I am a massive Jack Whitehall fan, and have been for a while. I have seen him live on ' A League of Their Own' and watched many of his stand ups, I find him very funny and enjoyable to watch. I then received Jack and his fathers book 'Him & Me' for Christmas which I was very thrilled about.
I do like how throughout the book, both Jack and Michael take it in turns to write a different chapter about something amusing that has happened in their lives, because you get a different prospective from them both. Jack likes to exaggerate in his chapters, whilst Michael keeps it straight, with the odd joke now and then. They also add in comments to each other on their chapters which I enjoyed, and I do not think I have come across that in another book before, so that was something new. Then at the end of each chapter, the opposite person who wrote the chapter would then write a list of their opinions from that chapter. Usually Michael stating how much Jack has over reacted.
My favourite chapters were 'Four weeks in Provence' and 'Art'. I found them the funniest and felt like I could relate to the stories compared to the other chapters.
I could not help but feel a little disappointed on the very last chapter, because I knew I had heard this story before. I got Jack's stand-up DVD for Christmas the year before, and he had taken some of the script out of that and put it in the last chapter. I felt like it was a cop out in a way, surely he could have put something new in the last chapter?
Another part of the book that I felt let down by were mainly Jack's chapters. I really enjoyed them and I think i preferred them over Michael's, but could not help thinking that the majority of the story was either highly exaggerated or completely made up. Which I would not have minded because I enjoyed them, it would be when I got to the very end and Michael would state how much of a lie most of it was, but, I suppose that is what comedians like to do to make people laugh.
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