Against all regulations the pair arranged to meet up. Roberts invited Handley to WATU’s confidential premises on a Sunday and explained the difficulty he was finding, as a ‘chairbound fellow’, in capturing the attention of his exhausted students who, after multiple trips across the Atlantic, were often in desperate need of rest and relaxation. Handley gave Roberts a number of ‘gimmicks’ to deploy with his hands. ‘He was immensely good at telling me how to talk and excite their interest’, Roberts later recalled.21 Comics transmute the angst and sorrow of their lives into comedy; they spill
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