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A reminder that the world record for "not mad in fact I'm actually laughing" was achieved in 1999 with this section from Paul Daniels' fabulously odd memoir, UNDER NO ILLUSION, in which he describes being cancelled by the BBC. 
To all those screaming Partridge, I believe it was a holy text of inspiration for @neilgibbons but I might be misremembering? It and Nick Owen's masterfully titled memoir In The Time of Nick
A reminder that Chapter 6 of Paul Daniel's autobiography UNDER NO ILLUSION is entitled Casual Sex.
Every chapter of Paul Daniel's autobiography UNDER NO ILLUSION is preceded by a sort of Reeling In The Years style rundown of what was going on in the world at that time, every one of which is mindbendingly asinine.
- Papa, tell us: what was it like when the Sixties started?
- Hmm, like an international firework I guess!
- Hmm, like an international firework I guess!
