Joe Tracini: Ten Things I Hate About Me
It’s about mental illness, but it’s NOT DEPRESSING.
Hi, hope you’re ok. My show is about hope. It’s also about mental illness, good liars, bad ideas, Lorraine Kelly and a gang lord forcing me to hold a raw chicken. But it’s mostly about hope.
I live with a complex mental illness called borderline personality disorder (BPD) and I started writing this, about that, in January 2020. It’s been a long 6 years, but I’m finally here. Please come. I wrote it for you.
UK Tour Dates 2026
18 May 2026
City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds
28 Jun 2026
“This isn’t just stand-up – it’s an emotional ride, wrapped up in wit, charm and the occasional 7 foot man with a raw chicken!”
British Theatre Guide“A tender mix of comedy and storytelling where the humour is soft, unhurried and all the more powerful for it. Ultimately, this is a show about hope and why it’s absolutely worth holding on to.”
The List“The honesty is startling, and potent. IT IS UTTERLY NOT S**T’”
Dawn French“Very funny and sad and utterly true”
Miriam Margolyes
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Joe Tracini is an actor, author, presenter and comedian and British champion magician.
He’s starred in many TV shows including Hollyoaks, Coming of Age and The Great Outdoors, and he’s the host of the BAFTA winning The Dengineers on CBBC.
He’s been acting like an idiot and talking about his broken brain on Twitter for a while now, and since March 2020, when there were suddenly a lot more people with a lot less on, his videos have been viewed over 90 million times.
The BAFTA-nominated Channel 4 documentary Me and the Voice in My Head explored the frequently debilitating effects that Joe’s Borderline Personality Disorder has on every aspect of his life. His book, Ten Things I Hate About Me is a Sunday Times Bestseller.
His top 3 favourite things are food, sleep and avoiding social interactions, and he has a deep hatred of writing about himself in the third person.