Sit-Down Comedy: Stand-ups Swap the Stage for the Page

by Malcolm Hardee (Editor), John Fleming (Editor)

To satisfy the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people who pay good money to see stand-up every year, Malcolm Hardee ('the comedian's comedian' WHSmith Online; 'a national monument' The Guardian) presents a comedy club on the page with a bill featuring the glitterati of British stand-up comedy. We let the famous names and new talents alike try out their written humour and their only brief is to make us laugh. We plan to make the book an annual event, and are sure it will soon become the world's largest virtual comedy club. Contributors include: Keith Allen, Jo Brand, Simon Day, Jenny -clair, Boothby Graffoe, Ricky Grover, Jeremy Hardy, Hattie Hayridge, John Hegley, Jeff Innocent, Mark Lamarr, Chris Lynam, Simon Munnery, Rob Newman, Mark Steel, Arthur Smith, Jim Tavare, Mark Thomas

Genres: Humor

238 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2003

Reviews

[Colin Murtagh · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with most anthologies, this one is a bit of a mixed bag. There's nothing particularly bad in it, but on the other hand, there's nothing that will really jump out at you. There's nothing thematically or stylistically to bind it together the way that, say the dead funny anthology does. This lack is probably what makes the collection feel disjointed.