Howard Jacobson
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Cancel culture killing comedy? What a joke
Chris Rock, Jennifer Saunders and more have argued that 'wokeness' is stifling comedy. But the idea of the joke police is actually nonsense.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 10th August 2021Howard Jacobson: Offence-taking has ruined comedy
We laugh too easily today. Laughter used to be like virtue. It wasn't something we were willing to give away on a first date. Now we're anybody's. And yet, simultaneous with this great homogenising of laughter, comes the latest wave of offence-taking, washing away the transgressive constituent from comedy which as often as not is the best part of it.
Howard Jacobson, The Spectator, 5th July 2020The Establishment Club make a return appearance
The first event will take place on December 15 and the eclectic line-up includes Scott Capurro, Professor Laurie Taylor, Man Booker prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson, Scottish comic Arnold Brown and music from Niggaz with Croissants and other surprise guests. As before Keith Allen will be master of ceremonies.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th December 2013Howard Jacobson wins Wodehouse Prize for second time
Howard Jacobson's novel Zoo Time has won him the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for the second time.
BBC News, 15th May 2013Michael Frayn & Howard Jacobson up for Wodehouse prize
Michael Frayn and Howard Jacobson have been shortlisted for an award celebrating the year's funniest novels.
BBC News, 4th April 2013