Be Funny Or Die
02/04/2024 … It’s an unwritten rule that any book about comedy starts with the EB White quote, refined by Barry Cryer, that analysing a joke is like dissecting a frog,…
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.
02/04/2024 … It’s an unwritten rule that any book about comedy starts with the EB White quote, refined by Barry Cryer, that analysing a joke is like dissecting a frog,…
10/01/2024 … Like it or not, comedy finds itself on the front line of the culture wars.
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.
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 –…
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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