Limmy to write new book, titled 'Daft Wee Stories' ". The Scotsman. 20 June 2014 . Retrieved 5 January 2022. It's about being strange in a normal, subclinical* way: intrusive thoughts, groundless anxiety, reduced affect display, auditory hallucination, mild paranoia, misanthropy, hysteroid dysphoria.

Degrees day at Glasgow Caledonian University". Herald Scotland. 15 November 1996 . Retrieved 9 January 2022. Prior to the show, Limmy had made a name for himself with online sketches and a daily podcast, and since it ended he’s stayed prolific creating Vines and Twitch videos. He’s also branched out into prose, writing two well-received volumes of short stories. Limond has struggled with mental health issues such as depression and suicidal thoughts, as well as a history of alcoholism. He often openly discusses these issues on social media and in interviews. He has been teetotal since 2004. He has been in a relationship with Lynn McGowan since 2000. They have a son named Daniel McGowan Limond, born in 2010. Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes. But I’m quite happy with things as they are.” Read More Related ArticlesRichard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast: RHLSTP 274 - Limmy". British Comedy Guide. 6 May 2020 . Retrieved 18 October 2020. What kinds of things do you think boys have to deal with today – do you think the experience is the same for them? I said to them, oh, I don’t know if I could fill a whole book with just that. But how’s about I write a general autobiography type of thing, and all the mental health stuff will naturally appear along the way? I could talk about growing up and slashing my wrist and taking acid all the time and getting done for car theft and feeling like a mad freak that would never amount to anything.

Now Brian Limond is set to follow his sketch show and collections of short stories by telling a tale even darker than those he’s created for his characters. Laverde, Jake (2 July 2010). "The IT Crowd series 4 episode 2 review #2". Den of Geek! . Retrieved 5 August 2017. English, Paul. "Limmy: I think self-destructive Scots will vote no". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 5 April 2020. Limmy has struggled with depression, suicidal thoughts and alcoholism, and has discussed this on social media and in interviews. [37] [38] He has been teetotal since 2004. [39] Limmy was in a relationship with Lynn McGowan from 2000; [40] In January 2022, she announced they had separated. [41] They have a son. [42] [43] Limmy is an atheist [44] [45] and supports Scottish independence. [46] Filmography [ edit ] Year

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Again, it’s something that allows him to stay in and stay creative. “I love that you’re not putting on a big show, you just go live and talk about whatever comes to mind,” he says. “That’s my social life.” Limmy joined YouTube on March 28, 2008, and uploaded his first video the following day. His earliest videos were largely short comedy skits and vlogs or showcasing musical remixes he had made using the program Ableton Live. Limmy gives us a frank insight into some of his history and the coinciding battles and experiences with his mental health. Some of it is quite scary to hear but it is always dashed with some dark humour in the traditional Limmy way. it's definitely a very interesting read and I certainly recommend the audiobook version of not just this book but all of his previous books - It always adds a extra level of depth to hear him speak the words, and he's brilliant at it.Which brings us to his autobiography. Titled Surprisingly Down to Earth and Very Funny (a reference to a running online joke, in which the 44-year-old tweets the same faux obituary each time a public figure dies), the book chronicles his early days growing up on a council estate on the south side of Glasgow (“It was maybe a wee bit rough”), following him all the way through to “getting on the telly”. It’s an unflinchingly honest account, which sees him talk openly about his experiences with anxiety, alcoholism, suicidal thoughts and sex. While it’s written with the offbeat irreverence that characterises his work, the subject matter is often heavy. He said: “When I went to the doctor for depression and anxiety, he gave me Prozac right away. There was no talk of a counsellor to know whether I was in the right frame of mind to take these things. I’d told him I felt suicidal. It was as simple as, ‘OK, here’s these, and here’s that.’ Richardson, Jay (5 September 2020). "Limmy to quit TV with final special – News – British Comedy Guide". British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 1 May 2021.

English, Paul (17 November 2010). "Limmy: Fatherhood's made me more responsible - but it won't change my dark style of comedy". Daily Record . Retrieved 28 December 2019. I could have guessed that he'd had a life like this from his characters; so much authentic idiocy, lunacy, awkwardness, pretension, and pettiness. Surprised that Dee-Dee is based on his own trippy blankness; Limmy's so sharp these days. Limond describes the teenage years he spent drinking and getting into trouble, on one occasion stealing a car, with disarming honesty in his autobiography, Surprisingly Down to Earth and Very Funny. “I don’t like hiding things. If I can expose the weaknesses in myself, they can’t be uncovered,” he says. “But I didn’t write about my life with the aim of then saying, ‘This is how you can get better’. I just wanted to get it out and it turns out that being open can be a big help in showing people they are not alone.”

After continuing his comedy work for several years, Limmy was commissioned by BBC Scotland to create his own sketch show, Limmy's Show. The show ran for three series and a Christmas special between 2010 and 2013 and won two BAFTA Scotland awards. Limmy has also engaged in various other pursuits, such as writing several books and performing explicit live shows. The deep function of laughter is apparently that it allows play / boundary learning / questioning social norms. So to be a comedian, you have be a step past your society. (I doubt funniness is linear in weirdness though.) And Limmy is obviously out there. He regularly tweets about how much he misses drinking (which I've never seen an alcoholic do), and satirises the now-daily flamewars of the shouting classes by taking absurd and alternating stances on every issue (...) . a b c "Brian Limond: How I got there and where to next". The Drum. 20 January 2010 . Retrieved 15 June 2020. In August 2016, Limmy's channel began focusing on uploading clips from his stream, which has remained his most common style of content since. On 28 September 2019, Limmy uploaded a video titled "Honk if Thatcher's dead" which went viral and has remained his most viewed video to date.