The Sound of Laughter

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The Sound of Laughter is comedian Peter Kay's autobiography, released on October 5, 2006. The book has been a huge success with 278,000 copies sold in its first day (including pre-orders). The book went straight in at #1 on both the Play.com and Amazon.co.uk book charts.

[edit] Cover

The cover of the book features Kay's head on Julie Andrews' body from The Sound of Music.

[edit] The Paul O'Grady Show

Kay has only done one promotional appearance for the book on The Paul O'Grady Show. On the show, Peter came on dressed as a nun, with a mask of his face over his ordinary face, a parody of the cover of the book. He also criticised Billy Connolly's biography, Billy, as well as making numerous jokes about his education by nuns. He said he had many nuns teaching him:

He also said that every year, he sent a valentine's card to each nun from Jesus.