Tragically, book about comedian just isn’t funny

It takes some guts to write a novel in which your narrator and central character is a comedian, for the simple reason that to pull the character off, you need to make sure they’re funny. Even if the novel is a parody or you just intend to send up your comedian, you need to make them so unfunny that it’s funny. Either way, funniness is mandatory. What you don’t want are jokes like this: ‘What do you get if you write a book about a comedian who isn’t funny? What Will People Think by Sara Hamdan.