Cheer Up Love by Susan Calman
26/05/2016 … Comedians have long stopped just telling jokes in favour of speaking about subjects that interest them – No 1 on that list being themselves, of course.
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26/05/2016 … Comedians have long stopped just telling jokes in favour of speaking about subjects that interest them – No 1 on that list being themselves, of course.
26/04/2016 … Few comedians' books can lay claim to being important; but Sara Pascoe's debut, Animal, falls firmly into that category.
13/03/2016 … We’ll probably never see anything like the alternative comedy revolution again.
29/01/2016 … Bridget Jones was never quite like this.
09/11/2015 … There's a strong argument to be made for stand-up being a quintessentially American art form.
26/10/2015 … 'Critics tend to lazily define me by my performance as Partridge,' Steve Coogan writes wearily in his autobiography, showing that creating one of the finest ever…
15/10/2015 … The subtitle of Jon Holmes's autobiography, 'part memoir, part explanation as to why men are so rubbish', indicates it's being pitched as a manual of modern manhood,…
10/09/2015 … Centuries of stand-up experience have been condensed into Off The Mic, with an impressive roster of comedians from both sides of the Atlantic sharing wisdom about…
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