Amstell stands out from the crowd with memoir mash-up

NON-FICTION: Help, By Simon Amstell, Square Peg, €16.10

If you know Simon Amstell mainly as the former host of Never Mind The Buzzcocks on BBC2, his stand-up routines will probably come as something of a surprise. On Buzzcocks, Amstell was waspish, sharp and often plain cruel: he caused Preston from The Ordinary Boys (remember Preston from The Ordinary Boys? No? Not to worry) to storm off the show by snarkily reading extracts from ...