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Nov. 20th, 2007 03:34 pmIt seems like a long time since Thursday.
Stewart Lee's 41st Best Comedian In The World show: repeating a joke so many times as to be not so much flogging a dead horse as talking it to death, flogging it, chucking it in to a big pit and throwing rocks onto it. And then digging it up later and giving it a good kicking. Misanthropy; lying on the floor with his back to the audience; failing to dress up as an insect; and the least punchy punchline ever (stuffed giraffe wtf.) God, he's funny. (And, oh yes, he referred to this review's comparing him to "a squashed Albert Finney", where it used to be a crumpled Morrisey, and obviously squashing is a more destructive thing to happen to someone...)
(OMG Robin Ince was there and I talked to him and I never talk to people I'm a fan of because what do you say? But he was waiting for his mate to get back from the bar so I reckoned a quick fangirl wouldn't be too annoying and I said how much I liked the podcasts and he said they might be doing some more "but they're ever so expensive, each one's nearly £200!", and he was thinking of a show-and-tell sort of live show, and altogether was just very enthusiastic and nice and it was terrifying but very cool. And Stew referred to him in passing in the show. Sweet.)
Shakespeare For Breakfast- I liked it, although most of the audience were lukewarm; a nice mixture of quotations, meta, silly situations, pop-culture refs and horseplay. And the King Lear and Macbeth were both pretty cute.
Oh, yeah, and the work thing I was attending in the daytime was fairly useful :) Now I have the fun of deciphering my notes for colleagues.
Stewart Lee's 41st Best Comedian In The World show: repeating a joke so many times as to be not so much flogging a dead horse as talking it to death, flogging it, chucking it in to a big pit and throwing rocks onto it. And then digging it up later and giving it a good kicking. Misanthropy; lying on the floor with his back to the audience; failing to dress up as an insect; and the least punchy punchline ever (stuffed giraffe wtf.) God, he's funny. (And, oh yes, he referred to this review's comparing him to "a squashed Albert Finney", where it used to be a crumpled Morrisey, and obviously squashing is a more destructive thing to happen to someone...)
(OMG Robin Ince was there and I talked to him and I never talk to people I'm a fan of because what do you say? But he was waiting for his mate to get back from the bar so I reckoned a quick fangirl wouldn't be too annoying and I said how much I liked the podcasts and he said they might be doing some more "but they're ever so expensive, each one's nearly £200!", and he was thinking of a show-and-tell sort of live show, and altogether was just very enthusiastic and nice and it was terrifying but very cool. And Stew referred to him in passing in the show. Sweet.)
Shakespeare For Breakfast- I liked it, although most of the audience were lukewarm; a nice mixture of quotations, meta, silly situations, pop-culture refs and horseplay. And the King Lear and Macbeth were both pretty cute.
Oh, yeah, and the work thing I was attending in the daytime was fairly useful :) Now I have the fun of deciphering my notes for colleagues.
