How I Escaped My Certain Fate

by Stewart Lee

Recommended in 6 interviews and reading lists

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Who recommends it

1. Daniel McNeilInterview

   I find writers such as Julie Burchill, Pauline Kael, Armond White and Paul Morley a bit better at reflecting a sentiment that is more combative and less willing to settle down into a certain genre, approach or class. My favourite book to break down the barriers of fiction and non-fiction and speak to working-class…

2. Rob DeeringInterview

   Frank Skinner Autobiography by Frank Skinner and How I Escaped My Certain Fate by Stewart Lee really spoke to me, but Born Standing Up by Steve Martin is so clear-eyed and economical – that’s the only one that would qualify as required reading.

3. Dan AntopolskiInterview

   I’d recommend How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian by Stewart Lee; it is compulsory and hugely funny.

4. Daniel RigbyInterview

   I can’t think of any one book in particular. The books I find most inspiring are normally collections of interviews with comedians about comedy. Sick In The Head by Judd Apatow is the most recent of these I’ve read. I also loved We Killed by Yael Kohen, which is about women in American comedy. How I Escaped My Certain…

5. Alexis DubusInterview

   The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, How I Escaped My Certain Fate by Stewart Lee and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

6. Stuart GoldsmithInterview

   I’m hopelessly addicted to Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels. I would also include How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-up Comedian by Stewart Lee, it is enthralling. They’re pretty similar really.

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