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Jimmy Tarbuck to publish autobiography in November

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By Jimmy Tarbuck
| British Comedy Guide Verified
Comedy writer? Stand-up comedian? Looking to progress? Join BCG Pro Thursday 31st July 2025, 3:36pm Comedy and entertainment icon Jimmy Tarbuck has written his autobiography. Laughter Is The Best Medicine will be published on 6th November by Ebury Spotlight, and is now available to order in hardback and eBook formats. The book is described as "a nostalgic and personal journey through the golden age of British entertainment, by one of its last surviving true legends".
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Des O'Connor became one of Britain's best loved performers despite his mother's saying he couldn't 

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By Jimmy Tarbuck
| The Girl Sun
What a gift for the headline writers. One evening in December 1980 an argument broke out at Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire. A few of the prisoners wanted to watch a Panorama documentary on the only TV set in the young offenders’ wing. The rest were insisting on a variety show…Des O’Connor Tonight on BBC2. Prison officers took a show of hands: Des won the vote and in the ensuing riot 47 protesters burst through the roof of D Wing, where many remained until the next afternoon.
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