Jonathan Grant on Reading the Room - Book Club

Jonathan Grant on Reading the Room - Book Club

From Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP) by Sky Potato, Go Faster Stripe and Fuzz Productions

May 29, 2026 · 49 min · Episode 181

About this episode

Richard Herring interviews comedy historian Jonathan Grant about his book on the state of stand-up comedy in the 21st century.

RHLSTP Book Club #181 - Reading The Room - Rich talks to comedy historian and former stand up and agent, Jonathan Grant about his much needed work about the state of stand up comedy in the 21st Century. They chat about Jonathan’s reasons for writing the book, who he talked to, the difficulty of summing up two decades worth of stand up, how we’re at a place of opportunity and variety in stand-up but how doing the actual job is being squeezed, whether comedians come from doing proper jobs like in the old days, how online comedy can be a boon or a burden and how lock-down and the internet has led to intergenerational cross fertilisation (mainly in comedy terms). Plus the wonder that is Chris Evans (not that one) and gofasterstripe.com Buy the book here - https://gofasterstripe.com/cgi-bin/w.cgi?showfull=69222 SUPPORT THE SHOW! See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNEL Become a badger and see extra content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE Audio mix by Ben Evans (NTO) Thanks to Chris Evans (NTO) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Richard Herring

Guest: Jonathan Grant

Topics covered

  • stand-up comedy
  • comedy history
  • 21st century comedy
  • online comedy
  • intergenerational comedy

Keywords

  • stand-up comedy
  • comedy historian
  • Jonathan Grant
  • 21st century
  • online comedy
  • lock-down
  • intergenerational

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