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- Narrated by: Larry Emdur
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Larry Emdur is one of Australia's most popular and enduring TV personalities. Happy As is a memoir of becoming Larry.
Long before the game shows and morning TV, Larry Emdur was just Larry, a cheeky kid from Bondi who grew up paddling round the kiddies' pool on a foam surfboard, and rocking a safari suit and bowl haircut. It was an idyllic childhood growing up in the 1970s and '80s, dominated by endless summers, adventures with mates, sunburnt noses and board rashes, all underpinned by his dad's simple rule: 'Be nice to everyone.'
Told with wit and warmth, Happy As charts Larry's career as a professional show-off, from winner of the Rose Bay Public School marching parade to living-room fixture. From his first 'job' pinching golf balls to that big TV break; from awkward teen romances to true love; from the less-than-impressed prize winners on The Price is Right to unexpectedly bonding with Yoko Ono - this is a life-affirming collection of stories about the enduring love of family and friends, and just how far being nice to everyone will get you.
A perfect blend of nostalgia, side-splitting humour and heartbreaking pathos that will leave you wishing it was the '80s again.
Emdur's laugh-out-loud chronicle of his four decades in television, the book also serves as a sepia-toned recollection of a time when childhoods were long and families were everything. Angela Mollard, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
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- Su G.
- 22-08-2022
Come on Down
What a brilliant autobiography of Larry Emdur absolutely brilliant, had me laugh till my tummy hurt and to top it off I was on a train with people looking at me weirdly lol
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- Christine
- 12-10-2022
Just confirmed
Always loved Larry Emdur (with and without hair 😊)
Reading his book has just confirmed what I thought. A good bloke who tells a great story and has learned some valuable lessons along the way.
Story reminds me of times gone by and so much more.
Thanks Larry….love your work. Always a pleasure to watch and listen to.
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-09-2022
Time well spent
Loved it! Laughed out loud and shed a tear, what a beautifully written, and narrated, autobiography. Proves you don't need to read books to write one, when the stories are from the heart it writes itself. Thank you Larry.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-02-2024
Smiles all round
I've loved and admired Larry since I was a little kid, from The Price is right in the 90s to The Morning Show, he seems like a lovely, genuine, humble, funny and endearing man. His story and his tales are great too 😅 and I wish him and his family all the best 👍 I've added this to my favourites on Audible and I've bought myself a paperback version from Amazon :)
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- Anonymous User
- 15-09-2022
Great
Loved this , made me laugh and cry many times. Larry is similar age to me and I was an ex Physie girl too. Go the march!!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-09-2022
Worth the listen
It was really nice with k arfys voice it was like having a chat with a friend listening about his life
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- Anonymous User
- 19-01-2023
Loved it
Made me laugh n think of Larry in a different way. Love the way he treats his family
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- Joanne Wai
- 07-08-2022
Highly recommended
Hilariously Honest , everything you would expect from Larry Emdur. a bonus it's read from the man himself.
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- Michelle Shiers
- 03-01-2023
Fabulous down to earth story
Thanks for sharing your story - I loved the tongue in cheek account of your youth, growing up in Bondi, the love you have for your family, your career highs/ lows and the fact you are not afraid to take the piss out of yourself.
You are as you seem - a friendly guy.
Well done!
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- LilianFrench
- 08-09-2022
Exceptional Biography!
So many stories, funny, sad, exciting, rewarding, inspirational!
Larry is a beautiful soul, inside and out.
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