How To Be Champion by Sarah Millican
10/10/2017 … Sarah Millican’s first book falls partway between biography and self-help guide.
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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.
Tue 10 October 2017
Fri 22 September 2017
How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb
22/09/2017 … Questions of gender conditioning have never been more pertinent… or more divisive.
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.
Thu 13 July 2017
Emergency Questions by Richard Herring
13/07/2017 … Regular listeners to Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast will require no further introduction to his ‘emergency questions’.
Wed 12 July 2017
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
12/07/2017 … Eddie Izzard thinks himself ‘a naturally boring person’, which is a needless modesty for someone who has always seemed to defy conventional thinking.
Fri 26 May 2017
That's Your Lot, by Limmy
26/05/2017 … That’s Your Lot is an apt title for Limmy’s second book of short stories, as many of the tales stop abruptly once they've floated an intriguing idea…