STANDUP COMEDY FROM ANCIENT GREECE.

March 2, 2009 at 8:32 PM · History, Uncategorized

STANDUP COMEDY FROM ANCIENT GREECE. In her review of Stephen Halliwell’s GREEK LAUGHTER in the Times Literary Supplement for February 20, Mary Beard writes about THE PHILOGELOS, a collection of Greek jokes from the fourth century A.D. She tells about an English standup comedian doing material from THE PHILOGELOS. You can see some of the performance here.