Cautionary Tales

By: Chris Addison

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Paperback | 4 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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These are dark days. The world is seething with imbeciles and poltroons. Everywhere the careless and thoughtless are charging about the place in hulking 4x4s, or inviting Channel 4 to come around rather than clean their own homes. So comedian Chris Addison has written CAUTIONARY TALES FOR GROWN-UPS poems to illustrate the dangers of modern behaviour.

The tales include:

* The Gloucestershire Horse Club, Who posed Naked for a Charity Calendar.

* Phillip, who talked only in Management Speak

* Myfanwy, Who answered an Email from a Nigerian Bank Manager

* and Fiona and Dave, who had a Wacky Wedding

Sparklingly wicked and cunningly illustrated, this is a hilarious Struwelpeter for the twenty-first century.

Industry Reviews

Extremely funny - Stephanie Merritt, Observer

What could be more pleasing than to see annoying types getting their richly-deserved comeuppance? . . . Neatly and cruelly done and ingeniously rhymed - Oliver Pritchett, Sunday Telegraph

His scathing wit deserves comic-laureate status. - The Sunday Times on Chris Addison

The country's most erudite young stand-up. - Guardian on Chris Addison

There aren't enough stars for Addison's show: he is erudite but not inaccessible or superior; confident withouth being arrogant, and the show is so well written and sharp that you will bore your friends for days afterwards quoting memorable lines from it. - Stephanie Merritt, Observer
A clever sod. - Metro
A load of Bellocs - and in a good way ... recommended - Dave Crozier, Hampstead and Highgate
Shockingly good ... spot-on - The Leeds Guide

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