I’m Not Being Funny review – there’s laughter through tears in emotional dark comedy

Bush theatre, London Married aspiring standups confront on stage what they’re concealing in real life, in Piers Black’s compelling two-hander Standup is performance in extremis, self-projection in the raw – and has long appealed to dramatists interested in the faces we present to and conceal from one another. That seems to be the territory of I’m Not Being Funny, too, as we meet two young parents prepping in their living room for a forthcoming open mic night. Peter wants to tell corny jokes; Bil