Tips for building an audience during coronavirus

Written by: Dave Bibby
Published: Wednesday 18th March 2020

Comedian Dave Bibby has some thoughts on how comedy performers can survive whilst the country is in lockdown due to coronavirus...

At the risk of sounding like an Edinburgh Fringe comedian desperately aiming for Best Newcomer, I am going to start my article like this...

WHEN MY GRANDAD DIED (stay with me) he didn't want to be buried in what he thought was a depressing place, like a cemetery. He was the funniest man I knew and he wanted his ashes spread in a happy place: the beach.

Now, the beach in Barrow-in-Furness isn't the most beautiful beach in the...