Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

Discover the funniest memoir of 2021, written by the most relatable woman in the world - Daisy May Cooper, creator and star of BBC's award-winning comedy This Country

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELELLER
A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021

'Brilliant. A joy and a delight - I laughed out loud! An absolute cracker' ZOE BALL
'A riot from start to finish' DAILY MIRROR
'Hilarious' SUN
'Thank goodness for gloriously silly Daisy May Cooper. Joyful, irreverent and totally uplifting' THE TIMES
'The funniest woman on TV' GUARDIAN
'Hilarious' DAILY EXPRESS
'When I'm up on stage, I don't want to be anywhere else in the world'

Since I was little, I've had a cast of characters living inside my head, an over-active imagination and the urge to be a massive f**king show-off. Not only was my family completely insane, but we grew up battling rural poverty, and together with my brother Charlie, I staggered my way through adolescence like a p**sed-up butterfly.

In Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her, I'll take you on a rollercoaster ride so extreme it'll make you laugh, then cry, then barf your guts up.

From my misspent childhood skulking around car boot sales to reimagining WWE Smackdowns for a Cirencester audience; from my one-armed internet boyfriend to a lover who doubled as a coat-stand; from snogging a pole at a lap-dancing audition to imitating a warthog at RADA to finally having This Country commissioned by the BBC.