Jenny Eclair Audiobooks

Grumpy Old Women wit at full volume in Jokes, Jokes, Jokes

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Who is Jenny Eclair?

Jenny Eclair, born Jenny Clare Hargreaves in 1960, is a Malaysian-born English comedian, novelist and actress. Television audiences know her best from Grumpy Old Women, where she appeared between 2004 and 2007, and from her time on Loose Women in 2011 and 2012.

Hers is a genuinely double-tracked career: Eclair is a working comedian and a working novelist, and the trades feed each other – the comic’s eye for the ridiculous sharpens the prose, while the novelist’s discipline gives the comedy shape. That refusal to sit in one lane is precisely what has kept her distinctive.

Jenny Eclair in audiobooks

Jokes, Jokes, Jokes, the Eclair title in our catalogue, announces itself honestly – this is a comedian’s book, and comedians are the safest bet in audio. Timing, tone and the pause before a punchline are exactly the things print flattens and narration restores, and Eclair has spent a career mastering all three.

UK listeners who know her from Grumpy Old Women will find the register familiar: funny, frank and constitutionally incapable of false politeness. It is the sort of listening that shortens a motorway journey considerably.