He starts with a series of hacky jokes, and the audience plays along. At least he's not at the start of the novel, which takes place during one long comedy set in the Israeli city of Netanya. Great comedians have made enduring art and even changed society all bad comedians have ever done is made people hurry out of a bar with their gin-and-tonics half finished.ĭov Greenstein, the comic at the center of David Grossman's unsettling and mesmerizing A Horse Walks into a Bar, isn't quite that bad. There's really nothing worse than the awkwardness that ensues when a comic bombs in front of a restive audience at an open-mic night, half of whom have been dragged there against their will in the first place. How?īad stand-up comedy is, for everyone involved, a special kind of hell. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Horse Walks into a Bar Author David Grossman
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