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Chair for comics

Published on
June 30, 1995
Last updated
May 27, 2015

The country's first chair of comedy is being proposed for Lancaster University to accompany a national archive devoted to British humour. Lancaster cultural history professor Jeffrey Richards has backed the idea, provided that funds are generated by the project to build a National Museum of Comedy at Morecambe.

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