Jokes, Jokes, Jokes

Jokes, Jokes, Jokes is Eclair's account of how she elbowed her way into the male-dominated world of 1980's stand-up. Her journey began via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, and sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet. It includes her experiences with punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery, waitressing, and not really having a clue about anything.

This narrative covers years spent getting changed next to a deep fat fryer in rooms above pubs, with audiences expecting 'a song' or at least 'some impressions'.

Set in a world before microphones, mobile phones, and when everyone smoked and hadn’t yet started taking coke, Eclair was on the comedy circuit before there really was a comedy circuit. Forty years later, she is still gigging. This book provides a snapshot of a 'once upon a time' period, starting in Lancashire, then Manchester before it became Madchester—when the canals still stank, and the entire population was nicotine stained—to London, where Covent Garden was still a market. It also describes the time before, when little Jenny Hargreaves, daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy) and June Hargreaves (spy's wife), and sister to Sara (born to be head girl) and Ben (of very little interest), was growing up.

Jokes, Jokes, Jokes charts the changing face of women in comedy since the very early 80's.