RHLSTP Book Club 100 - Joel Morris
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
British Comedy Guide
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Book Club #100 - Be Funny or Die - In our 100th Book Club podcast Richard talks to comedy writer Joel Morris about his frog dissecting book, Be Funny Or Die, which promises to reveal the secret of comedy and does a pretty decent job of doing so. They discuss what makes a good and a terrible catchphrase, how no comedian can make everyone laugh and why they shouldn’t want to, the tribal nature of comedy, whether comedy is by definition offensive to someone, the power of shared laughter in an inappropriate situation, how to let everyone in on in jokes and much more,.
Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/be-funny-or-die-how-comedy-works-and-why-it-matters-joel-morris/7606143?ean=9781800183100
And the audiobook here - https://www.amazon.com/Be-Funny-Die-Comedy-Matters/dp/B0CQ3PT4BY
See Rich's stand-up tour Can I Have My Ball Back - https://richardherring.com/ballback/
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| 0:08.7 | The Can I Have My Boobak tour is back on the road this week. |
| 0:11.7 | We're in London on the 7th in the |
| 0:14.0 | Bluesbury Theatre and Leicester Square Theatre on the 9th. I've got quite a lot of |
| 0:18.0 | tickets to sell for both of those so if you're in London please come along |
| 0:21.0 | then the 13th in Cambridge a few tickets left for that one. |
| 0:25.0 | Lester on the 14th, Leeds on the 15th, Solford on the 16th, Newcastle on the 17th, |
| 0:31.4 | which is sold out on the website but I think there might be a few more |
| 0:33.8 | tickets to release. So do come along if you want to see me talk about my balls and one of them |
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