Richard Pryor: Furious Cool by David & Joe Henry
25/04/2014 … If one comedian was deserving of the epithet of ‘legendary’, it would be Richard Pryor.
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25/04/2014 … If one comedian was deserving of the epithet of ‘legendary’, it would be Richard Pryor.
31/03/2014 … He’s called it Comedy Snapshot, but Steve Best’s book is actually a pretty comprehensive portrait of the comrades in laughs that make up the current comedy…
04/03/2014 … If there’s one essential piece of advice missing from the new how-to-do-the-Edinburgh festival book Cracking The Fringe, it’s ‘you should probably buy another…
03/02/2014 … There are a lot of books that purport to tell you how to write and perform stand-up, and there are a lot of books from famous comedians telling you how they rose…
02/01/2014 … It seems they give autobiographies to just about anyone these days.
24/11/2013 … Al Murray, by his own admission, is obsessed with the Second World War; his bookshelves groaning under the weight of volumes about the conflict.
21/11/2013 … Stewart Francis: Pun Direction‘Over 500 of his greatest gags – and four of his crap ones’ boasts the cover line – and that’s exactly what you get - the…
19/11/2013 … This is, by all definitions of the word, a substantial book.
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