Different Times by David Stubbs
02/08/2023 … It’s an ambitious scope for one book to cover the entire history of British comedy, even ‘just’ the last century or so.
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02/08/2023 … It’s an ambitious scope for one book to cover the entire history of British comedy, even ‘just’ the last century or so.
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28/07/2023 … Understandably, there's a sizeable part of the publishing industry devoted to well-meaning cancer memoirs.
26/06/2023 … What a good idea for a book… but how terribly executed.
23/06/2023 … Like most women in comedy, American stand-up Jena Friedman tires of the ‘inane, distracting and sexist’ journalists’ question: What’s it…
18/05/2023 … Such is the distinctiveness of Steven Wright's stand-up – the bone-dry, deadpan delivery and the philosophical enquiry of his jokes – that…
27/02/2023 … It will come as little surprise to those who know Fern Brady’s comedy that her memoir is brutally, sometimes uncomfortably, honest.
12/12/2022 … Twenty years ago, Richard Herring had a hit with Talking Cock, a stand-up show all about the penis that was licensed around the world and spawned a successful…
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