What the Dickins! A symposium of the low life
Penguin, 179p., $5.95
Biography
Yeah, But Is It Funny?
by George Sprod •
Humour is much too serious business to be left to humourists; it is up to others to find it funny, while the comic goes about his trade with desperate lugubrity, Thus humour that goes out of its way to be funny falls flat: dryness is all.
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What the Dickins! A symposium of the low life
by Barry Dickins
Penguin, 179p., $5.95
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