It is a frank, convincing book, more shocking in its straightforwardness and apparent good humour than a more obviously manipulative account.
Whereas the Johnson-era material tended towards boozy bonhomie, Scott was often a malevolently misanthropic writer and singer, concealing a slightly terrifying rage behind apparent good humour.
Many show empty streets in Manhattan, cars crushed by trees and people braving the rain and floods in apparent high good humour.
"Actually, I've witnessed that," Rees-Evans replind in an apparent attempt at humour, prompting a burst of hilarity among the protesters.
There's Gabi's apparent sense of humour (which I'm still waiting to observe), there's Ana's... well... body (do you even have rolls when you sit, biatch?) and there's Bianka's intrigue as she reveals her connection to Kris Humphries while acknowledging to Brad that he's gonna have to work for it if he wants a piece of her.
However as the show progressed, Gaultier's consummate skill for combining tailoring and intricate, often corseted construction with humour became apparent.
Her sense of humour is apparent in her emails (she would scribble little pictures on the faxes she sent her publishers years ago at Cape), but her poems can be brutally direct.
She describes how Miles occasionally showed a kind of pleasure in life: his sense of humour was apparent, he displayed concentration at his brother's wedding and a response when his sister-in-law placed his hand on her pregnant belly.
That sense of humour is apparent even the smaller details, like the glowsticks with "Club Shit Innit" emblazoned on them that label distributed at its showcase at London's Corsica Studios earlier this year. .
But her serious roles, she insists, often contain more humour than is apparent.
