Matthew Dooley
Books by Matthew Dooley
“I used to work with this theatre director called Ken Campbell, and he used to say that the secret of comedy is silly plus sensible equals funny, while silly plus silly equals stupid. Flake, for me, is the ultimate silly plus sensible equals funny. Because it’s ice cream trucks warring about whose space is whose, who should be selling ice cream on what land, that kind of stuff. Territory war, essentially. There’s so much heart in it.” Read more...
Pippa Evans, Comedians & Humorist
Interviews where books by Matthew Dooley were recommended
The Funniest Books of 2020, recommended by Pippa Evans
Comedy offers escapism and a way of processing our emotions during stressful times, says the comedian Pippa Evans—who this year served as a judge for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Here she talks us through the books shortlisted for the title of the funniest book of 2020, and explains how she found herself researching pig deliveries.
