Comedy newcomers - Grouchy Club Podcast 55

“Comedy is often a defence mechanism... You learn a way or survival and, if it works for you, you carry on. And, if you are a comic on the circuit now, you carry on whether it’s working or not.”With Kate Copstick away in Kenya, John Fleming talks to therapist turned comedy promoter Arlene Greenhouse and journalist turned stand-up comic Ariane Sherine about...The change in the UK comedy circuit over the last 13 years. Dirty sexual comedy. Jeremy Corbyn’s eroticism. The creation of a new comedy circuit. Are therapy and comedy the same thing? And the chance for John of naked-from-the-waist video stardom.http://www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883John Fleming posts occasional blogs at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com