End of the Pier review " Les Dennis plays a washed-up standup in Blackpool comedy
Park theatre, LondonThe politics of comedy is examined through the prism of faltering father and son comedians played by Les Dennis and Blake Harrison'I realised why I never liked jokes," says a character in Danny Robins's new play, channelling comedian-of-the-moment Hannah Gadsby. "It's because they're almost always based on a lie." So should standups make people laugh, or tell their truth? And what if the standup i…