What the F*** Did I Do Last Night?: The memoir of an accidental comedian

At 17, Rowland Rivron had already fulfilled his ambitions as a professional drummer gigging in London’s West End. All that changed in the 1980s when he fell in with the new and anarchic ‘alternative comedians’. Alongside Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Alexei Sayle and others, he appeared in such culturally defining shows as The Comic Strip Presents, The Young Ones, The Tube and of course French&Saunders, where he appeared as the charismatic Duane, one half of the inimitable Raw Sex.

But the rea...