Many Days of Daisy May

Book excerpt: If we see a joke for a moment or so, we will laugh wherever we are, right? Most people express their feelings immediately, whether they feel like crying or angry. There will be no one who does not like to laugh. All sorrows have a veil over that one emotion. But to make others laugh, it’s really a challenge. The effort behind it is beyond description. No one sees or tries to know the toil of those who consider it as a passion or profession. Each of us may rely on humorous shows to forget our sorrows for a while or to convince ourselves that we have forgotten it all. But we know that it’s all just a shield to cover our unhappiness. We do not recognize the minds of those who try to make us laugh by presenting those comic shows on which we depend, or they don’t like to inform us. Probably there are the ones who perform with the accompaniment of tears on the inside and sometimes with tremendous joy. But when we see it as a way to hide our anguish they also probably think of those moments as a cover to keep their throbbing away, from appearing in front of the audience as well. There are many who take it as an opportunity for enjoyment in the happiness of the mind. Then there is the category of people who copy their own experiences on the screen. It may contain all feelings. When they present in front of the spectators all that they have experienced in the background of pain and tears in their real life, it often spreads laughter in viewers. Although they were in pain those days, they later found comfort in the fact that it spread humor to others. Or they may try to alleviate those thoughts by thinking that the problems were so trivial. This book presents before the readers few snippets of the life of an actress and writer Daisy May Cooper, who wrote a memoir Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her, in the era of lockdown, quarantine of the COVID 19 scenario, which has stunned the entire world since December 2019, to cover the frustration, about the days of her comedic life, her hidden theme within it, her sufferings and her subsequent successes. Daisy May Cooper and her brother Charlie, who were subjected to many hardships in childhood, created their experiences in the form of numerous shows. Most notable among them was the British mockumentary sitcom This Country, which aired on their unity on February 8, 2017. Booklovers can understand the small representation of reality behind the presentation of comic shows and the life of people who make others laugh through this book in a little way. Daisy May Cooper is just one of many.