*ONLINE* Andrew Hankinson at Chortle Comedy Book Festival
Join Andrew Hankinson live online as part of Chortle Comedy Book Festival on Friday 20 November at 9pm, where he will be discussing his new book Don't applaud. Either laugh or don't. (At the Comedy Cllear.). In Don't applaud, Hankinson speaks to the owner, comedians, and audience members at New York's famous Comedy Cellar to create a conversation about the perils, pride, and prejudice of modern comedy.
Tickets are £8. To reserve your place head to the festival's website here.
Don’t applaud. Either laugh or don’t. (At the Comedy Cellar.)
This is a book about three things:
1. A room called the Comedy Cellar.
2. Who gets to speak in that room.
3. What they get to say.
The Comedy Cellar is a tiny basement club in New York’s Greenwich Village. Run according to the principles of its owners, the Dworman family, it became a safe place for stand-ups to take risks and experiment. Superstar comedians such as Amy Schumer, Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, and Louis CK became regulars, celebrities started to hang out, the club hosted debates, and everyone was encouraged to argue at its back table. Then the Comedy Cellar ended up on the frontline of the…
