Book Review

Nailing It! Tales from the Comedy Frontier: Memoir laced with rage and dry humour

In his new book, American comedian Rich Hall recounts how he has found a more receptive audience on this side of the Atlantic than in his home country

Rich Hall: the American comedian’s memoir is a characteristically wry, self-deprecating assertion from one of the hardest-working comics in the business

The American country singer Ray Wylie Hubbard tells us that the world consists of day people and night people. “And it's the night people's job/ To get the day people’s money,” he sings sardonically on Rabbit. In Nailing It!, comedian Rich Hall quotes Hubbard approvingly – and goes one further. Hall believes that he was made for show business because it’s a profession that allows him to spend 23 hours and 40 minutes of each ...