The Secret Reviewer #63: Honest to Goodness
Every month our clandestine critic reveals the murky truths behind that infamous trade, and live comedy generally. This month: Do we need to believe in a stand-up's emotional displays?
Call it clickbait for comedy nerds but last weekend my eye was caught by the first line of a review in The Guardian. "Hard to trust a stand-up comedian, isn't it?" the culture writer Stuart Heritage began.
"Part of the job - the main part, really - is trying to convince people that you're delivering your material spontaneously, " he continued, the opening para eventually concluding that "an audience needs to...
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