Standup's growing popularity has seen it emerge from pubs and clubs to grander venues from the Nottingham Arena to the Albert Hall. Now the comedy must develop to fit themYou know all those fringe theatre shows that reduce epic stories to pint-sized performances? I'm thinking of Ben Hur at BAC, or Spymonkey's Moby Dick " the joke, or chutzpah, behind which is that the material is wildly out of proportion with the lo-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AM on May 3, 2011