Pop Music = Comedy, and vice versa
My love for pop and my love for comedy seem like the same thing. How about you?
When I was a young man doing publicity for Barry Trotter, I’d often say quite truthfully, “I only became a comedy writer because The Beatles weren’t hiring.” This may seem like a strange thing to say—I don’t think many 32-year-olds today consider the two fields adjacent, much less the same thing. But for a time, a generation or so, music and comedy were…
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