When Channel 4 tried to teach stand-up comedy, a funny thing happened…
David Baddiel and Rev Richard Coles in Stand Up & Deliver Credit: Channel 4 Do you ever have that feeling where you’re so interested in something you can hardly hear it? It’s so gripping, your ears freeze up with a sort of overattentiveness? It’s like the opposite of glazing over with boredom (a skill with which I’ve never been blessed); more like a deafness brought on by a desperate anxiety to hear. I get it when a hotly debated answer is about to be read out in a pub quiz. I get it when a friend says, “You won’t believe who Sarah’s seeing now…”. I would have got it at the ...