This debut memoir from the comedian best known as Howard Stern's radio show sidekick is scrappy, funny, tumultuous and profane, just like its author. Lange, a self-proclaimed fat guy with a heroin problem, is difficult to love, but easy to like, his shaggy-dog life storey full of derogatory self-awareness and cheerful vulgarity (often in the form of casual profanity and sexism).

Lange's suicide attempt and fond childhood memories of his beloved father and his outrageous and horrific behaviour involves prostitution, gaol time and several trips to rehab; perhaps the saddest recurring theme is the frequency with which Lange thanks someone who's helped him, only to reveal that that person is no longer a part of his life. Glossing over Lange's penchant for alienating people is just one oversight that keeps this warts-and-all memoir from feeling fully honest. Still, for those with a taste for his aggressive, self-loathing brand of humour will find this volume full of compulsively readable stories.