My Booky Wook by Russell Brand Russell Brand may be Britain's favorite comedian, but he is just as well known for his questionable antics and various addictions as he is for his jokes. In his My Booky Wook, the show-stealing star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall remembers a troubled childhood with an intolerable step-father, a disastrous theatre school career, and an adulthood blurred by his drug problems. So get ready for the year's most scandalously hilarious memoir, but be warned: you may never look at a game of Battleship the same way again.

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