I've just read Me Cheeta by James Lever, and it's made me think: why can't standup comedy be performed by monkeys? The weaknesses, but mainly strengths, of this novel are not irrelevant to the world of standup. This faux-autobiography of the simian star of the Tarzan movies starts out laugh-out loud funny and stays in that register for about 200 pages. By which time, of course, the reader is desperate for something u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM on May 1, 2011