I Am NOT Fine, Thanks

I consumed most of this in a day. It was hilarious. I assume if the audiobook is read by Wil Anderson, it is even funnier, but I read this.

I’ve read other reviews saying it’s been marketed incorrectly as a memoir when it’s actually bits of his comedy. I wasn’t too fussed – Wil is a comedian and he probably does comedy sketches better than he writes memoir and I don’t really care that I didn’t get to read about Wil musing about his time in kindergarten or whatever.

This does have a fair bit about Covid and Wil’s time in Covid which is from where he draws his comedy. In fact there’s a whole few chapters at the beginning and I realised he’d only just got vaccinated. Everyone else says “I got the vax”. No, Wil can draw that out for chapters. It isn’t boring but it’s an adventure.

Wil obviously has certain opinions on things – it won’t be for people who don’t agree and get easily offended by those who disagree with them.

He gets into some pretty funny situations and I loved to read stuff like about how he dealt with his bad back, or his general technical incapacity. Washing machines, recording equipment.

Hey, I had an incident like that, once at uni and we had to record ourselves doing a video presentation as an assignment and we ended up videoing the carpet on the floor. You could still hear our audio presentation over it and we ended up thinking that the floor was more interesting than our faces so we submitted it anyway. So I very much empathised with Wil’s plight.

The wood pile and the echidna story were fantastic too.

Sometimes, it’s great to know someone on TV is a normal person. Because as Wil makes his views known about billionaires and their unreal lives, some people also think TV people are out of touch and question whether they really are real or maybe they are just on screen and don’t have real lives and what the heck do they know about “real people” and this book reminds us that they are normal people who have problems … and do weird things to attempt to solve those problems!