<p><b>Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)<\/b><\/p><p>One Sunday afternoon in a tiny postage-stamp garden, James Mullinger made the life-altering decision to give it all up: the London pubs, bustling city streets, and a flourishing comedy career. But where in the world would he and his partner raise a family? The English countryside? Toronto? New York?<\/p><p>Hmmm. How about St. John \u2026 sorry, Saint John, New Brunswick?<\/p><p><i>Brit Happens<\/i> chronicles Mullinger\u2019s lifetime of adventures, from his beginnings as a shy and nervous kid collecting comedy records at the neighborhood video store, to rising through the ranks of <i>GQ<\/i> magazine and meeting his personal idols Jerry Seinfeld and Paul McCartney, to imagining the possibility of another life in Canada. From the highs and lows of London to beginning anew in New Brunswick, <i>Brit Happens<\/i> tells gut-busting stories of success and failure and the unpredictable grind of stand-up comedy. It also offers a laugh-out-loud look at life in Atlantic Canada from the region\u2019s funniest outsider-turned-local.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<p><b>Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)<\/b><\/p><p>One Sunday afternoon in a tiny postage-stamp garden, James Mullinger made the life-altering decision to give it all up: the London pubs, bustling city streets, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":109080,"template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[15894,16674,17208,24398,14989],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64898","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","5":"product_language-eng-fr","6":"product_subjects-entertainment-performing-arts-fr","7":"product_subjects-biography-autobiography-2-fr","8":"biblio_share_tag-biography-autobiography-entertainment-performing-arts-fr","9":"product_cat-spring-books-fr","10":"product_cat-the-gift-of-human-stories-fr","11":"product_cat-book-awards-2023-fr","12":"product_cat-holiday-gift-guide-2024-fr","13":"product_cat-holiday-2022-fr","14":"entry","16":"first","17":"instock","18":"taxable","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n