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#283 - Minor Key Comedy, Same Old Larkin and Frank Skinner

Elis James and John Robins

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Howl and People Have Thought

I've got letters from Philip Larkin that he wrote to my grandma. Correspondence from the whole university library, which I got framed at home. A letter from George Formby's fiancee thanking the priest for the sensitive way he'd handled his funeral. He has a Jack Kerouac Sign Book and an Alan Ginsburg Sign Book. And a William S. Boris Sign Book. My show this year is called Howl and People Have Thought it was based around that poem. But it's not. It's sort of, I guess, a similar sort of vibe, but it's not sort of problematic figure. You don't want to delve too far into his belief. No,

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