Books by Andrew McConnell Stott

Andrew Stott was born in 1969 and grew up in the south of England. For many years he was a stand-up comedian. He performed with Al Murray, Ricky Gervais, Stewart Lee, Daniel Kitson and most of the prominent stand-up comics of the late 90s. Andrew is now Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Buffalo, where he specialises in comedy, popular culture and the history of the theatre from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In 2005 he wrote Comedy(Routledge), an academic study of the art, and has since become a comedy pundit, offering commentaries to New York's WNYC radio and Slate magazine.