In her podcast, Cariad Lloyd talks to other comics about death, a subject that standups rarely deal with directly on stageUntil this year's Edinburgh fringe, where comedians grappled on stage with personal trauma as never before, scepticism was rife about the so-called "dead dad" show. Meat-and-potatoes comics used the phrase to cat-call standups who made self-consciously emotional shows with cathartic last acts, imp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM on December 2, 2016