How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Stewart Lee

A very entertaining and thought-provoking book. As well as autobiographical chapters it contains transcripts of some of his stand-up shows, annotated with thousands of words of footnotes where he explains all the jokes and analyses himself, sometimes very critically. His views on comedy and art are interesting and he's obviously very intelligent, but fairly arrogant too, and his repeated admissions of and apologies for this arrogance don't help. The fact that he has made a career on such a narrow, non-mainstream, intellectual approach in an industry full of bullshit and greed (like any other) is very encouraging.