The Comedy Carpet Blackpool: The Making of a World Class Monument to Comedy

Laid out in front of Blackpool Tower, the British home of variety for more than a hundred years, the Comedy Carpet is the largest work of public art in Europe. Thousands of jokes and quotations from the early days of variety to the present day are set in 2200 square metres of granite and concrete. From Tommy Cooper, Mae West and Bob Hope to Frank Carson, Groucho Marx and Ricky Gervais, the Comedy Carpet is a unique celebration of comic genius A treasure trove of comic cultural history, with two essays, one by the artist and the other by best-selling author Graham McCann writing about the relationship between Blackpool and comedy, the book’s jacket also unfolds to make a poster.