Grumpy Old Men

Description

At last! A comprehensive, handy guide for the misery-guts in your life. Are you an irritable, crabby, cantankerous, malcontented old grump? Well relax, because you're not alone. Grumpy Old Men is an annotated, cross-referenced and fully illustrated manual for malcontents everywhere: the comprehensive Gripes of Wrath. A compilation of gripes and grumbles, illustrated with blood-boiling images such as derailed trains and traffic wardens throughout. The next time you find yourself enraged by pointless speed bumps, overcrowded trains, ill-mannered drivers, irritating adverts, inefficient customer help-lines, overbooked airlines, inconsiderate cyclists, slow-moving caravans, extortionate bank charges, persistent charity collectors, mindless hotel muzak, unfunny clowns or just plain miserable British weather, let this book take the strain. The ultimate in stress-relief for the 21st-Century Grouch.

David's book GRUMPY OLD MEN, published by HarperCollins, spent 14 weeks in the Sunday Times Top Ten Best Sellers list. The second in the series, GRUMPY OLD MEN ON HOLIDAY is now available, and David is currently working on a new book, SHUT UP AND GET ON WITH IT, the anti-grumpy manual. He writes HARRY HILL'S TV BURP for Avalon/ITV1, THE MESSAGE (BBC 3) and writes and appears in CHARLIE BROOKER'S SCREEN WIPE (BBC 4) as well as BORN SLOPPY, MAKE MY DAY and the British Comedy Award winning MY NEW BEST FRIEND on Channel 4, and the CBBC series, MYSTI. He wrote 40 YEARS OF FUCK for BBC 4, and is writing a pilot for HBO and another for Lion Television. He is the writer and host of the Radio 2 series, THE BLAGGERS' GUIDE, and stars as Doctor Dave The Music Doctor on RADIO RIVRON. He is also a regular contributor to LOOSE ENDS and FRONT ROW, and has his own new 6 part Radio 4 comedy series, called ONE will be broadcast later this year. His Radio 4 writing includes THE 15 MINUTE MUSICAL and THAT MITCHELL AND WEBB SOUND, and the songs on PARSONS AND NAYLOR on Radio 2. No stranger to a big event, he wrote THE QUEEN'S 80TH BIRTHDAY TEA PARTY, 2003's Golden Jubilee Special, The Duke of Edinburgh Awards concert and the Rolf Harris 50 years in showbusiness special for the Prince of Wales and Russell Crowe, and THE AVENUE OF THE STARS for ITV1. He was also a writer on Brass Eye. He co-wrote and starred in BUSSMAN AND QUANTICK KING SIZE on Radio 4, and has been a writer-performer on Radio 4's THE NOW SHOW as well as appearing on THE NEWS QUIZ, THE 99p CHALLENGE, WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE, CROSS-QUESTIONED and THE TREATMENT. He contributed to TOP 100 TV CHARACTERS and a host of the TOP TEN series for Channel 4, and the BBC's I LOVE THE... series. He starred in and wrote Radio 2's hit series LLOYD COLE KNEW MY FATHER with Stuart Maconie and Andrew Collins. His book REVOLUTION about The Beatles's white sleeved album 'The Beatles' is available in the shops now. He is still an active journalist, and writes for Q and Word magazines. He is co-author and creator of THE JUNKIES, the world's first internet sitcom and 1,000,000 people have visited it since it was first posted.