Mark Critch Book Review
Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir by Mark Critch
From Poo-pills to Rex Murphy to Cat Fud — A Book Review
“He’s not athletic,” Dad said.
But he can write! A grand book. Good-natured, warm-hearted and laugh-out-loud funny. And, if comedy comes out of anger, a few Chaplinesque kicks to assorted well-deserving backsides.
Mark’s SON OF A CRITCH A Childish Newfoundland Memoir is my choice of the Read Of The Season. He takes us from almost drowning and his first day of school through the long years to High School and his first comedy group.
Maybe a bit too much about School, Mark, for this ol’ curmudgeon, and not enough of those glorious golden Summers growing up that gave us freedom, friendships and summer wages.
But you had the bal — I mean bravura — to take on episodes and times I’d druther forget.
Folks, you’ve gotta read it to find out how “Poo-pills” got him his first big laugh — a life-changing moment for Mark. And he’ll answer the question all good memoirs should answer: “Who knit ya?”
You will meet the people he met on the way, even a young Rex Murphy who had supper with them when appearing on Mark’s father’s radio show on VOCM. And the day his Mom took them to see the visiting Pope John Paul II and they ended up being chased by Mounties and Canadian soldiers.
And the time that Mark and the rest of Cat Fud found themselves in Her Majesty’s Penitentiary (HMP) in St. John’s, Newfoundland — scary time, b’y, until Mark discovered some of his old Catholic school buddies incarcerated there…
So there’s my Book Review.
Mark’s book is going on my Shelf of Honour with Mack Sennett’s KING OF COMEDY, Dave Broadfoot’s OLD ENOUGH TO SAY WHAT I WANT and GROUCHO AND ME, written by (of all people) Julius “Groucho” Marx.
Yup, Five Stars!
SON OF A CRITCH A Childish Newfoundland Memoir is published by VIKING, an imprint of Penguin Canada and is available at your favourite Local Bookstore. For some reason it’s printed in the U.S.A.
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