inhabits, but no. It was actually by a guy from Glasgow called Brian ‘Limmy’ Limond.

He said: “I remember being a teenager and there would be opportunities with girls who would be into the idea.

And if you thought the world ­inhabited by characters such as ­Falconhoof and Jacqueline McCafferty was bleak, this will make their world seem like the brightest summer’s day. I know several people with the same mix of terrible impulses and good intentions, charisma and anti-social solitude: folk whose adolescence lasted twenty years. They're the funniest people I know, by far. I don't know how class comes into it, but they're all working-class. Maybe middle-class people as strange as them direct it inward, rather than outward as comedy or violence. (They're also all Scots but that's a selection effect, I hope.) Having always spoken candidly about your own mental health, you predated that wave of public figures coming out and discussing the topic so openly. How do you feel about where the conversation is currently – are we in a better place?English, Paul (17 November 2010). "Limmy: Fatherhood's made me more responsible - but it won't change my dark style of comedy". Daily Record . Retrieved 28 December 2019. That said, I don't wish to make this sound like this is a particularly heavy book to read in that sense - And that's the beauty of it. All this is told and explained with Limmy's humour and self depricating wit included with in other daft anecdotes. Again, it’s something that allows him to stay in and stay creative. “I love that you’re not putting on a big show, you just go live and talk about whatever comes to mind,” he says. “That’s my social life.”

Laverde, Jake (2 July 2010). "The IT Crowd series 4 episode 2 review #2". Den of Geek! . Retrieved 5 August 2017. I asked them if they wanted me to write about all that, plus some other stuff. Like being an alky. And my sexual problems. Stuff like that.

Limmy to write new book, titled 'Daft Wee Stories' ". The Scotsman. 20 June 2014 . Retrieved 5 January 2022. Because, as well as being a compelling first-person account of living with mental health issues, Surprisingly Down to Earth is, as the title promises, very funny. Uproariously, even. Limmy’s chatty, seemingly off-the-cuff patter marks him out as a natural storyteller, and the humour is easy and unforced, allowed to grow organically out of his skewed outlook on the world. And it’s genuinely interesting to see how Limmy’s varied talents, obsessions, hang-ups and life experiences coalesced into a successful career achieved on his own terms. Welcome to the world of Limmy". The Scotsman. 13 November 2006. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013 . Retrieved 13 June 2020.