Stand Up Barry Goldman

All Id 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.Barry Goldman is a sensitive boy. Hes being primed to run the family business but has discovered a talent for making audiences laugh at his silly poems.At last he has found something that might make him attractive to girls - in particular Harriet Fink - but theres not much call for delicate earnest poets in the 1970s comedy world of hot-panted dolly birds and battle-axe mothers-in-law.Then one night he sees Kris Dean on a stage in Edinburgh and understands that the world of comedy is about to change forever.Stand Up Barry Goldman - like Elena Ferrante but with jokes - is the debut novel of David J. 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 worlds first Jewish heavy metal band GunsnMoses.Funny and fascinating a lovely tale Jo BrandPowerfully funny often moving... Dave has created the Jewish Adrian Mole of alternative comedy. David QuantickIn the last anxiety-making days of lockdown Dave made me laugh out loud from the first few pages. This novel about the world of stand-up comedy is funnier than the real thing. Linda GrantEvokes all the tension of doing your first Edinburgh Fringe but without incurring the life-changing overdraft Jack Dee