Stand Up Barry Goldman

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All I'd wanted for as long as I could remember was a woman to love a soulmate to live with in contentment for the rest of my days: friend lover companion mother to our children. Time was running out: I was getting old. Next year I would be eighteen.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Barry Goldman is a sensitive boy. He's being primed to run the family business but has discovered a talent for making audiences laugh at his silly poems.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>At last he has found something that might make him attractive to girls - in particular Harriet Fink - but there's not much call for delicate earnest poets in the 1970s comedy world of hot-panted dolly birds and battle-axe mothers-in-law.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then one night he sees Kris Dean on stage and understands that the world of comedy is about to change forever.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stand Up Barry Goldman - like Elena Ferrante but with jokes - is the debut novel of Dave Cohen stand-up comedian and writer best known as the creator of dozens of songs for multi-BAFTA winning hit TV show Horrible Histories and less well known as lead singer in the world's first Jewish heavy metal band Guns'n'Moses</span></p><p></p>