55 min
BOOKSELLING & STAND-UP with Ben Pope, comedian and bookshop manager WIT LIT: the funny books podcast
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“’Humour’ is maybe the worst word in the English language”
Wit Lit is a podcast about funny books - so who better to hear from than a comedian who is also a bookseller? That’s right, it’s only Mr BEN POPE - crowd favourite and manager at The Review Bookshop in Peckham - recommending his favourite funny books.
We discuss silly book titles, writer’s voices versus comedian’s personas, how the brain can short-circuit ‘funny’ and ‘good’, and how War and Peace is just lots and lots of Tweets lined up next to each other.
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How to find Ben: He runs a monthly stand-up show called FRESH CHESTNUTS at the Betsey Trotwood pub in Farringdon! You should go! He can be found talking on Twitter here. He can be found managing a bookshop here. And on his very nice website here.
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Boooooks we talk about:
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
Ayoade on Ayoade by Richard Ayoade
Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson
Something Fishy by P G Wodehouse
Lustre by Raven Leilani
Anthropology by Dan Rhodes
In addition: Stewart Lee, Tim Key, Ducks, Newburyport, and Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
May we recommend purchasing your books from an independent bookshop like, oh I don’t know, The Review Bookshop.
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How to find me: on Twitter @lily_lindon or on Instagram @bookymcbookface
“’Humour’ is maybe the worst word in the English language”
Wit Lit is a podcast about funny books - so who better to hear from than a comedian who is also a bookseller? That’s right, it’s only Mr BEN POPE - crowd favourite and manager at The Review Bookshop in Peckham - recommending his favourite funny books.
We discuss silly book titles, writer’s voices versus comedian’s personas, how the brain can short-circuit ‘funny’ and ‘good’, and how War and Peace is just lots and lots of Tweets lined up next to each other.
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How to find Ben: He runs a monthly stand-up show called FRESH CHESTNUTS at the Betsey Trotwood pub in Farringdon! You should go! He can be found talking on Twitter here. He can be found managing a bookshop here. And on his very nice website here.
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Boooooks we talk about:
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
Ayoade on Ayoade by Richard Ayoade
Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson
Something Fishy by P G Wodehouse
Lustre by Raven Leilani
Anthropology by Dan Rhodes
In addition: Stewart Lee, Tim Key, Ducks, Newburyport, and Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
May we recommend purchasing your books from an independent bookshop like, oh I don’t know, The Review Bookshop.
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How to find me: on Twitter @lily_lindon or on Instagram @bookymcbookface
55 min