'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent's man from London.Telling jokes for money offers an escape from the building site or the milk round.But the humour is a deadly serious business that also involves anger, pain and truth.' Financial Times 'Trevor Griffiths has not shown his brilliance as a writer more clearly than in Comedians.' Daily Telegraph