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End of the Pier review " Les Dennis plays a washed-up standup in Blackpool comedy by Brian Logan

Park theatre, LondonThe politics of comedy is examined through the prism of faltering father and son comedians played by Les Dennis and Blake Harrison'I realised why I never liked jokes," says a character in Danny Robins's new play, channelling comedian-of-the-moment Hannah Gadsby. "It's because they're almost always based on a lie." So should standups make people laugh, or tell their truth? And what if the standup i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM on July 17, 2018

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