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.
Review of the Young Ones and Bottom star's frank and entertaining memoir
09/11/2023 … It’s been more than 40 years since Adrian Edmondson first tore through the world of light entertainment with the rest of the alternative comedy cohort.
05/10/2023 … Most followers of comedy must surely know London Hughes’s story by now, since she’s spoken about it often enough in interviews and on her socials.
28/09/2023 … Shame is a complex emotion.
© Andy Hollingworth Review of Adam Bloom's 'in-depth guide to the art of stand-up comedy'
19/09/2023 … Chances are that when you’re watching a comedian in full flow, you won’t be thinking about see-saws, balloons, balls and cubes.
05/09/2023 … After Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams died in 2001 at the unfairly young age of 49, his family donated 67 boxes of his archives –…
Review of his History Of British Comedy
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.
Comedian's account of living with undiagnosed ADHD
31/07/2023 … The very subtitle of Scatterbrain – ‘how I finally got off the ADHD rollercoaster and became the owner of a very tidy sock drawer’ –…
Review of the comedian's memoir about her late sister
28/07/2023 … Understandably, there's a sizeable part of the publishing industry devoted to well-meaning cancer memoirs.
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