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Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle from the British comedian

English

By (author): Richard Herring

'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER

'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON

If we are cowardly, we are told to grow some
If we're brave, we're said to have huge ones
If it's cold, they are liable to fall off - even if you're a brass monkey
If we're in trouble, someone will threaten to break them
If we have to work hard, we might very well bust them
If we're in somebody's thrall, then they've got us by them

About fifteen years ago, stand-up comedian and writer Richard Herring first took part in a campaign to encourage men to have a little (non-sexual) feel of their balls every now and again. But it was embarrassing and weird, and if there was something wrong, he didn't want to know about it.

Anyway, that kind of stuff only happens to other people, doesn't it?

At the start of 2021 Richard was diagnosed with testicular cancer. For a man whose output includes a stand-up tour titled Talking Cock and who regularly interrogates our attitudes towards masculinity, it was a diagnosis that came with additional layers of complexity.

Telling Rich's personal story alongside an exploration of what defines masculinity and 'maleness' in society, Can I Have My Ball Back? is not your typical cancer memoir. Whether they're nuts, bollocks, gonads or family jewels; from the phrase 'grow some balls' to infamous WWII songs about Hitler; Rich unpicks the tangle of emotions around his own testing times. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 240g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Oct 2023
  • Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780751585742

About Richard Herring

Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an innovator in the world of podcasts. Persistently placing in the Top 10 UK Comedy Podcast chart Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP) sees him interview top comedians in front of a live audience with previous guests including Sir Michael Palin Dawn French and Grayson Perry. He has written and appeared in a number of critically acclaimed plays is a frequent guest on television panel shows regularly tours as a stand-up comedian and was the winner of series 10 of Taskmaster. He's also won a House of Games Champion of Champions trophy. And it only took him four goes to win Pointless.

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