The Material

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A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up comedy in this fluid, inventive and often, yes, funny (The Spectator) novel Sinuous, intelligent. Literary Review Entertaining and perceptive. The Chicago Tribune The Material is like a table in the back of the club surrounded by comics trying to make each other laugh. Vulture Can comedy be taught? Someone, at some point, seemed to think so. The Chicago Stand-Up MFA program has enrolled young comedians for nearly a decade. Its teachers and students all know how bits work in theory, at least. They know that there's a line between sharp and cruel, that sad becomes funny at the right angle, that the worst is the best, the truth is the worst, and any moment of your life that isn't a punch line will either get you to a punch line or force you to be one.