About

Rural Comedy Review explores comedy shaped by rural settings and shared country life. We write for readers who enjoy a good story and want to notice how its place, characters and comic choices work together.

What we cover

Our subject is rural comedy as a creative tradition: tall tales, comic characters, storytelling, performance forms and the places that help shape a joke. A lane, a market gathering or a shed can do more than set the scene; the details of a place may create a misunderstanding, a pause or an unexpected turn.

Who this is for

The site is for anyone curious about why a comic story works, whether you enjoy country humour, write for fun, take part in performance or simply like noticing how a setting changes what a character can do. No specialist background is needed.

How we look

We pay attention to craft and context rather than treating rural life as a single comic type. We explain terms where useful, distinguish a familiar convention from a universal rule and make room for the variety of places and voices that rural stories can hold.