Dependence Day - Robert Newman

Robert Newman’s first novel is firmly entrenched in the writer and comedian’s bohemian days of the early 1990s, before the haircut that led to the more satirical political leanings of his more recent works. Newman is most remembered as the former double-act partner of David Baddiel in the successful BBC series ‘The Mary Whitehouse Experience’ and ‘Newman and Baddiel in Pieces,’ even though this primarily consisted of two very different stand-up comedians doing their very different material in turn, rather than a truly collaborative effort. Following his rebellious nature as the king of ‘the new rock-and-roll’ that comedy was being optimistically billed as at the time, ...  Read the complete review