He took my kidney then broke my heart by Dave Spikey (2009)

He took my kidney then broke my heart by Dave Spikey (2009)
Read: January 2010

Scotty bought me this for my birthday as we both love Dave Spikey. We loved Phoenix Nights but found him lots funnier in stand-up compared to Peter Kaye. Although it wasn't as good as Phoenix Nights we enjoyed Dead Man Weds which Dave Spikey wrote and starred in alongside Jonny Vegas. Dead Man Weds got its inspiration from those strange newspaper headlines and its from that that this book came about.
On his most recent tour, Dave Spikey would check out the local paper for the headlines it was running - you can always tell a lot about an area from the stories it runs in the local rag.He has put the best ones in this book.
The structure is really good - he has the newspaper headline and article in one column and then another column for his comments/reactions to it. This means he spaces them out giving you time to react to a headline before reading the rest of the story.
Some headlines are brilliant and then some of his comments even better. Old favourites, like dobbers and dogs come up and there are lots of bits in it that made me laugh out loud.
It is now pride of place next to the toilet for continued revisiting and rereading.