{"product_id":"a-comedian-in-lockdown-9781399922401","title":"A Comedian in lockdown","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Redmond\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Michael Redmond\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Michael Redmond\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Humorous - Black Humor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Comedian in lockdown.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Comedian in lockdown is a regular Diary I wrote during lockdown. It includes humorous observations, and reflections of my life during that time and freshly written comedy routines which I was not able to perform in front of an audience but which also work in a written form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther pages are devoted to my recollections of starting out as a comedian in London in the late eighties, having left Dublin with just one joke. Despite the initial paucity of material when I arrived in London, I explain how I still somehow managed to acquire a stand up spot a year later on a modish Stand Up show on TV at the time called \" Saturday Night Live \".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Diary also notates stories about my regular visits to my local supermarket and my ongoing awkward conversations with the resident butcher in the supermarket who could be described as ' pathologically ' anti-vegetarian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI highlight my predicament with a busker, who performs regularly outside the supermarket, as a result of the time I accidentally dropped a  20 note into his bucket which fell from my hand at the same time I was dropping some coins into it, and my clumsy attempt to retrieve the  20.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Diary will further feature a number of humorous photographs, an area of creative output I have discovered during the long months of lockdown. The photos received huge responses when I posted them on my twitter account...@redmondmichael1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearer the end of the Diary, there is a regular update about a possible romantic attachment to a female neighbour who lives directly across the street from me. Our initial contact stems from when we were both cleaning our windows at the same time and I mistook her hand movement on her window as a wave towards me. The early stages of the possible relationship are defined by conversations conducted across the airwaves of our street from our sitting room windows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Redmond","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45506538176663,"sku":"9781399922401","price":639.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781399922401.webp?v=1767924584","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-comedian-in-lockdown-9781399922401","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}