The Humorist

2023 52 Book Challenge - 40) Written By A Comedian Well, this was certainly... something. I wouldn't recommend this to anybody who likes Russell Kane as his humour did not translate well into book format, in fact, there wasn't really much funny about this book at all. The characters weren't fleshed......more

As the 2-star mouseover states, 'it was OK.' Faint praise is damning? I expected more humor (and less uses of the word 'foetid' than the 3 or 4 instances I recall). Easy-enough of a read, but nothing super-memorable (except for the joke about the 'Bush administration,' that was pretty funny). I thin......more

I struggled with this. I love Russell Kane as a stand up, but found this book to be hugely pretentious, like he wanted us to know that he knows big words and philosophy. Shame, because I really wanted to like it.......more

The premise of The Humorist grabbed my attention - a comedy critic, gifted with savant-like understanding of humour, discovers a joke so powerful that anyone who hears it laughs themselves to death. Sadly the rest of the story isn't as interesting, the book begins at the end of the story - when the......more

You know when someone tells you a joke, but you don’t really get it, but the person who’s told you the joke is laughing at themselves, so you do the polite thing and laugh along with them. But they don’t think think you’re laughing enough, and work out you didn’t get the joke, so they explain the jo......more