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’.
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.
13/07/2017 … Regular listeners to Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast will require no further introduction to his ‘emergency questions’.
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.
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…
04/05/2017 … Oh no! Not another arena-filling comedian with a quasi-academic tome about neuroscience.
04/01/2017 … Trevor Noah’s rise through the international comedy circuit to become host of The Daily Show has been swift.
19/12/2016 … With A Horse Walks Into A Bar, Israeli writer David Grossman accomplishes the seemingly impossible and transposes an entire stand-up show into a novel.
01/12/2016 … Released without much fanfare, at least this side of the Irish Sea, Jason Byrne’s first book is an evocative memoir of what it was like to grow up in a working-class…
08/11/2016 … Bill Bailey isn’t, as it happens, the first bearded comedian to have written a bird book.
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