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Stand-Up or Die Andy de la Tour

Stand-Up or Die By Andy de la Tour

Stand-Up or Die by Andy de la Tour

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Summary

Actor and founder of the British alternative comedy scene, Andy de la Tour, turns back time and takes up the challenge of becoming a stand up comedian in New York.

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Stand-Up or Die by Andy de la Tour

Originally part of the UK alternative comedy scene, Andy de la Tour spent many years on the circuit, performing with the likes of Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, Alexei Sayle and French and Saunders. After a 20-year break from stand-up he returned to New York City, the genre's spiritual home, to start all over again in the back-rooms and dive bars of the Big Apple. This is one man's journey through New York's underground comedy scene. From 'Rubber Bullets' in lower Manhattan to the 'Hot Tub' in Brooklyn, Andy takes the stand. Can he make them laugh? Will New Yorkers stomach his outsider's take on Obama, the Tea Party and 9/11? Andy's a long way from home and dying is not an option.

Stand-Up or Die Reviews

'I was born in 1968. For my generation of London-circuit stand-up comedians there was a Year Zero attitude to 1979. Holy texts found in a skip out of the back of the offices of the London listings magazine Time Out tell us how, with a few incendiary post-punk punchlines, Alexei Sayle, Arnold Brown, Dawn French and Andy de la Tour destroyed British comedy hegemony of Upper-Class Oxbridge Satirical Songs and Working-Class Bow Tie-Sporting Racism. Then, with the fragments of these smashed idols and their own bare hands, they built pioneering stand-up clubs The Comedy Store and The Comedy Strip. In doing so they founded the egalitarian Polytechnic of Laughs that is today's comedy establishment.' Stewart Lee 'Andy de la Tour deserves a noble place in the history of stand-up. He was one of the fringe theatre performers who were there at the foundation of Alternative Cabaret as the Seventies turned into the Eighties, alongside the likes of Alexei Sayle and Tony Allen... De La Tour nails the [Comedy circuit's] problems exactly, and with some authority - while the book maintains a brisk, entertaining read... anyone with interest in the workings of the live comedy circuit would be a fool not to get it.' Chortle.com

About Andy de la Tour

Andy de la Tour: Andy is a writer, director, actor and stand-up comedian. He has appeared in scores of stage plays, TV dramas and films, including Notting Hill and 44 Inch Chest. His plays have been produced throughout the UK and also further afield, from the US, to Serbia and Panama.

Table of Contents

1. Tourists on a Visa -Waiver 9 2. 'Are you ready for some comedy???' 13 3. Stand -up Comedy Is Not Fun 18 4. Nine Shows Over Three Nights 27 5. An Evening of Lesbian Stand -up 33 6. Downtown For My Inaugural Gig 43 7. Before I Morphed Into Jim Davidson 53 8. Too Many Shows Chasing Too Few Punters 64 9. 9/11 Was Off Limits 74 10. I Had Actually Done It 85 An Extra Bit 90

Additional information

GOR006181984
9781849433945
1849433941
Stand-Up or Die by Andy de la Tour
Andy de la Tour
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20130123
100
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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