Why Do I Say These Things?, Jonathan Ross
Why Do I Say These Things?, Jonathan Ross
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Why Do I Say These Things?

Author: Jonathan Ross

Narrator: Jonathan Ross

Abridged: 2 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/30/2008

Synopsis

This is Jonathan Ross. And nothing is out of bounds when it comes to talking about life as he knows it. From sex and pugs to rock 'n' roll and genital warts, Jonathan holds forth as only he can. This sharply observed, laugh-out-loud, outrageous page-turner will leave you asking just one question . . . Why didn't he write it sooner?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Monica on March 06, 2019

Oh, Jonathan Ross... Why DO you say these things? He says it quite well at the end of his book: "Really I should have shut up, but I am so convinced that I can salvage situations with words that I pressed on and at this point made matters slightly worse..." It's pattern that you'll recognize as class......more

Goodreads review by Kim Annabella on February 20, 2009

This book arrives swiftly on the heels of the Andrew sachs debacle whereupon he and russel brand were were publicly suspended from the bbc like naughty schoolboys caught cadging a fag off someone behind the bike sheds after a prank call to the grandfather of one of brand’s conquests. And to think so......more

Goodreads review by Charles on March 31, 2022

Not an autobiography , which is it's the books strength and weakness .It is a selection of amusing stories/anecdotes by Johnathan Ross , some more amusing than others .So when you get to the less interesting bit there is nothing to push the book forward . A tendency to ramble .......more

Goodreads review by David on May 14, 2021

Decently entertaining and Ross comes across well, and Jane Goldman, his wife, better.......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on September 21, 2022

I enjoyed this. I don't follow Jonathan Ross in particular but I love a biography and I did think this was a biography but it's not. It was just a comical list of stories, combined with different events in his life. It was very funny throughout and I did enjoy this. There were some stories of growin......more

Quotes

Laugh-out-loud funny. Joan Bakewell, Guardian

Hilarious anecdotes aplenty . . . For many of his fans, this will be the first time they get to know the real, likeable, human Jonathan Ross, beneath all the banter and bluster. Heat magazine

Fluent and entertaining . . . this is a very agreeable ramble through the lively thoughts of a non-smoking, now non-drinking family man with a talent to amuse and enthuse. David Sexton, Evening Standard

Taking us through his quirky view on life, including fashion, diets and, er, sweetshops this book is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Woman magazine

In between the adolescent porn tales and the hilarious diarrhoea anecdotes, he is funny and acute and full of ideas. Private Eye

Snap it up, pwonto. London Lite

It's impossible to deny he's the most entertaining interviewer. Times Educational Supplement

Irreverent and witty . . . hilarious . . . He explores everything - from diets to sweetshops and sex to pets, with all his customary lasciviousness and self-deprecatory humour. Living Edge

Splendidly entertaining, reflecting on everything from eating a loaf to Shintoism and...sex. Bournemouth Daily Echo

There are . . . completely honest admissions about his drinking, and laugh-out-loud accounts of his various fashion errors . . . Enjoy gleefully politically incorrect posturing and plain old-fashioned entertainment. The Resident

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