STANDUP COMEDY FROM ANCIENT GREECE.

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.