How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb
22/09/2017 … Questions of gender conditioning have never been more pertinent… or more divisive.
2017 Books
Reviews of books about comedy, including biographies of comedians old and new, and (occasionally) books by comedians. To have a book considered for review, send a copy to Chortle, 112 Norman Road, London, E11 4RL.
Fri 22 September 2017
Mon 11 September 2017
Playboy Laughs by Patty Farmer
11/09/2017 … Think Playboy and you’re unlikely to be thinking about comedians.
Thu 07 September 2017
This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
07/09/2017 … Jeremy Hunt should be strapped in a chair, eyelids forced open Clockwork Orange-style, and be forced to read doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s memoirs from…
Tue 05 September 2017
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
05/09/2017 … The cover line of James Acaster’s collection of autobiographical stories says it all: ‘Too err is human; to err enough to fill a book isn’t.