When critics analyse a standup routine it's considered pedantic and joyless what's wrong with being serious about comedy?Theatre critics are seldom called pedants for analysing how a stage effect is achieved. If an art writer critiques someone's brushstroke well, they're just doing their job, right? But when I reviewed Jimmy Carr the other week, commenters below the line were quick to remind me I'd committed the ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:46AM on June 2, 2014