Best Stand-up Comics Brought To Book

Deborah Frances-White and Marsha Shandur, a stand-up comic and a storytelling coach respectively, sat down with some of the funniest people strutting the world's comedy stages right now and asked them about what they do. The result is a remarkable book, Off The Mic: The World's Best Stand-Up Comedians Get Serious About Comedy, to be published by Bloomsbury in Oct. If you've ever wondered what it is that makes someone a stand-up comedian, or how someone can stand there with just a microphone and captivate an audience for anything up to an hour and a half and have you falling off your seat with laughter, this is the book for you.

Among the comedians interviewed are Eddie Izzard, Sarah Millican, Jim Jeffries, Jenny Eclair, Marc Maron, Stephen K Amos, (pictured) Rich Hall, Zoe Lyons, Phill Jupitus, Gary Delaney, Mark Watson, Greg Davies and many more.