'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent's man from London. Telling jokes for money offers an escape from the building site or the milk round. But the humour is a deadly serious business that also involves anger, pain and truth.' Financial Times
'Trevor Griffiths has not shown his brilliance as a writer more clearly than in Comedians.' Daily Telegraph
- ISBN10 0571049869
- ISBN13 9780571049868
- Publish Date 5 February 1979 (first published 26 January 1976)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 July 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 72
- Language English